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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Merry Christmas, and to all a good night!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 Airports werd not any better back then

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (i+wP0)

3 I wouldn't mind resting like this :-D

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (qoLdL)

4 kool

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

5
ESPONJA!!11!1!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (tljrc)

6 So it's that kind of truck stop.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (ftFVW)

7 That's not a rest, Michelangelo!
That's a double sharp!!!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

8 Newborns don't react too well to their ears popping on airplanes, so it might have been a crappy flight.

Posted by: Hopefully, Not Spirit Airways at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (oftw2)

9 The Rest is one of the masterpieces of Caravaggio’s early period, datable to about 1597. The composition is divided in a completely original manner by the figure of an Angel shown from the back playing a violin. On the right, surrounded by luxuriant vegetation, is a sleeping Madonna with the Child in her arms. Both are depicted in an idealized style, and the beauty of their features is in direct contrast to the naturalistic portrayal of Saint Joseph.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

10 What's the music, I wonder.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

11 I can imagine the guy looking to his left and asking "Can I trouble you for some milk?"

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (qoLdL)

12 I guess I should have known that angels could play the fiddle.

Posted by: Charlie Daniels at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (98kQX)

13
The Angelic Side Butt is a little odd here.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (iJfKG)

14 Free bird!

Posted by: Joseph at December 24, 2025 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

15 The Angelic Side Butt is a little odd here.
Posted by: naturalfake

But we do get full backal wingery!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 24, 2025 09:34 AM (w9Wax)

16 13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”

14 When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

18 I'm a fan of this version, which hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston:

https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)

19 10 What's the music, I wonder.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

Rudolph

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

20 Rest on the Flight into Egypt

That's one roomy airplane.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

21 Was this when St. Joseph came up with the baby aspirin idea?

Posted by: Inventiveness to Infinity at December 24, 2025 09:36 AM (oftw2)

22 Caption:

Joseph:

"Don't you know anything besides "Turkey in the Straw?!?!"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

23 "I'm not playing Charlie Daniels, Joey, so just stop asking."

"Awwwwww...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:36 AM (06Hmj)

24 I love this, CBD!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

25 Had a dog named Egypt. Left little pyramids all over the house.

Posted by: Rappin' Rodney at December 24, 2025 09:37 AM (oftw2)

26 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)

27 The forbidden lick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

28 "Geez. You'd think an angel with a violin would have brought a music stand."

Posted by: Thought bubble over Joseph at December 24, 2025 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

29 Donkey is keeping a eye on the angel.

Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2025 09:38 AM (98kQX)

30 Had a dog named Egypt. Left little pyramids all over the house.
Posted by: Rappin' Rodney at December 24, 2025 09:37 AM (oftw2)

After 9 years of never doing it, our dog has decided that if we don't wake up early enough and let him out, he shits on the floor.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

31 The really good angels use their wings to do tapping riffs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:38 AM (06Hmj)

32 They're just looking for a Chinese Restaurant.

Posted by: Chow Mein at December 24, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

33 qatar airlines.

Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:39 AM (R11M+)

34 I love how Mary is so thoroughly Over It while her husband hee-haws around with their guest, and is just happy the baby is asleep.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (06Hmj)

35 qatar airlines.

Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:39 AM (R11M+)

I'm part owner now! Go islham!

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

36 They're IMMIGRANTS you MAGAts!!!!

Posted by: Leftoid at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

37 "Kabob place near me"

Posted by: Joseph typing into Google Maps at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

38 I love this painting. The angel is playing music to distract and cheer up Mary, who is sad and worried about the safety of her Baby.
Caravaggio is awesome.

Posted by: vivi at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (KruEU)

39 Great theme for the day thanks CBD

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (A0sqA)

40 Angel: What is this "Cotton Eye Joe"?

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (XuXeR)

41 Back when art was art. Lovely.

Posted by: LadyBikki at December 24, 2025 09:42 AM (ZIajN)

42 I'm a fan of this version, which hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston:

https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)

One......is the loneliest number.....

Posted by: Leftoid at December 24, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

43 Joseph is looking over the appetizer menu during the floor show.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:42 AM (kpS4V)

The Morning Report — 12/24/25

Good morning kids. It's Christmas EVE and here's wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas. I'll try to keep it as brief as I can today. First we have reports of some kind of gas explosion at a nursing home just outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County. There are two confirmed fatalities as well as numerous injuries from the explosion and subsequent partial collapse of the structure that has left many elderly residents trapped. And with another major cold front set to sock in the northeast, the timing is perfect. Prayers for all those affected, and for those involved in rescue, recovery and emergency services.

On to a couple of major stories — first up is the Supreme Court yet again riding roughshod over the will of the American people and declaring "screw your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

The Supreme Court refused to issue a stay requested by President Donald Trump after lower courts blocked him from sending the National Guard to Illinois.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued the restraining orders.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh did not join the majority’s explanation. .. Alito, with Thomas, in his dissent, slammed the Court for “unnecessarily” and “unwisely” departing from standard practice.

It is high time that President Trump drove a stake through the heart of the undead vampire that is Marbury v. Madison. Deploy the damned Guard and do what the Left have always done and instead of seeking redress in the courts, let the Democrat insurrectionist treasonous traitors waste their time with that and for once just do what needs to be done and declare "Catch Me If You Can" while axing the question "How many divisions do you have?!" And that would put the issue of that video of Mark Kelly, Abigail Spamburger et al sowing mutiny in the ranks front and center in a very glaring spotlight.

Do the safety and security of America's citizenry take precedence over respecting a completely corrupt justice system that in its behavior represents as much of an existential threat to America's citizenry as that of gang bangers, illegal aliens and drug dealers, if not more of a threat in that the lack of faith and trust in the rule of law results in total societal collapse and subsequent chaos followed shortly thereafter by tyranny. And that tyranny will be a combination hardcore Marxist/Maoist variety with more than a soupçon of Islamic influence.

Of course the latter will ultimately gain the upper hand when their useful idiot hosts/cohorts are no longer of use to them.

Speaking of which:

Minnesota Dem Tearfully Apologizes To Somalians After They Were Busted Stealing Billions — Organizer Asad Aliwed put together the event Dec. 12 at the Irshad Islamic Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie Local News reported. Democratic state Sens. Ann Johnson Stewart and Steve Cwodzinski tearfully shared their apology and offered support to a mosque full of Somalians on Friday. They were accompanied by Eden Prairie Mayor Ron Case, who ran in a nonpartisan election.

Just take a gander across the pond and perhaps through a glass and darkly at our future if we do not get a handle on all of the aforementioned and soon.

Describing British society as “low trust, highly fractured, and highly politically factionalized,” Betz warned that “civil conflict” is “increasingly inevitable.”  Then Betz directly accused U.K. authorities of hiding the true intentions behind their overhaul of domestic security forces: “What they’re concerned about is domestic conflict ... but that’s completely politically toxic for them to say so publicly, hence the convenience of saying, ‘We need to develop ... a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure.’  To say that we’re doing this against the potential of Russian attack ... is convenient as a pretext.”
. . . Fast-forward to this week, and Lane has written another piece that sharply articulates the disconnect between the government officials preparing Britain for war and the ordinary Britons who will be expected to do the fighting.  With talk of military conscription filling the airwaves and a glut of hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that war with Russia has already begun, Lane notes “the reality that many young Britons feel the government has actively sabotaged their interests and are wondering why they ought to risk their lives for such a state.”
. . . Lane highlights the argument from another op-ed in The Times in which that author correctly observes that “defending one’s homeland is a question of societal mass mobilization ... in the sense of a shared belief in the nation and the culture that is at stake, an awareness that it is at risk and a commitment to defend it.  Without a united population it is difficult to make the trade-offs necessary to transform Britain and its European allies into thoroughly indigestible military targets for our enemies.”
It is as if corporate news institutions are finally awakening to this reality: When you actively destroy national unity, shared history, tradition, and cultural heritage by importing foreigners on an industrial scale, you also destroy national identity.  Young British lads have no interest in fighting and dying for “multiculturalism.”  British parents have no interest in sacrificing their children for “diversity.”  No sane country is interested in sacrificing everything in order to preserve costly “climate change” regulations and safeguard the criminalization of so-called “hate speech.”  No patriot charges up a hill to raise an Antifa or LGBT flag in defense of censorship, government bullying, demographic replacement, and mass surveillance.

Apologies for hitting you with these stories of woe, especially on Christmas eve and at the close of Chanukah, the festival of light and a celebration of the victory over both literal and figurative darkness. Let's remember the meaning of both of these holidays and resolve to continue to live our lives fully and with hope for a better future and a renewed determination to do what we must to make it a reality.

God bless each and every one of you and let me wish you and yours a very MERRY and BLESSED CHRISTMAS.

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SECOND AMENDMENT
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FINALLY . . .
"We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present," McAuliffe wrote.
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1 Christmas Eve Gift

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:30 AM (7xrfc)

3 Damn. Missed by two minutes.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:30 AM (7xrfc)

4 For those interested, Rockwell himself is the figure to the right, smoking a pipe.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:32 AM (ufSfZ)

5 "dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases” of academia.

Translation: It works and we hate it. And they think that after the complete destruction of everything, something perfect and beautiful will take its place.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:32 AM (7xrfc)

6 Maybe it's just me, but I think the only place there should be a "mosque full of Somalians" is in, ya know, Somalia.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)

7 "God bless each and every one of you..."

Except you, AssSmith

Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 07:34 AM (Y1sOo)

8 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

9 Bastards, time to burn Marbury

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Trump's greatest strength is that he believes in the rule of law.

Which is also his greatest weakness.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:35 AM (ufSfZ)

10 4 For those interested, Rockwell himself is the figure to the right, smoking a pipe.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Kewl. Thanks.

In my best Johnny Carson voice:

"I did not know that."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:36 AM (2Ez/1)

11 mornin yall. I am about sick of the "Home for Christmas" song after the 10,100th St Jude commercial. I do feel for those kids but it seems like St Jude and Wounded Warriors spend a large portion of the money they collect on commercials and mailings.

I don't mean to be a Scrooge though and encourage making charitable contributions to your organization of choice.

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

12 9 Bastards, time to burn Marbury

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Trump's greatest strength is that he believes in the rule of law.

Which is also his greatest weakness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:35 AM (ufSfZ)

THIS. His Achilles heel is that he thinks he has mere rivals and not enemies. As well as that everyone will or will be forced to play by the same set of rules not understanding that the referees are also enemies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:37 AM (x0n13)

13 The only problem with ignoring the SC on the NG issue and sending them anyway, the GOPe would join with the Ds and vote to impeach and convict Trump and Vance, and give their boys the offices. Then everything would be over. Gorsuch basically told Trump what to do: invoke the Insurrection Act. It feels if that's what he's going to have to do, but we don't know what will happen if he does.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 07:38 AM (uQesX)

14 Zodiac and Black Dahlia killer may have been same man, amateur codebreaking whiz claims: ‘Irrefutable’

The idea's been floated before. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:38 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 24, 2025 07:39 AM (ALRQm)

16 ... hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that war with Russia has already begun...

Hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that the male population of Ukraine has been decimated and they'd like to do that with the native male population of Britain for no benefit (to said native population).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

17 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 07:40 AM (NwnyJ)

18 ‘We need to develop ... a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure.’

Its always the same throughout human history. Armed troops put their loyalty into those who write them their paychecks. (and it isn't Joey Sixpack's name signing the check)

The city police are the muscle for the city politicians.
The state police are the muscle for the state politicians
Federal law enforcement and military are the lethal force that does the will of and protects the Ruling Class.

We are only tax cows and targets.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 07:41 AM (a4flb)

19 Hey. Give us a break. We don't have anything better to do.

Posted by: Hyperventilating government officials at December 24, 2025 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

20 Is Tim Walz going to go all masculine in response to his latest bad news?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 24, 2025 07:41 AM (8CIFn)

21 Pleased to see Constitutional Rapist John Roberts is busy plying his trade again. Leaving Lady Liberty bruised and bloodied seems to be his mission in life. Wonder how often he, his boyfriend James Boasberg and the Stalinist Norm Eisenberg meet to plot their attacks on our president and our nation.

May God save us from our utterly corrupt judiciary, our corrupt intelligence agencies, our corrupt law enforcement agencies, our corrupt bureaucracy, our corrupt Congress and our corrupt, evil media.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 07:42 AM (X+xvk)

22 On Tuesday, SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Trump administration “has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” and therefore the administration’s application for a stay was denied

Announce that, as a sanctuary city, Chicago is in insurrection against the central government and send the troops in to arrest the mayor and city council and impose martial law.

Sadly, that won't happen. The government is at war with the nation and too many on our side are among the traitors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

23 no apologies needed, JJ! Thank You!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:43 AM (Cjt/F)

24 It is high time that President Trump drove a stake through the heart of the undead vampire that is Marbury v. Madison.

That is so wrong. Have you even read Marbury ?

Never mind. It’s the internet. Who cares ?

Assemble the circular firing squad.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 24, 2025 07:44 AM (zqeQL)

25 I find it mildly disturbing to see "Tim Waltz" and "masculinity" used together in the same sentence.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

26 Out: Elf On A Shelf
In: Hobo In The Basement

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

27 Happy Christmas Eve everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 07:46 AM (e64Ur)

28 In a statement to the Daily Caller, Mayor Case said that only .1% of all 80,000 Minnesota Somalis have been indicted or prosecuted in relation to the recent scandal, adding that none in his town, where the event took place, has been implicated in any of the schemes.

And then there is the:

Moreover, the scheme involved "monthly cash kickback payments to the parents of children who enrolled their children in Smart Therapy to receive autism services."

2024 $400M in claims
$200 per visit estimate
2 Million visits
I bet over 10k Simoleans were in on this 1 scam.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

29 For those who are curious: Feeding five dogs at the same time is an exercise in patience, logistics and memory. But it's entertaining.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:49 AM (7xrfc)

30 "5 "dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases” of academia.

Translation: It works and we hate it. And they think that after the complete destruction of everything, something perfect and beautiful will take its place.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:32 AM (7xrfc) "

"perfect and beautiful" meaning "absolutely subjected to our every perverse whim"
I imagine something like medieval France without Christianity or epigrams, but with lots of Caligula and Nero

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (Cjt/F)

31 hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that war with Russia has already begun...
_________

We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We have no ships, we have no men, we have no money too

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (XvL8K)

32
NO LUNCH SPECIAL TODAY

Posted by: Your Local Chinese Hole In The Wall at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (cRmBr)

33 Good morning Mr. Sefton! You may think me a contrarian but I think the Court is right on this. The States are supposed to be top dog in this system.

Tenth Amendment: States that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people.

The National Guard is part of our military.
Is there a stated right of the federal government to send any part of the military into a state without permission from that State? If the Fed Gov cannot send military personnel to a disaster area within a State unless the State requests it, then what gives Fed Gov the right to send them to perform law enforcement duties? Does that not fall under Posse Comitatus? Where is this right delegated to the Fed Gov?
I'm not a lawyer and I'm genuinely interested in understanding this. My very "not" professional opinion is that the court is right to say that Fed Gov cannot do this even to enforce federal law or support federal law enforcement officers.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 24, 2025 07:51 AM (2J/Lj)

34 Trump Makes Huge Move on Student Loan Debt, and Democrats Are Gonna Flip

Get the government out of the student loan business. If you just can't bring yourself to do that...

- Limit the amount which can be borrowed.
- Limit the interest rate required of people with accounts in good standing.
- Limit the degree choices for which the government will loan money.

I would argue that loans for medical school tuition (and probably nursing school tuition) should be interest free since both professions are in short supply and in the interest of the country. Maybe the same for science/engineering degree loans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

35 I'm going to try to limit myself to cheery posts today. So, I'll start by noting that, appropriately enough, December 24 is the birthday of Michael Curtiz, the director of White Christmas, among many other films.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ufSfZ)

36 The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Roberts of all people should be careful about leaving Trump little choice but to challenge the authority of SCOTUS. Weird because he always seemed to err on the side of caution before.

Posted by: Fen at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (QUYhr)

37 "The Trump administration is preparing to crack down on student loan defaulters starting next year. This will be interesting because you can bet Democrats are going to flip out about this. The Education Department confirmed it will begin withholding wages from borrowers who fail to pay their debts."

Student loan "forgiveness" will be center stage for the 2026 campaign with democrats.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (0N4FZ)

38 May God save us from our utterly corrupt judiciary, our corrupt intelligence agencies, our corrupt law enforcement agencies, our corrupt bureaucracy, our corrupt Congress and our corrupt, evil media.

I think there is a point where you have to consider yourself part of the Diaspora for Heritage Americans.

The US is no longer a nation, barely a country, and at best is considered an Economic Opportunity Zone.

El Salvador's Bukele showed us the way but as long as the NFL is playing a game, utter destruction of our way of life is acceptable enough that we will let it happen.

We aren't of the caliber of men who crossed the Potomac on Christmas Eve to do what needed to be done.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (a4flb)

39 I bet over 10k Simoleans were in on this 1 scam.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

Isn't Simoleon slang for dollar?

Well played sir

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (x0n13)

40 35 I'm going to try to limit myself to cheery posts today. So, I'll start by noting that, appropriately enough, December 24 is the birthday of Michael Curtiz, the director of White Christmas, among many other films.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ufSfZ)

Another Magyar!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:53 AM (x0n13)

41 If nothing comes of Fulton County’s admission, the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding.

Provided you come to the 'correct' outcome, that's always been the case. They just pretended otherwise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

42
No worries JJ....woe comes up with the sun...everyday

Posted by: qmark at December 24, 2025 07:54 AM (R91/8)

43 I've been pretty vocal about my disappointment in this administration's handling of the judicial coup. They should have forced the "constitutional crisis" on day one everyone seems to think will befall the nation if the judiciary is brought to heel.

Instead, the administration is going to wallow in the coup until 2028 when the Democrats have a chance to reclaim the levers of power and get their plan back on track.

Trump really should have forced the issue earlier. Maybe they'll figure something out anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 07:55 AM (NwnyJ)

44 The British State Needs WWIII to Stave Off Civil War

It's not designed to stave off civil war. It's designed to further weaken the nativist side.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

45 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (53oGX)

46 You been heah four owah! You go now!

Posted by: The One Local Chinese Hole In The Wall With An All You Can Eat Buffet Today at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

47 When we finally get another Dem President, which will eventually happen, will this SCOTUS ruling be obeyed and troops not be sent to enforce a totalitarian police state?

Posted by: davidt at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (Q+gd/)

48 37 Student loan "forgiveness" will be center stage for the 2026 campaign with democrats.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (0N4FZ)

Somali fraud is the student loan forgiveness of S&L scandals!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

49 The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

The Constitution was made for a self-regulating religious society. A Constitutional Republic has no enforcement mechanism in it and absolutely requires a population that largely holds to a single transcending purpose.

That population was replaced through depravity and importation of other nations (ethnicities) whose spiritual guidance is completely at odds with the influences that guided the nations's forefathers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

50 46 You been heah four owah! You go now!
Posted by: The One Local Chinese Hole In The Wall With An All You Can Eat Buffet Today at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

Watch a restaurant full of angry Jews sampede for the exits!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (x0n13)

51 Coney-Ferret is going to be a thorn in our sides for a long time. What a missed opportunity that was. The modern day Sandra Day O'Connor.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (xNHSX)

52 I am sorry to hear about Ben Sasse. I think he's a good guy and I will pray for him. I am glad, though, that his faith gives him hope.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (rZCVI)

53 A blessed and happy Christmas to all you morons as well as your families.
I’m a bit of a humbug except when it comes to the reason for the season and my grandsons.
I love this place. It helps get me through the day.
Again, Merry Christmas

Posted by: RetSgtRN at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (fMVpK)

54 I would argue that loans for medical school tuition (and probably nursing school tuition) should be interest free since both professions are in short supply and in the interest of the country. Maybe the same for science/engineering degree loans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM

Both the VA and DOD have programs that pay 100% of your schooling to become a doctor or a dentist and there are always openings for qualified candidates. Depends on the program but you generally owe 4 years of service as payback.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (0N4FZ)

55 "
We aren't of the caliber of men who crossed the Potomac on Christmas Eve to do what needed to be done."

###
That's because I crossed the Delaware.

Posted by: G. Washington at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)

56

51 Coney-Ferret is going to be a thorn in our sides for a long time. What a missed opportunity that was. The modern day Sandra Day O'Connor.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (xNHSX)

"Comin' on strong!"

- - Golden Earring Radar Love...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (x0n13)

57 Watch a restaurant full of angry Jews sampede for the exits!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

LOL, J.J.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (rZCVI)

58 So who will form the core of the British Volksturm?

It won't be pale and male.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (2GVsD)

59 58 So who will form the core of the British Volksturm?

It won't be pale and male.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (2GVsD)

Old Frothingslosh?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)

60 Once Kunte Kinte Jackson landed on the SCROTUM, their "opinions" mean nothing, yet folks will follow what they have to say like lemmings off of a cliff.

"Rule Of Law" my ass.

Posted by: Zombie Thurgood Marshall at December 24, 2025 08:00 AM (R/m4+)

61 Mornin’, All. Happy Christmas Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:00 AM (77rzZ)

62 Ask your doctor if Simoleon is right for you.

Posted by: Big Farma's Marketing Department at December 24, 2025 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

63 Sampede?

Restaurant on a sampan? Wouldn't that be a Guam event?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:01 AM (2GVsD)

64 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Merry Christmas horde! Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:02 AM (A0sqA)

65 "perfect and beautiful" meaning "absolutely subjected to our every perverse whim"

To borrow a smaller example, look at Bud Light. Steady market share, regular profit. And along came the woman who said "We need to get rid of the frat boys and bring in the gay people!" because she thought the profit would never go away.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:02 AM (7xrfc)

66

George Thoroughgood>>> Thurgood.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)

67 Somali fraud is the student loan forgiveness of S&L scandals!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

of NINJ Loans

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

68 Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:02 AM (A0sqA)

Thanks. I do pray for Israel everyday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (ix8EF)

69 I post this link every Christmas - the luscious Kellie Pickler singing "Santa Baby:"

https://tinyurl.com/543sxvxm

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (ufSfZ)

70 will this SCOTUS ruling be obeyed and troops not be sent to enforce a totalitarian police state?

No. The usual three dimwits will frame it as a "national security" issue to justify it.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (edbiH)

71 14 Zodiac and Black Dahlia killer may have been same man, amateur codebreaking whiz claims: ‘Irrefutable’

The idea's been floated before. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.

Totally different MO's. And Z was younger than the BDK would have been. Not buying this for a second.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (xNHSX)

72 When we finally get another Dem President,

Can we all agree that a Dem President either means that the American Experiment has already completely failed or will be on January 20th of that horrid year?

The point being, we know that the young Democrats will impose evil unseen since Mao, Stalin and Hitler all wrapped into one. We see on social media how much they want to murder all of us. There will be no brakes on them arranging mass murder.

That means PREVENTION is the best method, and we are getting damned close to BAMN to keep the Demonic Forces from completely taking over.

Instead of building monuments of vanity like battleships, we need to completely turn over the utterly corrupt institutions that already are killing this country more than any foreign power could ever imagine.

I assure you, though Trump is likely the best president this country will ever have, letting 600,000 Chinese "students" displace 600,000 Americans in STEM university shows me that Trump is no where near serious about MAGA. If he can't even do the small things, the big things are impossible.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)

73 62 Ask your doctor if Simoleon is right for you.
Posted by: Big Farma's Marketing Department at December 24, 2025 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

If you've been diagnosed with Bone-Apart...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)

74 Dear Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton,

https://tinyurl.com/9umyd2hz

Most sincerely,
Nayib Bukele

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (Vx9n2)

75 Boy, those Minnesota pols crying as they apologize to the Somalis are the ultimate sissy soibois. WTH is wrong with Minnesota?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

76 - Limit the amount which can be borrowed.
- Limit the interest rate required of people with accounts in good standing.

I would add "Put the colleges on the hook for the money when a student defaults."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (7xrfc)

77 “Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together.”

Posted by: C Griswald at December 24, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

78 We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We have no ships, we have no men, we have no money too
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (XvL8K)

It should be remembered that it was Boris Johnson who delivered the message to Zelensky that he should rip up the tentative agreement with Russia at that start of this whole thing and fight tot he end.

They may not want to fight but they sure want someone to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

79 That's because I crossed the Delaware.

If AI is allowed to hallucinate, so am I.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

80 ‘Nuts!.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (o2ZRX)

81 Merry Christmas Eve!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (NpAcC)

82 76 - Limit the amount which can be borrowed.
- Limit the interest rate required of people with accounts in good standing.

I would add "Put the colleges on the hook for the money when a student defaults."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (7xrfc)

The one player in the Game, with NO SKIN in the game.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

83 The VW Volksturm never made it beyond the concept car stage. Awkward styling, a quirky three cylinder diesel engine and echoes of Third Reich propaganda caused it to fare poorly with focus groups. A mere asterisk of a footnote in automotive history it's name is rarely spoken above a whisper.

Posted by: Car nerd at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)

84 Morning all, thx JJ.
The story about the possibility that the killer of the Black Dahlia and the Zodiac Killer being the same person is amazing. The thing that makes me believe it is that one of the ex government code breakers who reviewed the evidence found the the key to the Zodiac cypher was the name "Elizabeth". The Black Dahlia's name was Elizabeth Short. More work to be done but what Baber has produced is compelling

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:07 AM (2vrAX)

85 I would argue that loans for medical school tuition (and probably nursing school tuition) should be interest free since both professions are in short supply and in the interest of the country. Maybe the same for science/engineering degree loans.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
====

I was in the USSR with a guy who paid his way with his med school loans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:07 AM (A0sqA)

86 The judiciary deserves no deference.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 24, 2025 08:07 AM (ehY6c)

87 Student loan "forgiveness" will be center stage for the 2026 campaign with democrats.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (0N4FZ)

I wonder how many will buy into the idea considering how many times Biden 'canceled' their loan debt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

88 80 ‘Nuts!.
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (o2ZRX)

Admiral Levine grabs crotch...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)

89 Dear Unknown Drip Under Pressure,

You can write to the President directly. He may not read the comments here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (ix8EF)

90 The graduates of a certain Bene Gesserit college fuck us over again.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (qFwJc)

91 "Mayor Wu: You Can’t Talk About Boston’s Achievements Without Mentioning Somalis"

Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?

types/deletes

Posted by: Gref at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (5rh/l)

92 Next the Black Dahlia killer will be responsible for the disappearance of Judge Crater.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:09 AM (2GVsD)

93 When we finally get another Dem President, which will eventually happen, will this SCOTUS ruling be obeyed and troops not be sent to enforce a totalitarian police state?
Posted by: davidt at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (Q+gd/)

There won't be a lower court ruling forbidding it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

94 Merry Christmas and God Bless you and your family, JJ. Thank you for all you do!

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 24, 2025 08:10 AM (EES2L)

95 Speaking of nursing school, one of my offspring just finished it last week.
Snoopy dance.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)

96 91 "Mayor Wu: You Can’t Talk About Boston’s Achievements Without Mentioning Somalis"

Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?

types/deletes
Posted by: Gref at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (5rh/l)

It's a slippery slope...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

97 The Korean place on our corner is open Christmas so we are going to go for lunch, as is traditional for our people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)

98 It's a slippery slope...Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

Haaaaaa

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (06Hmj)

99 Deport all Somalis. (Well, that Ayaan Hirshi Ali chick can stay.)

Deport all Haitians.

Deport all Afghans.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)

100 "The VW Volksturm never made it beyond the concept car stage. Awkward styling,"

"Awk"ward styling is an understatement. It's penguin-like shape was the result of Big Penguin's influence on the German automobile industry.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

101 What truly killed the VW Volksturm was the liability issues arising from the factory installed Panzerfaust.

American lawyers, they kill everything.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:13 AM (2GVsD)

102 "Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?"

Fewer stray animals?

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

103 "You Can’t Talk About Boston’s Achievements Without Mentioning Somalis"

Literally beyond parody. If you asked me a week ago if this was real or The Babylon Bee, I'd have guessed The Bee.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:13 AM (xNHSX)

104 Today Is National Eggnog Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

105 Mayor Wu, making AI Deep Fake more believable.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:14 AM (2GVsD)

106 97 The Korean place on our corner is open Christmas so we are going to go for lunch, as is traditional for our people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)

I hear the view from their rooftop is killer!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)

107 First they came for the Trade Unionists and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Somalis and I didn't say anything because I was helping to refuel the helicopters.

Posted by: Knee Mauler at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

108 The one player in the Game, with NO SKIN in the game.
Posted by: r hennigantx

I stand by the assertion I made a while back: If colleges were forced to pay back the money when students default, in less than 24 hours tuition would drop to 1960s levels and a lot of worthless majors would be gone.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (7xrfc)

109 Benedict Roberts gonna Benedict Roberts.

Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (UnA8+)

110 Most sincerely,
Nayib Bukele
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (Vx9n2)

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I'm developing feelings for that guy Like I've got for Javier Milei.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (A0sqA)

111 In that case, his bond was set at $15,000 but a nonprofit group called The ~~Bail~~ Murder Death Kill Project reportedly paid some of the bond a few days later and he was released.

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

112 58 So who will form the core of the British Volksturm?

It won't be pale and male.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (2GVsD)

Nobody expects the Frisian Restoration

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (pIfcn)

113 The one player in the Game, with NO SKIN in the game.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

The one who raises tuition/fees/etc willy-nilly because the system will shove money into the hands of 'technically' adults who're mortgaging their lives for bullshit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

114 Posted by: Knee Mauler at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

"Stauffenberg French Bread Pizza"

- - Karl's Donuts

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (x0n13)

115 97 The Korean place on our corner is open Christmas so we are going to go for lunch, as is traditional for our people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)

Korean Rooftop Diner
I would go there

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

116 Next the Black Dahlia killer will be responsible for the disappearance of Judge Crater.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:09 AM (2GVsD)

The most recent theory about Crater is that he was murdered (I don't recall the reason) and his body buried in an abandoned lot in Atlantic City.

Oddly enough, when construction took place in the location in the 1970s, a number of bones were found, but of course there was no way to determine whom they belonged to, so they were simply left and covered over by massive amounts of concrete.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (ufSfZ)

117 Speaking of nursing school, one of my offspring just finished it last week.
Snoopy dance.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
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Mazel tov quite an achievement and a great career.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (A0sqA)

118 Korean Rooftop Diner
I would go there

The view is to die for?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (2GVsD)

119 Deport all Somalis. (Well, that Ayaan Hirshi Ali chick can stay.)

Deport all Haitians.

Deport all Afghans.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)

Deport all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

120 Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

See me @ 106

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

121 109 Benedict Roberts gonna Benedict Roberts.

Posted by: XTC

Precisely. John Roberts is to the Constitution what Bill Clinton was to Juanita Broadrick.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (X+xvk)

122 The Korean place on our corner is open Christmas so we are going to go for lunch, as is traditional for our people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)

I thought it was only Chinese.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

123 That figures, Atlantic City was a place where many dreams went to die.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:19 AM (2GVsD)

124 I hear the view from their rooftop is killer!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)
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I'm counting on it. They're on the corner so they have 270 degrees LOS

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)

125 Some Christmas Eve mirth: This Aged Great! takes on a Bewitched 1970 Christmas episode featuring blackface. A whole lot of blackface. Like, a metric shit-ton of blackface.

I almost hurt myself LMAO!

https://tinyurl.com/2xdksp2u

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (xNHSX)

126 I thought it was only Chinese.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)
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These are hard times. Decisions needed to be made.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)

127 The Boston mayor is obviously a blithering idiot, but her ridiculous statement is to me emblematic of panic. Listen as the Dem leader, both local and national, are making increasingly insane statements. Walz, Wu, Newsom ,Hochul are nuts on the local level, while Warren, Schumer etal are crazed in the national stage. 2026 will be nuts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (2vrAX)

128 The only drawback about the Panzerfaust was that it fausted 'em instead of werfing 'em.

Posted by: Nebelwerfer What Werfs Nebel at December 24, 2025 08:21 AM (VAajM)

129 Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)
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That disappearing space in your nic has been triggering my OCD for weeks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:21 AM (A0sqA)

130 This is sad news

The little California girl, Melodee Buzzard, who had vanished while taking a trip with her mother has been found. In Utah authorities found her bullet riddled body. DNA linked the body to her mother Ashlee. Ashelle has now been arrested.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:22 AM (2GVsD)

131 1. SCOTUS will never relinquish the power it gave itself via Marbury vs Madison.

2. Politicians like SCOTUS relieving them of having to face the voters on certain issues.

Posted by: davidt at December 24, 2025 08:23 AM (Q+gd/)

132 Sorry, I misread the headline about the gigantic protoplanetary disk.

Posted by: Secretary of Trans. Emeritus at December 24, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)

133 Today is Anthony Fauci’s birthday. Hope the Grim Reaper comes to his party.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:24 AM (77rzZ)

134 A local Fed government employee was sentenced to two years in prison for her part in a $66m SNAP fraud. Arlasa Davis of Gardiner NY, near New Paltz , was nailed with a few others and I believe she is the first to be sentenced.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:24 AM (2vrAX)

135 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 24, 2025 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

136 We've got a Korean BBQ place nearby. Never seen anybody there and assumed it was a mob front.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (XvL8K)

137 Next the Black Dahlia killer will be responsible for the disappearance of Judge Crater.
Posted by: Anna Puma

DB Cooper was the Zodiac killer. He killed the Black Dahlia lady because she figured it all out and tried to blackmail him. He also knew where Jimmy Hoffa was.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (2J/Lj)

138 The Writ of Habeus Corpus is not a right. It's a privilege.

Trump should go Abe Lincoln on the rogue judges.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)

139 There are several BBQ in the area but the one on our corner is really great. It is always jam-packed but most of the Korean people here are very religious so I can't imagine it will be busy on Christmas.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)

140 Trump should go Abe Lincoln on the rogue judges.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)

Sure. And, as I said above, that would give the GOPe cucks the stated reason to support and vote to impeach Trump and Vance. Then we'd lose everything.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

141 5 Years Too Late, Fulton County Proves Trump’s Call To Raffensperger Right

1. We know who staffed to precincts.
2. We know when the precinct opened.
3. We know when the machine was turned on.
4. We know who turned the machine on.
5. We know was user and pw was used.
6. We know how many ballots were ran that day.

I would think any 2 year law student could write the prosecution's case.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

142 Jimmy Hoffa was laid to rest under Brendan Byrne Arena.

This is known.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (A0sqA)

143 We've got a Korean BBQ place nearby. Never seen anybody there and assumed it was a mob front.

Probably a NORK spook operation. Counting how many Hyundai's go by and reporting it to their Great Leader so he can plan accordingly.

Posted by: Kim Jong Be Illin at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (R/m4+)

144 Trump should go Abe Lincoln on the rogue judges.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)

Send them Mattress shopping?

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

145 ...Then we'd lose everything.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

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We are about to lose everything in any case.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (A0sqA)

146 I was trawling through the TCM website to see what they had scheduled for the next few days. Nothing I particularly want to watch, although they are showing Ben-Hur on Saturday afternoon and Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible at 2.45am Monday morning.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (ufSfZ)

147
‘We need to develop ... a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure.’

Let me translate. "We like the ragheads and not you normie white people. The new militia is for putting you extremist rat bastrads down like the colonialist scum you are. Now worship your muzzie overlords like you're supposed to or we'll make you watch while they rape your 12 year old daughter again."

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (QVmho)

148 I have a prayer request, please. I am having an ailment since yesterday. Unlike other pastors and priests who have big churches, I only have one service tonight, but I'd like to be able officiate at it. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (tmOJm)

149 The state of Georgia should be forced to pay Rudy Giuliani back every sent that he paid in the BS lawsuits

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (2vrAX)

150 I guess this might be a happy ending.

The father at KSU who shot and killed one student while wounding another, remember him? He went to KSU to help move his son out due to 'bad blood' in the dorm and was attacked.

A grand jury has refused to indict Jacob Bard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (2GVsD)

151 Go ahead. Impeach Trump. Then we get Vance.

LOL. I am not skeered.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (qFwJc)

152 I don't mean to be a Scrooge though and encourage making charitable contributions to your organization of choice.
Posted by: fd

I am more skeptical than you. I've been a Helen Keller Skeptic for decades and have found sound evidence that both Caleb and Alec from the Shriners Hospital ads are AI creations. Peddling "adowable" blankets is great cover, but I'm sending all mine back. My eyes are wide open now.

Posted by: Felix With A Fez at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (oftw2)

153 Christmas blessings for Fen

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

154
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

LMAO! At almost 12:30 AM, President Trump is up running a poll on who is the WORST late night host

So who is it?!

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, or Jimmy Fallon?!

https://tinyurl.com/bdhrvcwe

Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

155 Years ago, on Christmas Eve my wife and I were out and about when we came across an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet in a strip mall. We were hungry.

The joint was rocking. Packed.

It took me a little while to put two and two together...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (NwnyJ)

156 144 Trump should go Abe Lincoln on the rogue judges.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)

I've called for this from the beginning. It will come. It must, if he wishes to be successful, i.e., save the nation. It's just where we are.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)

157 Prayers up for dear Fen.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (qFwJc)

158 The US is no longer a nation, barely a country, and at best is considered an Economic Opportunity Zone.

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No, this is more than a free trade zone - much more. That would frankly be preferable to what we have.

What we actually have is a bunch of countries here. It's far too big and too diverse in too many ways to be realistically described as a nation state, though its ruling class necessarily insists on pretending it is.

Because what they are doing is holding together a colonial empire through force and fraud from the ruling city-state of DC, and a handful of its provincial capitals in the vast landmass this little shitstain of a swamp dominates.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

159 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (tmOJm)
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A prayer for complete and immediate healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:33 AM (A0sqA)

160 Cent not sent, damn autocucumber

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:33 AM (2vrAX)

161 Feel better Fen. Prayers up. You'll handle the service

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:34 AM (2vrAX)

162 158 What we actually have is a bunch of countries here. It's far too big and too diverse in too many ways to be realistically described as a nation state, though its ruling class necessarily insists on pretending it is.

Because what they are doing is holding together a colonial empire through force and fraud from the ruling city-state of DC, and a handful of its provincial capitals in the vast landmass this little shitstain of a swamp dominates.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

My opinion :

We are little more than a Welfare Administration District for the entire rest of the world.

Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:34 AM (UnA8+)

163 Prayer up, Fen.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

164 So who is it?!
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, or Jimmy Fallon?!

It can be three things.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:35 AM (xNHSX)

165 >>> ... administration has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois...

Fairly puts the burden Federal Government to show legal authority FIRST to do 'x' in Illinois.

Malicious Compliance seems to be in order.

- Here's the law to collect Federal taxes in Illinois. Do so.
- Here's the law to arrest illegal aliens on Illinois. Do so.
- Here's the law to arrest politicians engaging in fraud Illinois. Do so.

Do anything beneficial?
Sorry, priorities, not gonna bother with finding some law giving authorization to send Illinois federal tax dollars for anything.

Illinois may think it knows there is a law saying send the money, but President says the "administration"identify the law before doing anything in Illinois.

Test case - Funding O'Hara.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:35 AM (/lPRQ)

166 I do hope you feel better soon, Fen.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (ufSfZ)

167 We are about to lose everything in any case.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (A0sqA)

You're right. I read the "don't worry, we'll get out of this!" posts, but, if people read that certain Book, it quite clearly spells out that things will get worse eventually. Maybe we'll see returns a few times to slow it down, but there are too many people working against what we stand for all over the world, that someday they will have their way. How long it will last, who knows?

What's the option? The Pinochet Gambit won't work because no one wants to do that kind of stuff. The only thing we can do is try to put forward our ideas, and make those of us on our "side" do the right thing even if for the wrong reasons.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (uQesX)

168 Best wishes for you Fen

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (2GVsD)

169 Sending prayers, Fen.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

170 What we actually have is a bunch of countries here. It's far too big and too diverse in too many ways to be realistically described as a nation state, though its ruling class necessarily insists on pretending it
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California is the Soviet Union in so many ways.
1. One Party State (including judiciary)
2. Crushing Regulation
3. Government Distorted Markets
4. Economic Rents and Sinecures for Nomenklatura
5. Economically Bifurcated Population

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:37 AM (A0sqA)

171 Mohammad Javad Fazel Lankarani, head of the Jurisprudential Center of the Pure Imams, said that Balagh-e-Mobin was a “checkmate move” that was a cornerstone of an “Islamic civilization-building” plan. It would, he said, involve “presenting religion completely to society at all levels – from belief and ethics to politics and social life.” This would involve not only training preachers to spread Islam, but also raising up “soft war officers” who would not only “function as a defensive network against Western ideas,” but also conduct “offensive information operations.”

So what percent (I am guess 99.5%) of pro Iran and pro Hamas news is fake news put out by their 40,000 keyboard warriors.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

172 At my appointment with my Jewish dentist last week, she mentioned putting up her Christmas tree. I didn't say anything but she must have seen a "look" pass over my face because she laughed and said her young children enjoy having a tree and decorations. I'm assuming the decorations are all secular. But, I wondered if this is a thing with some assumedly non-Orthodox Jews?

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (xNHSX)

173 In 2025, I "lent" $3,500 to a dear friend. Of course I never expected to get it back. The last $1,500 was about 3 weeks before she "up and died."

My budget for charity is somewhat overdrawn. I am writing it off, Jerry. $200 a month. So, almost all other charities are going to have to wait. By August on 2026, I will be generous again.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (qFwJc)

174 The British State Needs WWIII to Stave Off Civil War

It's not designed to stave off civil war. It's designed to further weaken the nativist side.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They need WWIII in order to get the heritage British men out of the country and hopefully dead, in order to help their imported mohammedans to have better access to the women and children they want to molest.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (0U5gm)

175 There was a Vietnamese place around here that was just a mob front.

In other words, it was a pho restaurant.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (77rzZ)

176 What's the option? The Pinochet Gambit won't work because no one wants to do that kind of stuff. The only thing we can do is try to put forward our ideas, and make those of us on our "side" do the right thing even if for the wrong reasons.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (uQesX)
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I support because
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)

177 It is suggested that Trump could use the Insurrection Act.

I think Trump fears the response.

But, that's just delaying the inevitable:
The Dem areas are already in a state of open defiance. Every delay or muted response only invites more.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 08:40 AM (HXT0k)

178 women and children they want to molest.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (0U5gm)

raping the women and children that good Brits will not.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

179 Test case - Funding O'Hara.

What has Katie Scarlett done this time?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:41 AM (ufSfZ)

180 "Mayor Wu: You Can’t Talk About Boston’s Achievements Without Mentioning Somalis"

Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?

types/deletes
Posted by: Gref

Madam Wu gave pandering whores a bad name with that speech.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:41 AM (/lPRQ)

181 176 I support because
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)

That's all well and good, but now let's see you strongarm the people who actually have the power to do it into doing it.

Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:42 AM (UnA8+)

182 I support because
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)

Who really wants to be the person to shove someone out of the helicopter? I'd say it's probably not that easy of a thing to do.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)

183 The SC ruling was temporary albeit annoying. Chicago will therefore suffer illegal alien criminals and gangbangers doing their thing. Way to go Conehead and Lardass

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (2vrAX)

184 172 At my appointment with my Jewish dentist last week, she mentioned putting up her Christmas tree.
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Speaking of Jewish dentists:

https://youtu.be/u8QMIYv-y98

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)

185 Thank you JJ

Merry Christmas to you all.

I am truly home for Christmas this year… at the home of my elderly parents and feeling wistful this morning wondering how many more such Christmases might the good Lord grant. The years do fly by….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (zbzbo)

186 Have a great day, everyone.

May you all soon be ensconced with family, friends, and the true spirit of Christmas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

187
Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?

Can you name any Somali responsible for any achievement?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 08:44 AM (tgvbd)

188 Okay that blackface Christmas special was awful, and hilarious!
It’s easy to forget how much really bad stuff used to be broadcast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 08:44 AM (FvUgT)

189 There aren't enough Jews around here to fill two tables in the Chinee Restaurant. They better hope for some help from the goyim.

Posted by: Wi Tu Lo at December 24, 2025 08:45 AM (oftw2)

190 Okay that blackface Christmas special was awful, and hilarious!
It’s easy to forget how much really bad stuff used to be broadcast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 08:44 AM (FvUgT)

Still, better than today?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:45 AM (uQesX)

191 But, I wondered if this is a thing with some assumedly non-Orthodox Jews?
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (xNHSX)
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All my mixed family always put up a tree.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:45 AM (9ipOP)

192 I think Trump fears the response.
But, that's just delaying the inevitable:
The Dem areas are already in a state of open defiance. Every delay or muted response only invites more.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 08:40 AM (HXT0k)

All true. Trump is a meliorating figure at heart. He wants the system to work.

I'm no historian, but recently read The Demon of Unrest and noted how Lincoln was slow to grasp the extent of the South's passion for insurrection.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)

193 There's two people not looking at the guy who's returned home. The kid in the yellow plaid shirt, and the guy in the top left corner wearing the red tie. They're both looking somewhere else. Probably the neighborhood divorcee flashing her boobs. I mean, look that those two guys expressions....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:47 AM (uQesX)

194 the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding."

Ok, that's funny right there. As if election "laws" ever mattered.

Right, Boss Tweed?

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

195 >>Can you name any Somali responsible for any achievement?

There's that guy who arose from poverty to become the captain of the Maersk Alabama.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)

196 We don't need no stinkin' habeas corpus!

Posted by: The ghost of A. Lincoln at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

197 Racism considerations aside, I’ve always found blackface to be incredibly creepy. Even worse than clowns.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

198 There's that guy who arose from poverty to become the captain of the Maersk Alabama."

I'm the captain now!

*splat*

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

199 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Horde.

Justice Barrett being from Indiana and was seated on the 7th circuit in Chicago, stabbed us in the back on the National Guard. Roberts is Roberts, but Barrett with marxist pig Pritzker. sighhh

Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

200 I have never seen blackface in person. There is a picture of Ted Danson that I saw.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:50 AM (qFwJc)

201 I'm just doing the best I can with what I've got.

Posted by: The neighborhood divorcee flashing her boobs at December 24, 2025 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

202 What we actually have is a bunch of countries here.

I disagree on categorizing any of these "bunch of" as countries. Countries have defined boundaries, a functional legal system, relatively sound currency and diplomatic recognition.

I see Chicago, LA, Illinois, NYC, Charlotte, Houston, California, etc. as breakaway regions, fiefdoms or de facto autonomous zones headed by warlords.

A warlord exercises decentralized military, political and economic control over an area that emerges when the preëxisting government is weak, absent or collapsed.

I would categorize the profoundly in debt FedGov, decentralized and ruled by District Judges, various Deep State bureaucrats and IC operatives which provides the weak, absent or collapsed legitimate government that allows for Chicago and NYC to be a warlord's fiefdom.

We are there.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)

203 Barrett went to the Bene Geseritt college.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (qFwJc)

204 That's all well and good, but now let's see you strongarm the people who actually have the power to do it into doing it.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:42 AM (UnA8+)

Who really wants to be the person to shove someone out of the helicopter? I'd say it's probably not that easy of a thing to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)
====

Hmmm. The left seems to have plenty of people to do their dirty work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (9ipOP)

205 Illinois is going to lost most of their political clout in D.C when Durbin retires next year. Trump's team will subtly reduce their $ on many projects

Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)

206 Justice Barrett being from Indiana and was seated on the 7th circuit in Chicago, stabbed us in the back on the National Guard. Roberts is Roberts, but Barrett with marxist pig Pritzker. sighhh
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

Barrett is awful, a disastrous pick.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (WHfpM)

207 202. Exactly. Like the old Greek City states

Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

208 stabbed us in the back on the National Guard"

Nah. IMHO, someone in the administration tried to cut corners, and got called out on doing so. Sort that out first, then go. I'm not going to light hair on fire over this...

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

209
I support because
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter
Posted by: San Franpsycho
=====
Who really wants to be the person to shove someone out of the helicopter? I'd say it's probably not that easy of a thing to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I'll do it, and I'll sleep peacefully at night afterwards. Those socialist asshoes will attempt to do it to me, so I'm simply returning the favor when shit starts.

God help the left if someone ever rips this bandaid off. I cannot be alone in my thoughts and emotions.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (QVmho)

210 Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?

Can you name any Somali responsible for any achievement?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

There's BroFo.
But that is not a real name.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (/lPRQ)

211 After the horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia has found a way to prevent mohammedan attacks: a new online hate law that punishes people for noting that mohammedans attack Jews and Christians, and is also working to further restrict gun rights of those who criticize mohammedans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (0U5gm)

212 Bif, I'm right there with ya.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 08:54 AM (sDNVV)

213 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Haha, the same tipster who claimed Trump sexually assaulted an underage girl also accused Hillary of being behind the Oklahoma City bombing.

Now the left treats any nut who calls the FBI like a credible source.

https://tinyurl.com/tccf6524

Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

214 Who really wants to be the person to shove someone out of the helicopter? I'd say it's probably not that easy of a thing to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)

Recruit on college campuses and tell them that you're only executing Jews. Lines will be out the door.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

215 206. Rumor I heard, is that Collins , Murk, and Graham told Trump that they wanted to fill Ginsberg's seat after the 2020 election. McConnell got them to agree to the safe pick in Barrett. Donald had no choice

Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

216 Prayers for former Senator Ben Sasse, who has advanced cancer. I did not realize he voted to impeach Trump

Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

217 Racism considerations aside, I’ve always found blackface to be incredibly creepy. Even worse than clowns.
Posted by: Bulg

Bing up some pics of -
Ati-Atihan Festival

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:56 AM (/lPRQ)

218 Australia has found a way to prevent mohammedan attacks"

They misspelled "prevent backlash against murdering cultists"

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:57 AM (XuXeR)

219 After the horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia has found a way to prevent mohammedan attacks: a new online hate law that punishes people for noting that mohammedans attack Jews and Christians, and is also working to further restrict gun rights of those who criticize mohammedans.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (0U5gm)

Same dealio as the Somalians.

The problem isn't the Somalis criminality and corruption.

The problem, according to Our Betters, is that you noticed it.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2025 08:57 AM (iJfKG)

220 > What we actually have is a bunch of countries here.
---------
I see Chicago, LA, Illinois, NYC, Charlotte, Houston, California, etc. as breakaway regions, fiefdoms or de facto autonomous zones headed by warlords.
=======
aka "The Balkans"

We've been heading down this path for decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 08:58 AM (NwnyJ)

221
There's BroFo.
But that is not a real name.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (/lPRQ)

____________

Sad to say, if a Somali is notable, it's for a wholly negative reason.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 08:58 AM (tgvbd)

222 McConnell got them to agree to the safe pick in Barrett. Donald had no choice

Barrett is there to protect the Deep State and to collect children from across the globe for her picture albums.

Posted by: The SCROTUM will protect you at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (R/m4+)

223 I applaud our President for stopping the blasted, stupid, money laundering, floating, wind turbines! MAGA!

Posted by: Fudgie The Whale at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

224 200 I have never seen blackface in person. There is a picture of Ted Danson that I saw.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:50 AM (qFwJc)

I have about 67 or 68 in Little Rock at the Jaycees fundraiser.
I was 6 or 7.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

225
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (tljrc)

226 223 I applaud our President for stopping the blasted, stupid, money laundering, floating, wind turbines! MAGA!
Posted by: Fudgie The Whale at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

Denied !!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (VE6XX)

227
"I’ve always found blackface to be incredibly creepy. Even worse than clowns."

You get used to it.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxwj98v

Posted by: Ralph Northam at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)

228 Barrett is awful, a disastrous pick.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (WHfpM)
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LOL. The vitriol against Barrett shows just how totally spoiled conservatives have become. She actually voted to overturn Roe and has been solid on the 2A. Oh, I know, she's not perfect, and everything has to be perfect, and even when we win, we have to cry because that's how the movement is today.

Perhaps you'd like another Souter? Or Sandra Day O'Connor?

Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

229 And thus, as the carol proclaims, "a weary world rejoices". At least the ones that remember what's worth believing.

And a weary BroTim rejoices as well.

Merry Christmas to all.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (OUMaO)

230 Merry Christmas to all."

And to you, too!

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (XuXeR)

231 197 Racism considerations aside, I’ve always found blackface to be incredibly creepy. Even worse than clowns.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

Now do Pink Face.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

232 Some of our participating Carvel dealers may close early because it's Christmas Eve, but Wednesday is still Sundae here. All Sundaes half-price!

Posted by: Tom Carvel, Creator of Cookie-Puss at December 24, 2025 09:01 AM (oftw2)

233 I’ve always found blackface to be incredibly creepy. Even worse than clowns."

Send in the Clowns!

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

234 aka "The Balkans"

We've been heading down this path for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 08:58 AM (NwnyJ)
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Um, they can't feed themselves. They'll capitulate within hours.

Here I thought this would be a jovial crowd. Silly me.

Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 24, 2025 09:02 AM (ZOv7s)

235
I have about 67 or 68 in Little Rock at the Jaycees fundraiser.

I was 6 or 7.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM

6 7!!!

DRINK!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:02 AM (tljrc)

236 Perhaps you'd like another Souter? Or Sandra Day O'Connor?

We need people who know what time it is.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)

237 Lol, that sock was quite persistent.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (ZOv7s)

238
I see Chicago, LA, Illinois, NYC, Charlotte, Houston, California, etc. as breakaway regions, fiefdoms or de facto autonomous zones headed by warlords.

__________

When I moved here in 1984, Houston was a city that actually worked. It was run from the Petroleum Club and run pretty well.

When I came back in 2008, it was well on the road to ruin. Now, eight years of the Moron Mayor and the Teen Commissar have finished the job.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (tgvbd)

239 You can't sing Dem Golden Slippers without blackface, can you?

Posted by: Fisk Jubilee Singers at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (oftw2)

240 Lol, that sock was quite persistent.

I kind of liked it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)

241 Here I thought this would be a jovial crowd."

Well, I'll be at the Waller Buc-ee's later on, so yeah - oh joyous day!

Weeeeeee!

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (XuXeR)

242 I'm no historian, but recently read The Demon of Unrest and noted how Lincoln was slow to grasp the extent of the South's passion for insurrection.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)

W.T. Sherman was about the only one who really got it from the start. Early on, he said that there were about 300,000 men in the south who passionately supported secession, and that all 300,000 were going to have to killed before the passion for it would die down.
Ended up being pretty close to southern death totals by the end of the war.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:05 AM (FvUgT)

243 Mmmm... Christmas Eve brisket!

Posted by: Buc-ee's fans everywhere at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)

244 We need people who know what time it is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
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We need the attitude of gratitude. After decades of bizarre and twisted legal contortions we are finally getting some actual Constitutional rulings. I'll take the wins as they come and celebrate them, because they are in fact quite significant.

There's also the fact that this sort of judicial insurrection is completely unprecedented. We'll see how it plays out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)

245 Bing up some pics of -
Ati-Atihan Festival
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Trust me, it's like a Christmas thing.
Santo Nina and all.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (/lPRQ)

246 The house is rocking to"Santa Claus is coming in a Boogie Woogie Choo ChoTrain".

Merry Christmas to the Horde

Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV)

247 Since we’re celebrating Christmas Eve, I’d like to point out another (less important… but still important) miracle: Donald Trump winning in 2016, 2020 and 2024… all miracles in their own way. In retrospect even the theft in 2020 is giving us the much more effective Trump 2.0.

Just imagine a world where he never won and realize the Almighty has given us at least a temporary reprieve from the current UK experience…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (RmIP+)

248
Sorry, I forgot the six years of the Carpet Muncher.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (tgvbd)

249 It was run from the Petroleum Club and run pretty well."

Give credit where due - the Bush family supported the "republican" push across Harris county, but their influence took a hit w/Jr, then cratered with !Jeb!... and then they turned tail completely, and left the local GOP in the lurch. That's when I lost any remnant of respect for the Bush family... screw them all.

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

250 244 We need people who know what time it is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)

Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (FvUgT)

251 Power out in van nuys. Grumble. Heavy rain.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (BEfM+)

252
Bif, I'm right there with ya.
Posted by: Ben Had

{{Hugs}}

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (QVmho)

253 Mmmm... Christmas Eve brisket!"

Yep. And jerky. Lots o' jerky....

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)

254 - Christmas gifts from the dear widow.

Coffee cup with "The Hunter" (painting) wrapped around the outside of it and a brass plaque engraved with Isaiah 40:31, KJV of course, followed by "Teach me, Lord, teach me Lord, to wait."

Posted by: TeeJ at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (T08Hw)

255 The little Rascals employed blackface on only a couple occasions. Once though, when pretending to have measles, the gang painted black spots through a sieve on their faces, but used white paint on Buckwheat.

Stymie did play both Topsy and Uncle Tom in their production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Topsy on the Ice scene was very dramatic.

Posted by: Zombie Hal Roach at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (oftw2)

256 W.T. Sherman was about the only one who really got it from the start. Early on, he said that there were about 300,000 men in the south who passionately supported secession, and that all 300,000 were going to have to killed before the passion for it would die down.
Ended up being pretty close to southern death totals by the end of the war.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:05 AM (FvUgT)
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To read about Southern preparations for conflict is to realize how distant we are from a similar threat. Much of what is going on is empty posturing, pure symbolism devoid of any actual result.

The left is angry because it is so impotent, and the only thing they can destroy is themselves. Watching Chicago compete with LA to see how many people can be killed on the streets is crazy to watch.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)

257 God help the left if someone ever rips this bandaid off. I cannot be alone in my thoughts and emotions.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (QVmho)

You're not.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (ufSfZ)

258 The house is rocking to"Santa Claus is coming in a Boogie Woogie Choo ChoTrain".

By The Tractors?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:10 AM (ufSfZ)

259 I think it's twenty five or twenty six minutes to four.

Posted by: The drummer for the band Chicago squinting at the analog clock across the room at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)

260 The real reason for the drive West today tho, is the Bellville Meat Market, otherwise known as "heaven on earth", or "the garden of heavenly delights".

Meat. Vast quantities of meats.

Did I mention they sell meat?

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (XuXeR)

261 MP4, YES!!!.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV)

262 Perhaps you'd like another Souter? Or Sandra Day O'Connor?

Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

No. Another Scalia. Short of that nearly impossible standard, I was hoping for Barbara Lagoa or Raymond Kethledge.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (WHfpM)

263 Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (FvUgT)

Classic Chicago! As I was walking down the street one day…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 09:12 AM (RmIP+)

264 No. Another Scalia. Short of that nearly impossible standard, I was hoping for Barbara Lagoa or Raymond Kethledge.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (WHfpM)
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And a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and the thing that flips up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

265

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Minnesota mandates new requirement to teach ethnic studies in all K-12 schools, this must be implemented in 2026.

Students will learn

- Transgender affirmation
- Dismantle cisgender privilege
- Distrusting the nuclear family
- Black Lives Matter principals
- Watch a video about George Floyd Square produced by Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit left-wing media collective that films Antifa and Black Lives Matter rallies across the country

Yes, this is real
Cont.

https://tinyurl.com/yc68rfas

Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

266 I got my wish for a pony and the rest is history.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (sDNVV)

267 Archie Bunker was in a lodge "Menstrual Show" in blackface as the Meathead and Gloria's child was being born. He showed up at the hospital that way.

Posted by: 704 Hauser Street at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)

268 JD trains with seals
Kammie cackled on command like a trained seal

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:15 AM (gbOdA)

269 No. Another Scalia. Short of that nearly impossible standard, I was hoping for Barbara Lagoa or Raymond Kethledge.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (WHfpM)

At this point I'd settle for another Harrold Carswell.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (ufSfZ)

270 You People have disappointed Santa:
https://is.gd/JBrbTa

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (ULPxl)

271 This watch is never wrong:

https://tinyurl.com/yyx4az9m

Posted by: James Buffett at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

272 When someone posts a bond to release a prisoner, why aren't they on the hook for crimes that guy commits?

The Bail Project should get sued by victim's families.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (GhIJO)

273 new requirement to teach ethnic studies"

"I'm the captain now"?

/heh

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (XuXeR)

274 This watch is never wrong:"

When?

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:17 AM (XuXeR)

275 Well, ended another thread, did I?

Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:20 AM (XuXeR)

276 W.T. Sherman was about the only one who really got it from the start. Early on, he said that there were about 300,000 men in the south who passionately supported secession, and that all 300,000 were going to have to killed before the passion for it would die down.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yeah, the Army literally thought that Sherman was going insane because of his predictions and requests for more troops. Put him some kind fake command for a while until he calmed down.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

277 Yes, this is real
Cont.

https://tinyurl.com/yc68rfas
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

This is likely far worse for all the black kids than the not black kids.

The latter will simply get more and more Black Fatigue and shrug it all off as a retarded, laughable hoop to jump through.

The former will absorb it gladly and be fully programmed into life of uselessness and self-loathing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:21 AM (06Hmj)

278 - Transgender affirmation
Make them read the BLACK label on Lupron
- Dismantle cisgender privilege
WTF does cis even mean
- Distrusting the nuclear family
Core belief started by Opra, cut of people that you disagree with
- Black Lives Matter principals
3X more maternal and infant deaths dont matter
- Watch a video about George Floyd
Holding gun to pregnant lady belly

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:22 AM (gbOdA)

279 Wishing you an amazing holiday season Ben Had. 🤗

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 09:22 AM (IuFEo)

280 I disagree on categorizing any of these "bunch of" as countries. Countries have defined boundaries, a functional legal system, relatively sound currency and diplomatic recognition.

------

Oh, they certainly should, but for the colonial Empire thing, which can't permit that. They're just provinces for now.

That should change. And I think there's some sliver of hope it can be peaceable, but I think a full-scale sack of Washington, DC should be an exception in that event.

Persepolis style. No stone left unturned.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM (BI5O2)

281 Coney-Ferret is going to be a thorn in our sides for a long time. What a missed opportunity that was. The modern day Sandra Day O'Connor.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025

***
I love the nicknames for her. Coney-Ferret, Bony Carrot . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM (wzUl9)

282 The former will absorb it gladly and be fully programmed into life of uselessness and self-loathing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:21 AM (06Hmj)
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... and violence.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM (y1wyK)

283 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

284 The ongoing subtext in everything "education"/"academia" does that implies that being born part or all African is exactly the same as being a lunatic who can't figure their own crotch out is also... interestingly sad? Sadly interesting?

Awful.

It's just awful.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (06Hmj)

285 Sliver up to $71.86! I'm rich!

Posted by: The Loan Arranger at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (oftw2)

286 I don't have to go to or think about work for twelve days.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)

287 Merry Christmas everyone......We need some peace and happiness around here......I hope we all find it.

Praise The Lord.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

288 Sliver up to $71.86! I'm rich!
Posted by: The Loan Arranger at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM

Metal markets are now officially getting weird.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (BI5O2)

289 Sliver up to $71.86! I'm rich!

Posted by: The Loan Arranger at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (oftw2)
-

How much for a whole slice of pizza?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (y1wyK)

290 You can eat just a sliver...

Posted by: Pecan pie at December 24, 2025 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

291 Y'all can have my portion of figgy pudding.

Posted by: Not A Fan at December 24, 2025 09:27 AM (oftw2)

292 Metal markets are now officially getting weird.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (BI5O2)

I've been slowly and methodically rotating out of gold lately.

"At a certain point, you've made enough money", or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:27 AM (06Hmj)

293 I don't have to go to or think about work for twelve days.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

You're gonna have your hands full, though, trying to figure out where to put all those pear trees with partridges in 'em.

To say nothing of arranging room and board for all those ten lords a-leaping.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

294 Trending news on X:

U.S. Murders Drop Nearly 20% in 2025's First 10 Months

Can't imagine why.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:28 AM (y1wyK)

295 @WallStreetApes
Minnesota mandates new requirement to teach ethnic studies in all K-12 schools, this must be implemented in 2026.

Students will learn

- Transgender affirmation
- Dismantle cisgender privilege
- Distrusting the nuclear family
- Black Lives Matter principals
- Watch a video about George Floyd Square produced by Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit left-wing media collective that films Antifa and Black Lives Matter rallies across the country

Home school or move. Your options are limited. They will indoctrinate your children and your children will rat you out to the authorities. To the camps........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

296 I plan to focus most of my energy on dancing ladies.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 09:29 AM (2Ez/1)

297 The house is rocking to"Santa Claus is coming in a Boogie Woogie Choo ChoTrain".
*
By The Tractors?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025

***
I'd forgotten that song! A great choice for Christmas Eve!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)

298
...but I think a full-scale sack of Washington, DC should be an exception in that event.

Persepolis style. No stone left unturned.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM

there's a reason I'm building a trebuchet in the bed of my '01 F-150

the Siege of the Cities is gonna be LIT

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (tljrc)

299 Could be metals are going up partly because of the AI bubble, too.

A lot of gold, silver, and copper in computer components.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (6ydKt)

300 the Siege of the Cities is gonna be LIT
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (tljrc)

A couple thousand rednecks tailgating on a handful of major arteries for a week would bring the entire institutional "Left" to its knees.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (06Hmj)

301 The nastiest thing about Watz' rant is the demand that whites as anything less than second-class citizens is "white supremacy."

It's not suicidal empathy, it's genocidal empathy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (HXT0k)

302
nood art

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (tljrc)

303 Nobody ever thinks about us...

Posted by: Frankincense and Myrrh markets at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

304 @WallStreetApes

It’s over. Donald Trump has directed the Justice Department to investigate Democrats ActBlue

https://tinyurl.com/3befa2f6

Waiting for the arrests, trials, and sentencings.

Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (y1wyK)

305 Home school or move. Your options are limited. They will indoctrinate your children and your children will rat you out to the authorities. To the camps........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
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Huge boost to parochial schools.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)

306 "OK fine Trump can be president for life, just let my poor little Diet Cokes and Mallomars through, for the love of Gaia!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (06Hmj)

307 Nobody ever thinks about us...
Posted by: Frankincense and Myrrh markets at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (2Ez

Frankincense prices are out of control. Slovenly African agricultural practices + hugely increased demand.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (BI5O2)

308 Sliver up to $71.86! I'm rich!

Posted by: The Loan Arranger

Wow. It was like $28 four years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 09:34 AM (0U5gm)

309
A couple thousand rednecks tailgating on a handful of major arteries for a week would bring the entire institutional "Left" to its knees.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM

Amen

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:34 AM (tljrc)

310 I'm waiting for Minnesota to start charging $7.00 for a gallon of gas.

Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (G1OIb)

311 At my appointment with my Jewish dentist last week, she mentioned putting up her Christmas tree. I didn't say anything but she must have seen a "look" pass over my face because she laughed and said her young children enjoy having a tree and decorations. I'm assuming the decorations are all secular. But, I wondered if this is a thing with some assumedly non-Orthodox Jews?
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (xNHSX)

One of my fellow TV broadcast engineers was Jewish, and every year, he would string Christmas lights along the windows in the engineering shop. Great guy. He, as I, retired a few years ago, but we still get together every few months with another retired colleague at a diner for breakfast.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (5xuJ/)

312 244 We need people who know what time it is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
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We need the attitude of gratitude. After decades of bizarre and twisted legal contortions we are finally getting some actual Constitutional rulings. I'll take the wins as they come and celebrate them, because they are in fact quite significant.

There's also the fact that this sort of judicial insurrection is completely unprecedented. We'll see how it plays out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)

We need Stone-Cold Killers who will stick it right up the Left's ass and set it to explode.

Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (UnA8+)

313 - Black Lives Matter principals

You mean like taking USAID money and buying multiple homes, cars and fund international travel vacations?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (Y1sOo)

314 Meat. Vast quantities of meats.

Did I mention they sell meat?
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM

Ask if they have a beef clod. Great for smoking!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (0sNs1)

315 Merry Christmas, Horders & Horde-ettes … Sorry to be late to the party, but some things take time (like waking up). Best wishes to all of you for a Safe Christmas and a Prosecution-Free New Year. Enjoy …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (ayRl+)

Daily Tech News 24 December 2025

Top Story

Do not send to know for whom the memory shortage tolls. (WCCFTech)

Today it's Apple, whose cost for the memory in the iPhone 17 has jumped from $29 to $70.

But doesn't Apple have long-term agreements to lock in costs?

Yes. Yes they do. Some of those agreements are expiring in January.

Others expired this month.
Former Samsung executives and employees have been hit with criminal charges for leaking trade secrets on memory production to Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT. (WCCFTech)

Cool. I mean, tut tut, don't do that again.

Tech News

Intel's new Fab 52 plant in Arizona is larger and more advanced than TSMC's Fab 21, also in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)

It does not produce memory, though.
The launch of the PlayStation 6 and the Steam Machine could be delayed by soaring memory prices. (Notebook Check)

Ya think?
How AI broke the smart home in 2025. (The Verge) (archive site)

When all you have is an LLM, everything looks like a chat room.
This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask.

It's 2025, and AI still can't reliably control my smart home. I'm beginning to wonder if it ever will.
You know what this reminds me of?
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!

Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
And a second gun to shoot the first one if worse comes to worst.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: If not food, why food shaped?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 04:00 AM (KgVf3)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 04:01 AM (sAmhv)

3 Happy Christmas Eve everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

4 My phone is having issues

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

5 Morning all!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 24, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

6 Howdy all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at December 24, 2025 04:07 AM (NC/it)

7 Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that

Just wait until it won't open your garage door

Posted by: Dave Bowman at December 24, 2025 04:08 AM (jNK17)

8 Morning Horde, Happy Christmas eve.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 24, 2025 04:13 AM (aKh6S)

9 You know what this reminds me of?

Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!

I love tech but setting up a smart home from a completely dumb home seems like a lot of work for little payoff.

If the house was already "smart" I'd enjoy the convenience, I suppose,... until something breaks.

... and something always breaks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:16 AM (6ydKt)

10 And this is how I'm starting my Christmas Eve morning:

https://youtu.be/3Y71iDvCYXA

What?
I'll listen to Christmas carols later.

Maybe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:21 AM (6ydKt)

11 I'll never figure out how Elvis Costello didn't break his ankles with the way he 'dances'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:22 AM (6ydKt)

12 Up early, coffee, and then back to bed. I'm glad I have no computer building plans in 2026. I bought that mini computer and it works just fine for the price. Along with 2 desktop computers I built, prices for parts don't matter for now. Merry Christmas, I've heard more of that this year instead of Happy Holidays I heard for the last 4 years. I wonder if the new mayor of New York City will have call to prayer broadcast every hour over speakers soon.

Posted by: Colin at December 24, 2025 04:23 AM (wlQdF)

13 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 24, 2025 04:27 AM (2Ez/1)

14 You know what this reminds me of?

-------------

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do caffeine."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 04:35 AM (LgsNJ)

15 Guten morgen. Wo ist m?

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:40 AM (Hvku0)

16 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 34 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Had a bit of snow yesterday, so the ground is white. It's supposed to rain later in the week, so I can be my lazy self and not shovel.

A couple of hours' work ahead, so will be popping in and out. Might link to a couple of happy Christmas songs later on, after my first cup of tea.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 04:44 AM (ufSfZ)

17 Why are birds taking baths anyway? Who are they trying to look and smell good for? I'll tell you who: their handlers at the NSA. That's who!

Posted by: birds are an op at December 24, 2025 04:45 AM (hgvSz)

18 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:51 AM (iMotb)

19 54 degrees here, and a perfect morning for a walk.

But alas, I need to replace the kitchen faucet, due to a failed factory made compression joint on the main outlet hose.

Which means, being at the big box store as soon as they open this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:53 AM (iMotb)

20 Having everything run as a Borg in your house is great until it hasn't any power or decides not to let you into the hatch

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:53 AM (Ia/+0)

21 From fright to delight. Devotional on Luke 2:8-14. It is followed by some insights, a prayer and a question.

https://tinyurl.com/pfjf69ud

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 04:53 AM (Nx5jP)

22 So it seems that the Amazon Alexa devices have some real issues when the service is upgraded to the AI powered Alexa Plus features.

Blogs are full of comments from owners about their Alexas suddenly becoming almost useless.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:54 AM (iMotb)

23 Sometimes we get thirsty.

Posted by: The birds at December 24, 2025 04:55 AM (2Ez/1)

24 Amazon better get on the ball and get that fixed.

It doesn't take too long going without Alexa for people to eventually come to the conclusion that maybe they don't really need Alexa.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:57 AM (6ydKt)

25 On the plus side, the tp-Link Deco X60 system is finally up and running with the main unit, 5 satellite nodes, and all with ethernet backhaul.

While there is no documentation to say this...

Do NOT place your Alexa devices on the Deco's IoT network. It will not work correctly.

Use the main 2.4/5.0 network, and all will be fine.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:57 AM (iMotb)

26 Family who had fostered kids gets wonderful surprise after a difficult few months . Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/mzvnuk6y

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 04:59 AM (Nx5jP)

27 My phone is having issues

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Dialexia?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 05:00 AM (JZ+U7)

28 Deleted Alexa account years ago. Zero regrets. The phone is bad enough!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 05:01 AM (JZ+U7)

29 In theory should work all day, 2 co-workers will be at tje job, not doing what I am, but would bet the house they will be long gone by noon.

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:02 AM (Ia/+0)

30 Father and daughter sing a lovely version of "The First Noel":

https://tinyurl.com/ekx26vc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 05:02 AM (Nx5jP)

31 Kept giving wait or close as a choice instead of posting

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)

32 One of my friends had an Echo in the kitchen which he renamed Alexa and an Alexa in the living room which he renamed Echo.
Hilarity ensued.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 05:06 AM (2Ez/1)

33 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 24, 2025 05:10 AM (AN2gy)

34 The AI memory bubble is about to collapse. Because AI is a fool's gambit. Where is the payoff?

Maybe it's in the financial realm playing markets in an exchange, but I don't see it. Everything else is just more speed, more power, no intelligence. Just mindless algorithms and language engines. AI is not going to make it safer to get you Mars or to make your EV autonomous, or to make your weapon systems more lethal than they already are. Killer drones. Nice.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 05:12 AM (nljXp)

35
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)

36 Actor David Suchet reads a beautiful psalm of praise -Psalm 145:

https://tinyurl.com/3bkvaety

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 05:15 AM (rZCVI)

37 w00t

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 05:19 AM (RuTUS)

38 But it gives me obtuse answers to my arcane questions in hundredths of a second instead of tenths of a second.
So there's that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 05:22 AM (2Ez/1)

39 >>>It does not produce memory, though.

It should.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:24 AM (dK+Kv)

40 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 34 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Had a bit of snow yesterday, so the ground is white. It's supposed to rain later in the week, so I can be my lazy self and not shovel.

A couple of hours' work ahead, so will be popping in and out. Might link to a couple of happy Christmas songs later on, after my first cup of tea.

Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 04:44 AM (ufSfZ)

61 degrees right now in OKC. Gonna be a warm Christmas Eve and Christmas Day here this year.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 05:26 AM (g8Ew8)

41 Above freezing at least
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:28 AM (Ia/+0)

42 My phone is having issues

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Dialexia?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 05:00 AM (JZ+U7)

Dysphonia.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 05:28 AM (g8Ew8)

43 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:47 AM (bQ4nt)

44 Mornin' Horde.

Memory manufacturers: Not my favourite entities right now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

45 Gemini has worked great with my SmartThings enabled home.

Shrug.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 24, 2025 06:01 AM (WYStd)

46 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Fish heads. Fish heads. Roly-poly fish heads.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 24, 2025 06:02 AM (qbLEp)

47 Evening and morning to all the toilers, if any, and early risers, of which there are clearly many, on this Christmas Eve! Ace posted some good news for us yesterday, I see, so we have even more reason to be of good cheer.

61 F. and foggy here. I'm of two minds about going to work out. On one hand, good temps and no wind; on the other, fog is annoying to work out in. My eyelashes and hair get soaking wet! "Ah, suck it up, Buttercup."

The Killer Kittenz need to be fed, and I will call my oldest friend this afternoon in FL to say Merry Merry. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

48 Pixy, it is almost 12/25 there, so a happy Christmas to you and a big thanks for all you do here!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

49 15 Guten morgen. Wo ist m?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:40 AM (Hvku0)

Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.! Reporting for duty.

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:05 AM (RuTUS)

50 I have NO interest in having a "smart home." I want it, like my car, to do what I make it do (like turning on lights or braking) and only that. Sure, I want a garage door opener in my car. But that's a button press (right? I hope) and not a voice command.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

51
Good morning, Hordians. Foggy and 66 degrees here at Schloss Hadrian.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 06:08 AM (tgvbd)

52 Coffee. Cafe El Morro. Hot and sweet with a dash of milk.

(I'd make it a dash of eggnog, but I'm almost out, and Aldi didn't have any more of the non-alcoholic type yesterday. Maybe I can find some more today.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:09 AM (wzUl9)

53 (I'd make it a dash of eggnog, but I'm almost out, and Aldi didn't have any more of the non-alcoholic type yesterday. Maybe I can find some more today.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Don't know if you have a Krogers in your area but they had plenty of non alcoholic eggnog in stock when I was there a couple of days ago.

Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 06:12 AM (lJ0H4)

54 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Today is the first day of my 12 day vacation. Only two of those days require me to spend PTO hours.

I plan on doing a whole lotta nothin'.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:14 AM (ESVrU)

55 This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that.

To borrow from Schlock Mercenary: "Equipment that can't perform up to spec gets replaced. Equipment that won't perform gets abused until it will or it can't."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (7xrfc)

56 (I'd make it a dash of eggnog, but I'm almost out, and Aldi didn't have any more of the non-alcoholic type yesterday. Maybe I can find some more today.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Don't know if you have a Krogers in your area but they had plenty of non alcoholic eggnog in stock when I was there a couple of days ago.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025

***
No, no Krogers here. We have more than a few Aldi stores now; there is one I can pass by this morning. Or the Rouses, the local chain. Walmart seems to have only the stuff with the booze in it -- and in any case I do *not* want to go into a WM on Xmas Eve.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

57 Printer: PC LOAD LETTER:

Michael Bolton: *BLAM BLAM BLAM*

Posted by: 1st draft of Office Space at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (elWPN)

58 Happy Kwanzateenth!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)

59 I plan on doing a whole lotta nothin'.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:14 AM (ESVrU)

Those are the best vacations.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 06:18 AM (g8Ew8)

60 I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that.

Mr. Coffee machine with a clock/timer. Now make your own damn coffee. Or get an even older coffee pot and use the stove.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 06:19 AM (sAmhv)

61
Happy Kwanzateenth!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)

Didn't Shufflin' Joe make that a Federal holiday?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

62 The Movies! channel has all Shirley Temple flicks today. Tomorrow they will do Christmas, though, with Mrs. Santa Claus w/ Angela Lansbury, the 1970 Scrooge w/ Albert Finney, and the 1951 A Christmas Carol w/ Alastair Sim. That last is worth gathering around the TV for. The atmosphere of it, the authentic-looking clothing and sets, and Sim's performance all make it special among the adaptations.

My first acquaintance with the story, like a lot of people, I suspect, was the cartoon Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol back in the Sixties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

63 I plan on doing a whole lotta nothin'.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'm sure your kitties will be glad to spend the extra time with you.

Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (lJ0H4)

64
>Didn't Shufflin' Joe make that a Federal holiday?

Not sure. But if he did, you can be damn sure he doesn't remember it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (2Ez/1)

65 55 To borrow from Schlock Mercenary: "Equipment that can't perform up to spec gets replaced. Equipment that won't perform gets abused until it will or it can't."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (7xrfc)

To borrow from Cool Hand Luke:

Equipment that won't perform spends a night in the box.

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (RuTUS)

66 "Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise."

This is what I don't understand about transhumanist worshipers like Ray Kurtzweil. Haven't they had enough experience with technology to know that what they wish for is impossible? Imagine getting a firmware update and your legs stop working because the update bricked your locomotion subsystems. Or getting the BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) when you're hiking in the woods...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Luddite Housekeeper at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (elWPN)

67 Not a lot of Kwanza movies on the Hallmark Channel. I'm sensing an opportunity for my client!

Posted by: Kim Fields' Agent at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (R+nQW)

68 Didn't Shufflin' Joe make that a Federal holiday?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

Let's go, Brandon!!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (g8Ew8)

69 Okay; the furry thugs have been fed, and I've almost finished cup no. 2. Time to decide if I want to be lazy, or to get going for my workout.

Grrrr . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

70 67 Not a lot of Kwanza movies
Posted by: Kim Fields' Agent at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (R+nQW)

K-w-a-n-z-a-a

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:25 AM (RuTUS)

71 (To the tune of "Winter Wonderland"

"Later on, we'll perspire.
('Is that A/C? Turn it higher!')
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

72 Merry Christmas, Morons!

https://tinyurl.com/4bbppys3

And now, back to cooking.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:31 AM (X+xvk)

73 Bleah. The disgustingly warm (but not hot) conditions here will continue through Sunday; I can work out on Thursday and Friday. Christmas Eve is special. Let's take it easy this morning, whaddaya say?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)

74 Can't find any eggnog here in Dallas. I've been to three stores. Done trying. I will have to settle for a bourbon eggnog, without the eggnog. This is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:36 AM (X+xvk)

75 I’m working through Friday night. Yay!

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 06:37 AM (o2ZRX)

76 Shirley Temple eggnog.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 06:38 AM (o2ZRX)

77
Kwanzaa

a secular festival observed by many African Americans from December 26 to January 1 as a celebration of their cultural heritage and traditional values.

ORIGIN
1970s: from Kiswahili ‘matunda ya kwanza,’ literally ‘first fruits (of the harvest)’, from kwanza ‘first’.

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)

78 K-w-a-n-z-a--a

The double A is for Anti-American!

Posted by: Berkeley Professor who invented this nonsense at December 24, 2025 06:42 AM (R+nQW)

79 >>> Or getting the BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) when you're hiking in the woods...

Raccoons gotta eat, same as everybody else.

Posted by: fluffy at December 24, 2025 06:43 AM (AN2gy)

80 If you're on the Esst Coast and the sky is clear the pink sky is beautiful ! Take a look. God is quite an artist.!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 06:44 AM (1Vo6X)

81
It's not AI, it's Deep Thought. Brewing coffee is beneath its awesome brain's powers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 24, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)

82 @69/Wolfus:

Another option: Exercise yourself and the furry thugs by playing with them. The old dragging a string around and watching the cats go mental as it disappears around a corner was a fun one.

What my cats of past went absolutely bonkers for was the tear-drop tip of an antenna whip (the type that went on vehicles). Lower the tip onto the carpet and then start moving it around or spin in place and watch the cat chase it round and rouind you. Stop if/when your kitty starts panting from the exertion.

And yeah, I had to store the extra antenna whips behind a closed door for the little furnace/ac room after that otherwise I'd come home and find them scattered, and the cats looking at me like, "Why isn't it moving? Make it move!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:45 AM (O7YUW)

83 (Wikipedia)

Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett, July 14, 1941), previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American activist, author and professor of Africana studies, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:48 AM (RuTUS)

84 I plan on doing a whole lotta nothin'.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'm sure your kitties will be glad to spend the extra time with you.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (lJ0H4)
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I work from home now, so they'll still get plenty of quality time with me!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:49 AM (ESVrU)

85 80 If you're on the Esst Coast and the sky is clear the pink sky is beautiful ! Take a look. God is quite an artist.!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It is, indeed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 06:49 AM (sAmhv)

86 Posted by: Berkeley Professor who invented this nonsense

heh

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:50 AM (RuTUS)

87 . . . What my cats of past went absolutely bonkers for was the tear-drop tip of an antenna whip (the type that went on vehicles). Lower the tip onto the carpet and then start moving it around or spin in place and watch the cat chase it round and rouind you. Stop if/when your kitty starts panting from the exertion.

And yeah, I had to store the extra antenna whips behind a closed door for the little furnace/ac room after that otherwise I'd come home and find them scattered, and the cats looking at me like, "Why isn't it moving? Make it move!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025

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I have, or they have, a Cat Dancer -- a permanently curved bit of flexible wire with cardboard at each end so it won't pierce an eye. It works much the same way. Years ago I bought it for big red tabby Arizona, and all my cats since have loved it as he did. Little Dagny will occasionally fish it out of the toy basket on her own.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:51 AM (wzUl9)

88 For the record:

Kwanzaa

a secular festival observed by many white female American elementary school teachers with too much time and desperately in need of validation. It lasts from December 26 to January 1 and provides an endless supply of mirth, ridicule, and internet memes for people who have the slightest clue.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Libera Best Christmas Songs

https://tinyurl.com/ywwvssxv

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:54 AM (X+xvk)

90 @87/Wolfus: On the kitty-safety factor: That's why I loved the teardrop-end antennas. Incredibly tough, no risk of injury, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't hang onto the teardrop end when it moved (I nicknamed that "the bug").

Good on you for having a similarly cat-safe toy that they love. And Dagny dragging it out on her own proves its value!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:55 AM (O7YUW)

91 When Ron Karenga wasn't promoting black separatism/Marxism, wasn't he kidnapping and torturing black women?

Delightful man.

Inspiring holiday.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:58 AM (X+xvk)

92 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:02 AM (Cjt/F)

93 A fun cover of the Chipmunks' "Christmas Don't Be Late:"

https://tinyurl.com/yu6ryxfr

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:03 AM (ufSfZ)

94 "When Ron Karenga wasn't promoting black separatism/Marxism, wasn't he kidnapping and torturing black women?
Delightful man.
Inspiring holiday."

demonrats been doing that for a couple of centuries now, innit?
marxism just adds that little frisson of euro-degeneracy ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:05 AM (Cjt/F)

95 Good on you for having a similarly cat-safe toy that they love. And Dagny dragging it out on her own proves its value!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025

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Dagny is getting more clever by the day. She has learned how to open the kitchen cabinet where I keep their treats, though not how to open the packets (yet). And she seems to know when I am going to the bathroom to shave or brush my teeth. She will follow me in, hop on the counter, and happily lap water from my (clean) shaving bowl.

In a minor Christmas miracle, last night I lifted her, 3/4 asleep, from my armchair and held her on my lap for something like five minutes. She seemed quite happy with the whole thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:07 AM (wzUl9)

96 looked at the label on a quart of KwikTrip eggnog the other day ... milk, cream, corn syrup ... egg yolks were well down in the "less than 2%" department. did not buy. sad, really, nutmeg flavored sugar-milk?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:10 AM (Cjt/F)

97 88 For the record:

Kwanzaa

a secular festival observed by many white female American elementary school teachers with too much time and desperately in need of validation. It lasts from December 26 to January 1 and provides an endless supply of mirth, ridicule, and internet memes for people who have the slightest clue.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

lol
I rate this as true.

I honestly believe more young, white, female, teachers celebrate Kwanzaa in their classrooms than black people do at home.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

98 In a minor Christmas miracle, last night I lifted her, 3/4 asleep, from my armchair and held her on my lap for something like five minutes. She seemed quite happy with the whole thing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:07 AM (wzUl9)
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YAY! I think she likes you!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 07:11 AM (ESVrU)

99 93 A fun cover of the Chipmunks' "Christmas Don't Be Late:"

https://tinyurl.com/yu6ryxfr
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:03 AM (ufSfZ)

Swingin'!

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:11 AM (RuTUS)

100 100

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

101 In a minor Christmas miracle, last night I lifted her, 3/4 asleep, from my armchair and held her on my lap for something like five minutes. She seemed quite happy with the whole thing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
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YAY! I think she likes you!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025

***
After three and a half years, she ought to!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:14 AM (wzUl9)

102 75 I’m working through Friday night. Yay!

Posted by: Eromero

God be with you. That's rough. Hope you're surrounded by decent people and can make the best of it.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 07:21 AM (X+xvk)

103 demonrats been doing that for a couple of centuries now, innit?
marxism just adds that little frisson of euro-degeneracy ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Well said, Sir.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 07:23 AM (X+xvk)

104 "Me, I want a hula hoop!"

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:23 AM (RuTUS)

105 I've always wondered if Wolfus named Dagny after the character in Atlas Shrugged?

That's the only Dagny I can think of.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)

106 Perhaps it's short for dagnabit.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:26 AM (2Ez/1)

107 I've always wondered if Wolfus named Dagny after the character in Atlas Shrugged?

That's the only Dagny I can think of.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025

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Actually, I was inspired by our occasional poster here, "Dagny, first of her name."

The name is Scandinavian (rather than the Russian that is traditional to name Siberian cats), and means "New Day."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

108 Big black Stirling, on the other hand, is named for a pipe tobacco blend from Scotland, "Stirling Flake." I had not tried the stuff at the time; just liked the name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (wzUl9)

109
JJS

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

110 107 The name is Scandinavian ... and means "New Day."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

dag ny

How lovely!

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (RuTUS)

111 Noodus JJS

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:29 AM (wzUl9)

112 Ok, but imma stick with dagnabit.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

113 Hang your stocking with care, Pixy!

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)

114 The name is Scandinavian ... and means "New Day."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

dag ny

How lovely!
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025

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It also has echoes of "dignity." I don't give my cats silly. names. Nicknames, yes; Dagny is the "fluffy little fireplug"; but not their call names.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

115 Kind of f letter funny to the editor in today's NY Post:

"All I want for Christmas is to stop seeing perverted Jeffrey Epstein on the cover of major newspapers."

Cecelia Clark
St Petersburg, FL

I agree with you, Cecelia!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 07:31 AM (+hwtP)

116 Actually, I was inspired by our occasional poster here, "Dagny, first of her name."

The name is Scandinavian (rather than the Russian that is traditional to name Siberian cats), and means "New Day."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

Ahh, I see.

I remember seeing that nick on here in my lurker days.
It's an unusual name for a female.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

117 I almost named one of my twin daughters Dagny. I instead settled on naming her after my deceased grandmother, Dorothy.

Posted by: Clark at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (BDH3H)

118 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 23, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Tuesday night ONT time. Glad you're here!

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Happy Festivus

Today is your day, Seinfeld fans.

pic.twitter.com/AkOyg6eXs8
— Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 (@ING2Firebrand) December 23, 2025

Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances. Somebody got started a bit early. Found this gem on Sunday morning at the end of Saturday's Club ONT.

Festivus also includes Feats of Strength. OK - here ya go!

A kickflip straight into a 505lb deadlift while on the skateboard is wild pic.twitter.com/XE0AverLKA
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) December 23, 2025

Want more? Check out these 7 Old-Timey Feats of Strength That Still Impress

Is Festivus a real thing outside of the Seinfeld universe? I doubt it. Funny episode though!

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Bad news from Southwest Airlines if you're pudgy, portly, or stout.

American airline hits plus-size travelers with new policy forcing them to buy two seats

The airline has confirmed it will no longer automatically reimburse “customers of size” who need to buy an extra seat for space.
The benefit had previously been in place for more than 20 years at Southwest Airlines.
Under the original policy, passengers who “encroached upon any part of the neighboring seat” were eligible for a complimentary adjacent seat, with the airline clearly stating that armrests were the “definitive boundary” between seats.
***
Starting January 27, 2026, any customer flying on Southwest who needs additional space will be required to purchase a second seat, with fewer guarantees they’ll get their money back.
In a statement, the airline urged travelers to buy both seats at the time of booking to avoid “last-minute purchases or rebooking at the airport.”

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Media bias shows up in a multitude of ways. See if you can spot the bias here.

Journey keyboardist opens up about relationship with Charlie Kirk

Two months after releasing a song in honor of Charlie Kirk, Journey keyboardist and guitarist Jonathan Cain is opening up about his relationship with the late conservative activist.
“Charlie’s one of a kind,” he said during an appearance on “The 700 Club,” a Christian talk show hosted by Wendy Griffith on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “He was irreplaceable.”
Cain spoke about his single, “No One Else,” dedicated to Kirk, on the show released Tuesday, Dec. 16, and recalled first meeting Kirk at the Republican National Convention in 2016.

OK so far, I'd say. Let's keep reading.

“He was all excited telling us about how he was going to go to campuses and just change everybody’s mind and give conservative kids the good news, a voice,” Cain said, adding that Kirk inspired him to openly speak of his conservative and religious values.
“He brought a lot of people to Jesus,” Cain went on. “He was unafraid. … You can’t silence us.”
Kirk was a polarizing figure in American politics, known for his incendiary rhetoric about gender identity, race, gun rights and religion. In 2012, he founded Turning Point USA to mobilize conservative students on college campuses against what he deemed “woke” ideology. The organization was widely criticized for spreading misinformation.
On Sept. 10, while speaking at Utah Valley University, he was shot and killed. A recent report by the Washington Post revealed that the man accused of the murder, Tyler Robinson, allegedly sent messages about the shooting on Discord about 80 minutes after it happened.
The musician explained that he was writing a pastor appreciation song at the time of Kirk’s death, set to be part of a larger EP. Upon revisiting the music, he instead decided to dedicate the track to his slain friend as a standalone single.
Cain performed “No One Else” at the end of the televised interview while a series of clips of Kirk flashed across the screen.

I'm sure you noticed that completely unnecessary paragraph in there. It did nothing to improve the point of article, but it sure did signal the author's liberal bona fides. Complete garbage in an otherwise decent factual article.

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Big news out of the Smokey Mountains.

After 64 Years, Dollywood Announces Immediate Closure

On Saturday, Dolly Parton’s beloved Dollywood theme park announced an “unscheduled” indefinite closure.
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On December 20, Dollywood posted a press release to its official Instagram story, explaining that the Dollywood Express attraction had indefinitely closed due to “unscheduled” but necessary maintenance work.

What a misleading headline! It sure did make it seem as though the whole park was closing. Anyway, garbage "journalism" once again.

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Fun with Charlie Brown

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Need a last minute gift idea?

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DJ Doof - Guess The Theme

Another easy one tonight - Difficulty level 1 out of 5

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Comments

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1 The emphasis is on the parenthesis.

Posted by: mindful webworker - why did I walk into this room? at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (lNGqL)

2 Second?

Posted by: Frankie at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (medbw)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

4 Doof brings Christmas!

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (jvxGE)

5 Sorry I'm late, I was making my list. Gotta start Christmas shopping timorrow.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (Hd1lH)

6 Merry Christmas

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (w3u3d)

7 Top 10?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (dIJjD)

8 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (Zz0t1)

9 Lovely building up top! Whose is it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (FvUgT)

10 Good evening morons en bedankt Disko

Philadelphia City Hall

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (A0sqA)

11 9 Lovely building up top! Whose is it?

that my homey billy penn

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (emBoF)

12 The airline has confirmed it will no longer automatically reimburse “customers of size” who need to buy an extra seat for space.

If they weigh luggage they should weigh Pax.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (/lPRQ)

13 The Dollywood Express needs maintenance. I shall alert the media.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (+HNx/)

14 Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:05 PM
Doof finally figured out the "post" button.

Posted by: mindful webworker - what would a 'closed blogger' be? at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (lNGqL)

15 the film Birdy has a funny scene where Not Matthew Modine notes that from their angle it looks like William Penn is holding his dick up on top of city hall

but yes, it's a lovely building! there are lots of really nice ones around there. Union League, for example.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:08 PM (emBoF)

16 Not only did we read the cereal boxes during breakfast, if you were mean enough, you'd build your Fortress of Doom out of those boxes and surround your bowl of Quisp within the impenetrable walls.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

17 Billy Penn stands alert.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (mzhi4)

18 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (sAmhv)

19 I would pay $2 for some ass. Male applicants not accepted

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (qFwJc)

20 The British Empire Suspends Trial By Jury. The song is being sung.

https://is.gd/SnbKFA

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (5DEFi)

21 12 The airline has confirmed it will no longer automatically reimburse “customers of size” who need to buy an extra seat for space.

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Also, you'll save money by bringing your own seatbelt extension, fatass.

Posted by: Southwest Airlines at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (+HNx/)

22 I just made the kids watch Boondock Saints.

they GOT BORED

!!!

yeah forget getting them to watch Birdy.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (emBoF)

23 Starting January 27, 2026, any customer flying on Southwest who needs additional space will be required to purchase a second seat, with fewer guarantees they’ll get their money back.

And suddenly, first class is 100% lard-asses.

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (nhCoE)

24 No Dream Theater?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Re: Coffee cup:

That sure beats the $20 in town!

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:11 PM (Hd1lH)

26 The 4 old people in the same bed was always really weird. Also weird that Willy Wonka was kind of a half assed musical.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:11 PM (FvUgT)

27 Merry Christmas to the greatest selection of souls on the entire planet.

I love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)

28 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - dino trusts the process at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (cCn4/)

29 damn Chasm that is too sweet

you're threatening to get me into the Christmas Spirit my guy

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (emBoF)

30 Continuing the musical theme:
https://youtu.be/LYtiDCXLAcQ

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (Hd1lH)

31 I love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)

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That's sweet.

Posted by: A Jerk at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (+HNx/)

32 Philadelphia City Hall...walked by it twice a day for 2 years while working downtown...would know it anywhere

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)

33 love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)

-*********

Thanks!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (Zz0t1)

34 I don't think O ever made it through Charlie and the Chocolate Factory without losing conciousness.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (5DEFi)

35 "Fat Black Screeching Cunt" is a regular troll who uses Verizon Wireless...probably a phone.

It always amuses me when the regular trolls have to become ridiculously incendiary just to be noticed before they are banned. Or...in this case...comment so late in a thread that it was only sheer luck that they were noticed, and Doof was scraping the bottom of the barrel for material!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)

36
BeckoningChasm,

Merry Christmas to you and my favorite cat ROBERT!!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (3ek7K)

37 So per plus size travelers...
What if you're super skinny? Can you pay for a half seat?
I want to speak to the manager!
~anorexic Karen!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (dIJjD)

38 I love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)

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What about us?

Posted by: The Mooks at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (+HNx/)

39 When I was a kid, I got a real 45 record on the back of a cereal box, actually part of the box. It was Time Won't Let Me by the Outsiders.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (L/fGl)

40 Love you back, BeckoningChasm! Merry Christmas!

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (rdVOm)

41 More dreamy music:
https://youtu.be/QJhSM17a8OA

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (Hd1lH)

42 Not only did we read the cereal boxes during breakfast, if you were mean enough, you'd build your Fortress of Doom out of those boxes and surround your bowl of Quisp within the impenetrable walls.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

You didn't need that if you were facing the losers who ate Quake.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (uQesX)

43 known for his incendiary rhetoric about gender identity, race, gun rights and religion.
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In general, articles should neither tell us it represents only the view of the far left wackos.

But it also shouldn't tell us without telling us.

100% of what Kirk said was not anodyne. But his speech was incendiary to a remote few and the dupes they are trying to convince.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (krQz2)

44 16 Not only did we read the cereal boxes during breakfast, if you were mean enough, you'd build your Fortress of Doom out of those boxes and surround your bowl of Quisp within the impenetrable walls.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

I loved Quisp! I battled my brother who chose the arch-enemy Quake as his hero.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (FvUgT)

45 I'm sure you noticed that completely unnecessary paragraph in there. It did nothing to improve the point of article, but it sure did signal the author's liberal bona fides. Complete garbage in an otherwise decent factual article.

It's from the San Francisco Chronicle. It's probably mandatory.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (sAmhv)

46 You are an inferior subsitute.

It's good to have goals.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)

47 38 I love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)

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What about us?
Posted by: The Mooks at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (+HNx/)

but not the Irish!

Posted by: Johan Johanson at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)

48 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Think I may be coming down with something....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (XSP3T)

49 Shit.
Wife's home.

...hides cigar

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)

50 Starting January 27, 2026, any customer flying on Southwest who needs additional space will be required to purchase a second seat, with fewer guarantees they’ll get their money back.

Next up, Southwest goes to "10 across" seating on their 737s, forcing everybody who weighs more than 75 lbs to buy two or more seats.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (GjEvj)

51 Gosh DOOF!

Dreams?!😐

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (dIJjD)

52
Mary Christmas.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (krQz2)

53 I don't think O ever made it through Charlie and the Chocolate Factory without losing conciousness.
Posted by: Boss Moss
************
At one time, TRex and I lived next door to the woman who played Charlie's Mom...even saw her framed Golden ticket...our brush with fame!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (cCn4/)

54 37 So per plus size travelers...
What if you're super skinny? Can you pay for a half seat?
I want to speak to the manager!
~anorexic Karen!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (dIJjD)

Zombie Karen Carpenter has entered the chat...

Posted by: Johan Johanson at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)

55 Yup, I was a cereal box reader.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (snZF9)

56 4 seats per EBT recipient?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (5DEFi)

57 It boggles my mind that Leonard Stone played not only Mr. Beauregarde in Willy Wonka but also Charles in Soylent Green.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)

58 I had one of those cereal box 45s but it was Halloween sound effects. It was a prized possession.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (mzhi4)

59 LOL. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a cautionary tale..

I always felt bad about Veruca Salt. She was like a girl I met in La Jolla Elementary Summer School in 1967. Not a bad girl. What was her name? Snodgrass.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (qFwJc)

60 Guess The Theme?

Gaye-ish looking lead singers?

Posted by: mindful webworker - weird lyrics? at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (lNGqL)

61 .comment so late in a thread that it was only sheer luck that they were noticed, and Doof was scraping the bottom of the barrel for material!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)

***********

Tell me you've never read a Doof ONT without telling me you've never read a Doof ONT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (Zz0t1)

62 No Dream Theater?
Posted by: Sponge

https://youtu.be/ZDSi02J2CXM
https://youtu.be/VMvfcFAAfgs

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (nhCoE)

63 55 Yup, I was a cereal box reader.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (snZF9)

--------

I raked those things for every word of text, including the sell-by date.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)

64 27 Merry Christmas to the greatest selection of souls on the entire planet.

I love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)

Even Raimondo? You are much more charitable than I.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (Hd1lH)

65 I'm glad that music list did not contain "These Dreams" by reconstituted Heart.

That comes from their No Good Hits period.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (krQz2)

66 Humans have ways of detecting cigar smoke.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (5DEFi)

67 I do love dreams.
And Rush.
And Dolly Pardon's tits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (EOjZq)

68 You people haven't positioned me for generational wealth.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (A0sqA)

69 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette. Trying to hydrate through the tears. Gave everyone extra "squishy hugs" tonight.

Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

70 You are an inferior substitute.

Don't worry, no one thinks you are a substitute.

Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (NxjzV)

71 63 55 Yup, I was a cereal box reader.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (snZF9)

--------

I raked those things for every word of text, including the sell-by date.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)

Same, was and am a compulsive reader. I still read while eating lunch. Currently The Black Company.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (EOjZq)

72
This will probably get lost in the comments, lol.

My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night.

Hubby and I found on tube Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, her rendition.

Her rendition is so powerful.

We highly recommend.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)

73 I raked those things for every word of text, including the sell-by date.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)

Yeah, I'm old enough that boxes did not have sell by dates... at all...

really... thinkin back, when did those start.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)

74 Mrs. Sock is finishing up her Christmas fudge. It's been an all day affair. 24 full size cookie sheets worth.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (MolB1)

75 "Poot, Charlie, poot!!"

-- Grandpa Joe, from the fizzy lifting drinks corporate espionage caper

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (mzhi4)

76 I always felt bad about Veruca Salt. She was like a girl I met in La Jolla Elementary Summer School in 1967. Not a bad girl. What was her name? Snodgrass.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (qFwJc)
===
Was she a bad egg?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (A0sqA)

77 {{{pookysgirl}}}

More prayers.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (ULPxl)

78 Yeah, I'm old enough that boxes did not have sell by dates... at all...

--------

To be honest, do kids cereals even need a sell-by date?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (+HNx/)

79 You are all wonderful. Yes, even YOU.

As for Robert the Cat(tm), his evil is contained this season. When the new year dawns, uh, look out. He is a cat after all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (CHHv1)

80 That Charlie and the Chocolate Factory post was something.

I had to laugh because I've never thought about it like that, and it's on the button.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (krQz2)

81 So per plus size travelers...
What if you're super skinny? Can you pay for a half seat?
I want to speak to the manager!
~anorexic Karen!
==========
No, but I'll give you 50 bucks if you'll let me stuff you in the overhead, scrunt.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (0yLoC)

82 My cereal was made by a dogfood company. Ralston Purina. Freakies.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (5DEFi)

83 Shit.
Wife's home.

...hides cigar

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)

Hmm....

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

84 @69 multiple multiple prayers, And then even more.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (CHHv1)

85 Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

Posted by: Methos at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (vSvIl)

86 No Dream Theater?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Thought about it but I've featured them on 2 occasions recently.

Also considered Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

87 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette. Trying to hydrate through the tears. Gave everyone extra "squishy hugs" tonight.
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
====

Very saddened by this news

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (A0sqA)

88 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (sAmhv)

89 Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:05 PM
Doof finally figured out the "post" button.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what would a 'closed blogger' be? at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (lNGqL)

The button stopped bouncing around the page like a zooming puppy.

Either that, or he had to waiting for the disco ball to hit the right speed.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (S/Y4j)

90 Guess The Theme?

A Summer Place!

Posted by: Norberg at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (uQesX)

91 80 That Charlie and the Chocolate Factory post was something.

I had to laugh because I've never thought about it like that, and it's on the button.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (krQz2)

There are lots of child hood stories, that if you look at them with fresh adult eyes... characters who we thought were OK, are pretty damn evil.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)

92 74 Mrs. Sock is finishing up her Christmas fudge. It's been an all day affair. 24 full size cookie sheets worth.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (MolB1)

Wow

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (EOjZq)

93 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette. Trying to hydrate through the tears. Gave everyone extra "squishy hugs" tonight.
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this
***********
So sorry to hear this...prayers up for you. What wrenching news to receive now....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:24 PM (cCn4/)

94 Doof was scraping the bottom of the barrel for material!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)

***********

Tell me you've never read a Doof ONT without telling me you've never read a Doof ONT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I've been to the barrel quite a few times before the sissies started using auto close tags. There's definitely some interesting stuff at the bottom!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:24 PM (QMAsf)

95 Watching hockey, wife is resting and I'm sipping some wonderful Buffalo Trace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (Zz0t1)

96 59 LOL. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a cautionary tale..

I always felt bad about Veruca Salt. She was like a girl I met in La Jolla Elementary Summer School in 1967. Not a bad girl. What was her name? Snodgrass.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (qFwJc)

American Thighs is a great album

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (EOjZq)

97 Guess The Theme?

A Summer Place!

--------

FUN FACT: The Theme from A Summer Place was on the soundtrack of Animal House. I think it was in the scene where Babs was trying to give Greg a handy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (+HNx/)

98 95 Watching hockey, wife is resting and I'm sipping some wonderful Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (Zz0t1)

*Fistbump*
Me too, man.
It's gimpmas for me and my friends. I brought a bottle to share.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (EOjZq)

99 Doof was scraping the bottom of the barrel for material!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)

Somebody has to clean the damn thing out once in a while.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (gKDq2)

100 Mrs. Sock is finishing up her Christmas fudge. It's been an all day affair. 24 full size cookie sheets worth.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (MolB1)

Thats some north pole shit right there. Damn..

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (snZF9)

101 I, too, always had that 'off' feeling about Grandpa Joe

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (lCppi)

102 Strongman Paul Anderson visited my church a few times when I was a kid where he did feats of strength and then did a short sermon.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (KDPiq)

103 Doof finally figured out the "post" button.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what would a 'closed blogger' be? at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (lNGqL)

The button stopped bouncing around the page like a zooming puppy.

Either that, or he had to waiting for the disco ball to hit the right speed.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (S/Y4j)

Those are some weak attempts at airing of grievances.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (QMAsf)

104
*Fistbump*
Me too, man.
It's gimpmas for me and my friends. I brought a bottle to share.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (EOjZq)

***********

Merry Christmas, my friend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (Zz0t1)

105 This will probably get lost in the comments, lol.

My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)
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I love that one. (I like singing it as well.)

But there are a couple others that if competes with for me.

• I Wonder As I Wander
• O Come, Emmanuel

Interesting story about that second one. I went to a Dominican Catholic church for a good portion of my childhood. The entire mass was done in a similar kind of chant. And I hated that "carol", because that was one of the ones that they would have us sing.

That song made me feel like when you lose your baseball cap and your mom insists you wear your cub scout hat because it's "just as good". Almost nowhere else would I hear that hymn.

Decades away from the Dominican service, it's so beautiful--and it's also pretty popular these days.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (krQz2)

106 There are lots of child hood stories, that if you look at them with fresh adult eyes... characters who we thought were OK, are pretty damn evil.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)

In the original 'Willy Wonka', with Gene Wilder, I always thought Willy Wonka was a creep. Never saw the appeal to kids.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (gKDq2)

107 My cereal was made by a dogfood company. Ralston Purina. Freakies.
Posted by: Boss Moss

When I worked in a cabinet shop, the boss had us write out every task needed to construct a specific piece of furniture. We almost always started off with: "Sand the rough boards with Grape Nuts. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (cYBz/)

108 Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)

It's always been my favorite too. Here's a version by Selah:

youtu.be/GFLTYAndj84

Posted by: pookysgirl has a lot of Christmas music at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (Wt5PA)

109 Next up, Southwest goes to "10 across" seating on their 737s, forcing everybody who weighs more than 75 lbs to buy two or more seats.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Bench seating "by the inch"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)

110 Pookysgirl, my heart breaks for you and your family. May our Lord grant you comfort and heal your broken heart. Take solice in the fact that she was and is His child. He loves her more then we can understand. She will be safe in His presence.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:29 PM (MolB1)

111 I am just going to say it, I don't care how many people I piss off. Colonel Douglas McGregor sounds like Cave Johnson. I keep expecting him to start ranting about lemons.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (rbvCR)

112 Merry Christmas, my friend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (Zz0t1)

Right back at ya

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (EOjZq)

113 Humans have ways of detecting cigar smoke.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Cover it with Kim chee
Lot's of Kim chee

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (/lPRQ)

114 111 I am just going to say it, I don't care how many people I piss off. Colonel Douglas McGregor sounds like Cave Johnson. I keep expecting him to start ranting about lemons.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (rbvCR)

"We're done here"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (EOjZq)

115 Continuing the musical theme:
https://youtu.be/LYtiDCXLAcQ
Posted by: tankdemon

https://youtu.be/HU05dhTSFq0
https://youtu.be/86VNMGkEIWk
https://youtu.be/t6-4LKuYFz0
https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8
https://youtu.be/WYflSAMPgIw
https://youtu.be/VwDRmhmP6Es
https://youtu.be/p6tYk4c8HjE

Posted by: mikeski might be spam at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)

116 Prayers up pookysgirl. Dino vocabulary comes up short in times like this.

Posted by: TRex - prayerful dino at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)

117 82 My cereal was made by a dogfood company. Ralston Purina. Freakies.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (5DEF

I also found that rather suspicious, even as a junior cereal connoisseur, so I curtailed my breakfast brands to only include Freakies, Count Chocula and Uncle Rastus' Cream of Wheat.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (mzhi4)

118 I really never had sit down breakfast. Both my parents worked different shifts. During school my breakfast was a donut and pint of chocolate milk I got at donut king on the way to school. Weekends were for sleeping late.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (KDPiq)

119 {{{pookysgirl}}}

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (rdVOm)

120 Those are some weak attempts at airing of grievances.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (QMAsf)

Grandma won't let us be salty anymore.

Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (NxjzV)

121 There are lots of child hood stories, that if you look at them with fresh adult eyes... characters who we thought were OK, are pretty damn evil.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)
---
Also, it's a Dahl story. Dahl always has a dark side.

He's an tremendous author (although I've heard some bad things about his personal side.)

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (krQz2)

122 106 There are lots of child hood stories, that if you look at them with fresh adult eyes... characters who we thought were OK, are pretty damn evil.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj

Look up Dahl's meaning of the "snozzberry" reference.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:34 PM (mzhi4)

123 I do love dreams.
And Rush.
And Dolly Pardon's tits.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Well, excuuuuuuuuse me!

Posted by: Dolly Martin at December 23, 2025 10:34 PM (nhCoE)

124 I knew the horde could take a beloved show of mine and others like Willie Wonka with a good message and trash it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:34 PM (KDPiq)

125
Oh pookiesgirl! So much love and prayers. My heart hurts💔

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (dIJjD)

126 There's definitely some interesting stuff at the bottom!
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:24 PM (QMAsf)

That is NOT interesting. It is crawly, slimy and foul, but nobody is interested in that.

Doof: DH wants to know what topper you put on your truck. He might finally be getting one.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (6Bc88)

127 My favorite songs with “Dreams” in the title - Allman Brothers, “Dreams”, and Heart, Nancy Wilson singing lead, “These Dreams”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (FvUgT)

128 Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM

Wait, what?!

All the prayers ascending.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (Wnv9h)

129 Weightlifter on a skateboard is a maniac. My knees and ankles were screaming at me, don't try this at home.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (nljXp)

130 Fuq me … that’s a huge pull from that big deficit

Tip o’ the 🧢

Quien es mas macho … Senor skateboard dude es mas macho

Posted by: browndog would never at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (TTAGa)

131 A whole pint of chocolate milk?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (5DEFi)

132 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (FvUgT)

Blondie -Dreaming

The drums in that song rocked.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq)

133
What's that song that goes fool if you think it's over?

Yeah, the singer is mort. 74.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (0RrTI)

134 Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

--------

May God give you strength.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (+HNx/)

135 Philadelphia City Hall

That's Billy Penn standing on top of it. He's 37 feet tall.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (SqxZS)

136 Also, it's a Dahl story. Dahl always has a dark side.

He's an tremendous author (although I've heard some bad things about his personal side.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM

Pig has entered the chat.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)

137 Sorry I'm late, I was making my list. Gotta start Christmas shopping timorrow.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (Hd1lH)

Yo.
Wait for the after 9pm sales. You can score big then!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

138 >What's that song that goes fool if you think it's over?

There's no earthly way of knowing...

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (mzhi4)

139 All the prayers, PG. All the prayes.

You're not alone and some of us know exactly what you're going through. It suuuuuuucks. I'm so sorry.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (Zz0t1)

140 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette. Trying to hydrate through the tears. Gave everyone extra "squishy hugs" tonight.
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this

Prayers up, pookysgirl. We are here for you.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

141 whole pint of chocolate milk?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (5DEFi)

I probably could have downed a quart . The half pint is like 3 swallows.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (KDPiq)

142 In the original 'Willy Wonka', with Gene Wilder, I always thought Willy Wonka was a creep. Never saw the appeal to kids.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (gKDq2)

yeah I thought he was a tad creepy too. There was a lot of creepy shit. I never could figure out what the deal was with charlie living with that group of useless bastards laying around in a bunch of pushed together beds.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (snZF9)

143
91 80 That Charlie and the Chocolate Factory post was something.

I had to laugh because I've never thought about it like that, and it's on the button.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (krQz2)
__________________________

"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" Pitch Meeting is one of the best that guy's done. It's hilarious. He points out that all four grandparents are in the same bed, and all they eat is cabbage soup. That can't be good. Check it out, you'll laugh at the insights on this one.

https://tinyurl.com/4hncbt6r

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)

144 Finished my retrieval of a buddy's personal items from her totaled vehicle today. I had forgotten what a car that was involved in a fatality was like. Stuff all over, glass pieces, jagged metal trying to grab you, air brushes, glasses, and dentures thrown into hard to reach places. Got it done though.

Gotta say though, Copart really runs a first rate operation. Easy paperwork and verification process and their fork drivers are fast and safe. Hope I don't have to do that again ever.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)

145 Hi everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice Christmas Eve Eve! I feel like a baker elf. I made sugared cranberries and rosemary for Buche de Noels. And 3, yes 3, Buche de Noels themselves. 21 eggs, separated. Tomorrow I decorate them. I ran out of steam tonight.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (p4NUW)

146 ***taptaptap***

Is this 🎙️on 🤔

Currently the hottest team in hockey is …

The Buffalo Sabres on a 7 game heater

Thank you for your attention to this matter

Posted by: browndog would never at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (TTAGa)

147 Oh Pookysgirl so sad at your news. Prayers for you and your family.

Chasm - so sweet.

Merry Christmas, Horde!

Posted by: Iris at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (bOJ2I)

148 No Dream Theater?
Posted by: Sponge

I'm honestly wondering how Rush's Dreamline got left out.

No space before the L?

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)

149 63
--------

I raked those things for every word of text, including the sell-by date.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)

My cereal box reading days were before they started putting sell-by dates on stuff.

Fuckin' safety nazis.

Posted by: a.moron at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (X5Jzz)

150 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette.

WHAT what is this? OMG. Bless you, dear girl, and your family. ❤️

Posted by: mindful webworker - life is full of twists and turn, turn, turns at December 23, 2025 10:41 PM (lNGqL)

151 I have to report, that sadly, there are no more meatballs.

Carry on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 10:42 PM (XV/Pl)

152 Is it just me or was tonight's content a bit...lacking? It should at least last long enough to take a dump amiright?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (2WIwB)

153 Doof: DH wants to know what topper you put on your truck. He might finally be getting one.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (6Bc8

I have a tri-fold fabric tonneau cover. Made by Tyger. Works well for my needs. Usually fully covered this time of year. Usually folded back in warm weather so only 1/3 of the bed is covered. Easy to remove too - like I did at the ranch in October. It's not 100% watertight in the corners near the cab. Doesn't bother me any.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (QMAsf)

154 Speaking of remakes I watched the new Running Man and well it isn't a terrible movie it also isn't as good as the original even though Glen Powell is a better actor then Ahnuld.

They flirt a little with the antifa stuff but it doesn't work with the general plot of a TV Network propagandizing the populace. I know the left loves to wax idiotic about FAUXNEWS but these bubbleheads repeat whatever the networks tell them in real time.

One specific moment that really stuck out is Killian is offering Richards an opportunity to work for him and Richards argues that they made him a villain how can they now make him a hero to which Killian says, "don't worry about it" and immediately took me back to Steve Colbert persuading his audience to cheer for Comey who they had just been booing because the narrative changed

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (sKqQm)

155 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette.

Oh my gosh, my heart just fell. I haven’t been on today and this, you have prayers and if there is anything else we can do to support you right now?

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (p4NUW)

156 I'm honestly wondering how Rush's Dreamline got left out.

No space before the L?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)

I might have to denounce myself.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)

157 Doof - you finally made a song theme easy enough for me. I love that Crowded House song.

And yes, I never noticed that detail about the grandpa in Willie Wonka.

Posted by: Iris at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (bOJ2I)

158 20 The British Empire Suspends Trial By Jury. The song is being sung.

https://is.gd/SnbKFA

Posted by: Boss Moss
---

That may be somewhat problematic with the working class.
But it will definitely get the commies in an uproar over here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (Mis34)

159 152 Is it just me or was tonight's content a bit...lacking? It should at least last long enough to take a dump amiright?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (2WIwB)

----------

Metric dump or Imperial?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (+HNx/)

160 Yeah, Willy Wonka was a weird flick. (One thing I liked, was that some of the exteriors were filmed in in Rothenburg, Germany. Wife and I visited when I was stationed there.)
But, when I saw it in the theater as a kid, I found it rather disturbing, and not much fun.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (0aYVJ)

161 69 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette. Trying to hydrate through the tears. Gave everyone extra "squishy hugs" tonight.

Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

hon, I am so sorry, Prayers for you and yours, and precious Lil Pookette.

Posted by: moki at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (wLjpr)

162 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (npFr7)

163 There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)

164 No baking for me this year. Can't find the energy. I did manage to make some deviled eggs for hubby-- one of his very favorite snacks.

That'll do for today & tomorrow, then will make a mini-charcuterie tray for us to snack on Christmas Day.

Will attend online church service tomorrow evening.

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

165 The British Empire Suspends Trial By Jury. The song is being sung.

The claimed reason they want to do this is they have too many cases to handle. And the unsaid part is this is too to importing a criminal class AND criminalizing speech at the same time. Remember Britain has more political prisoners now then Russia does.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (sKqQm)

166 115 Continuing the musical theme:
https://youtu.be/LYtiDCXLAcQ
Posted by: tankdemon

https://youtu.be/HU05dhTSFq0
https://youtu.be/86VNMGkEIWk
https://youtu.be/t6-4LKuYFz0
https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8
https://youtu.be/WYflSAMPgIw
https://youtu.be/VwDRmhmP6Es
https://youtu.be/p6tYk4c8HjE
Posted by: mikeski might be spam at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)

Did you had those cheddar up already?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (Hd1lH)

167 So many years, I lost family during holiday seasons. The pain is always in my heart even after several decades. My prayers and love to all who endure this.
But, always remember the reason for this season.
God loves us, and we will always be in His embrace.
Take solace from this pooky. We all love and pray for you, and we all hold you close.
Hold close those who love you.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (dIJjD)

168 So sorry, pookysgirl. Sending prayers.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)

169 The first Willy Wonka was a great movie - Gene Wilder straddles the line of loveable eccentric and creepy likely child murderer perfectly.

The second was just odd...Depp playing Wonka as a cross between Michael Jackson and Edwardscissor Hands

And the third one with Chalemet? Never really saw a reason to watch it

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 10:48 PM (sKqQm)

170 163 There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)

It's a shitty situation

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)

171 There’s an online theory that Snowpiercer was about Charlie all grown up, with Wonka’s tech.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (FvUgT)

172 Seriously.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (Zz0t1)

173 Fat Black Screeching Cunt, eh?

Is that your given name?

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 10:51 PM (zZu0s)

174 pookysgirl, words cannot express how my heart is aching for your loss. I'll be praying for you and your family.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 10:52 PM (lUFok)

175 163 There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)

It's a shitty situation

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)

Depends.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:52 PM (mzhi4)

176 Is it just me or was tonight's content a bit...lacking? It should at least last long enough to take a dump amiright?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (2WIwB)

Contact Ace and see what night(s) he will allow you to do a better job

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:52 PM (QMAsf)

177 I'm honestly wondering how Rush's Dreamline got left out.

No space before the L?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)

I might have to denounce myself.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)

My rush playing bass player made me learn that song a few weeks back. At first I was not amused, but after awhile I could see he was right. Its kinda fun to play.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (snZF9)

178 Dumb friend blasting my phone. Why do people do that? If I don't feel like talking, calling me 10x in a row is not going to change that. Now he's blocked 24 hours. Again. You would think he would learn. Or at least recognize I'm Irish?

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (Sv5iI)

179 136 Also, it's a Dahl story. Dahl always has a dark side.

He's an tremendous author (although I've heard some bad things about his personal side.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM

Pig has entered the chat.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)

"Switch Bitch" has entered the chat

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq)

180 There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
-----

It's a shitty situation
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)

Paging Mr. Whipple. Mr. Whipple to the courtesy phone. Paging Mr. Whipple.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

181
You see this?

Remember the scene in JAWS when the kids swam underwater with a fake Shark Fin to scare the shit outta the beachgoers?

Remember when Chief Brodie caught up to them, and the one kid, scared, blurted out something like, "he made me do it!"

Watch these two little kids from Ohio from 3 days ago:

https://is.gd/7aqvQd

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (0RrTI)

182 82 My cereal was made by a dogfood company. Ralston Purina. Freakies.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Geez, I never thought about it like that. I hope their cereal didn't have horse meat in it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

183 Doof - you finally made a song theme easy enough for me. I love that Crowded House song.

And yes, I never noticed that detail about the grandpa in Willie Wonka.
Posted by: Iris at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (bOJ2I)

Sunday's was very easy too. But I have some diabolical ones in the queue!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)

184 Pookysgirl, so very sorry. I pray God stays his Hand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (zZu0s)

185 Hey, if I walk out my front door and turn right, I can see the headline pic 3, blocks south on Broad St. Hooray for Philly!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (IX8iX)

186 To be honest, do kids cereals even need a sell-by date?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (+HNx/)

We'd open that box of Capn Crunch and eat it til it was gone in one sitting and the roofs of our mouths were shredded.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (zdQuL)

187 What's that song that goes fool if you think it's over?
---
Fool (If You Think It's Over) by Chris Rea.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (krQz2)

188 What is going on with Pookette? 😭😭😭😭

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (XSP3T)

189 Dreamboat Annie would be my pick for Heart.

Love that song.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:56 PM (krQz2)

190 There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)

We could revisit the vanvera content from last month!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:56 PM (QMAsf)

191 188 What is going on with Pookette? 😭😭😭😭
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (XSP3T)

She lost a baby

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (EOjZq)

192 There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
-----

It's a shitty situation
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)
----
Some people think it's funny...

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (krQz2)

193 133
What's that song that goes fool if you think it's over?

Yeah, the singer is mort. 74.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (0RrTI)

Chris Rea – Fool (If You Think It's Over). One of my favorite songs from 1978.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (y171U)

194 Doesn't bother me any.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (QMAsf)

DH says thanks. So do I.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (6Bc88)

195 Did you had those cheddar up already?
Posted by: tankdemon

Just going through the stuff on my iphone, actually.

I gots more.

https://youtu.be/kCxzlNuSdak
https://youtu.be/0rrORyfpty0
https://youtu.be/rcmJCkRL0BA
https://youtu.be/Zq90E6WK15U
https://youtu.be/ziP3bl_xWho
https://youtu.be/qxsz5cwXRNo

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (nhCoE)

196 All you need to know about poop is on the chart.

Know. Your. Poop. Chart.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (A0sqA)

197 Oh, I am so sorry to hear this - how far along?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (XSP3T)

198 and more yet.

https://youtu.be/iEJNCYZyp5A
https://youtu.be/83zPG4aCyqk
https://youtu.be/Rk2B8pw1dVs
https://youtu.be/77ggV3wGL50
https://youtu.be/1I-p77KFvAc
https://youtu.be/LnHLEQ1hjpw

I think I'm done now, tho.

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (nhCoE)

199 Now he's trying with a different number. Unbelievable.

As a member of the civil society I'm now obligated
to block him 48 hours

I should provide his number so you guys can taunt him
"Fen doesn't live here anymore Mrs Torrence"

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (Sv5iI)

200 I'm nothing and no one. Thank you all for letting me say things here, despite being non.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (CHHv1)

201 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette. Trying to hydrate through the tears. Gave everyone extra "squishy hugs" tonight.
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

Here's hoping you are mistaken, and Lil Pookette is hanging in there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (npFr7)

202 Piper, how is your daughter's finger doing?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (A0sqA)

203 My festivus complaint is me.
Every single year I have a day of wearing myself out because of procrastination.If I had the energy I'd...ok, I don't know what I'd do to myself as I am not known for harm to myself or others.

I buy Christmas (and birthday, etc) gifts months in advance. I buy Christmas cards a a month in advance. I know from my MIL and Martha Stewart you can feeze cookies yet I don't. Marth Stewart, that beetch, always says to wrap gifts when you buy them, but I never do.

Therefore, there is always One Fine Day that all of my bad and wicked ways punish me. Today is that day. My husband did help make the entree that is safely in the fridge for dinner tomorrow. I had it all planned, you see. He helped me make some cookie dough. He is a good man who puts up with me in my day of festivus frenzy that surely has to stop this year.I wrapped gifts. He put a doll bed together.

Our DIL, returning from a ski trip, texts me that she wants me to make cookies for dessert the night of Christmas. Which I planned to do anyway. Then adds that we need to talk about a side dish. I text ok.

Then snap at the poor man who married me. I apologized.Festivus is here! I am going to bed!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (WONhk)

204 Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (Sv5iI)
---------

Oh, that *is* annoying! My BIL does that too, but he's deaf (I think perhaps mentally 'challenged' also) and uses a relay service for calls. You'd think there's some limit to how many times they'll call the same number in 10-15 minutes' time when it is not an emergency.

Finally turned off the answering machine and told him to just text me, I'd reply when able. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (rdVOm)

205 I'm nothing and no one. Thank you all for letting me say things here, despite being non.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (CHHv1)
====

You're something to me.

You're my emergency food supply.

Posted by: Robert the Cat at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (A0sqA)

206 Sunday's was very easy too. But I have some diabolical ones in the queue!
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)

"Diabolical" is my specialty.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (Hd1lH)

207 What's that song that goes fool if you think it's over?

There's no earthly way of knowing...
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (mzhi4)

Chris Rea. On one of his albums, the liner notes refer to him as Germany's Bruce Springsteen. Whatever Happened to Benny Santini was the title of the album that "Fool" was on. Might have been his only hit in the US. I liked a lot of his stuff, and recently turned Little on to this little gem..

http://tiny.cc/vdtw001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nbLIj)

208 I'm honestly wondering how Rush's Dreamline got left out.
No space before the L?
Posted by: mikeski

I might have to denounce myself.
Posted by: Doof

You might be on double-secret probation.

Posted by: Middletown Dreams at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)

209 Philly!

Posted by: Otto Zilch at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (Ws2ua)

210 Dreamboat Annie would be my pick for Heart.

Love that song.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:56 PM (krQz2)

Didn't the Police have a "Dream of the Blue Turtles"?

There are a lot of "dream" songs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)

211 In the original 'Willy Wonka', with Gene Wilder, I always thought Willy Wonka was a creep. Never saw the appeal to kids.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (gKDq2)
"YOU GET NOTHING!!! GOOD DAY, SIR!!!"

Man, Wilder performed the hell out of that. I saw a documentary about that, Wilder had practiced that outburst in private, but never in rehearsal. The documentary said that camera men flinched.

Wilder turns out to be one heck of an original.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:02 PM (krQz2)

212 Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:02 PM (Zz0t1)

213 Pookysgirl, you are in my heart and prayers.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 23, 2025 11:02 PM (FMtrg)

214 Didn't the Police have a "Dream of the Blue Turtles"?

There are a lot of "dream" songs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)

That was Sting's first solo album

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:03 PM (QMAsf)

215 I Dreamed There Was No War -- Eagles

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (+HNx/)

216 Also, I don't fly Southwest, and haven't for over a decade.

Are they going to have people sit in a seat by the gate before boarding? Like some airlines do to see if your carry on fits? If your arse doesn't fit you can't commit. Or something.

The next time I fly I may go to a SW gate,if nearby, to check this out.

In Fort Lauderdale, it is Spirit that would entertain with wighat wrestling.

I think this SW idea is not going to go well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (WONhk)

217 So...Fat Black Screeching Cunt doesn't like cigar smokers eh???

*lights cigar with burning $100 bill*

How about now?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB)

218 You might be on double-secret probation.
Posted by: Middletown Dreams at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)

I haven't used that as a deep cut yet!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (QMAsf)

219 82 My cereal was made by a dogfood company. Ralston Purina. Freakies.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (5DEFi)

Instant Ralston hot cereal as advertised in the 1950's radio show "Space Patrol". With announcer Dick Tufeld who later did the voice of the robot on Lost in Space.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (y171U)

220 Dream Weaver - Gary Wright z"l

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 11:05 PM (A0sqA)

221 how youse all doin' ?

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:05 PM (ZxPkt)

222 So...Fat Black Screeching Cunt doesn't like cigar smokers eh???

*lights cigar with burning $100 bill*

How about now?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB)

Its rhe skunk he's got his feet resting on who's also smoking a cigar that really sells it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:05 PM (zZu0s)

223 "Diabolical" is my specialty.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (Hd1lH)

OK cool. See you in January!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (QMAsf)

224 So...Fat Black Screeching Cunt doesn't like cigar smokers eh???

*lights cigar with burning $100 bill*

How about now?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB)

That nic doesn't really narrow it down all that much. So many possible candidates...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

225 Interesting 70s music trivia.

Ace's (the band) single hit "How Long (Has This Been Going On)" has never been about what most people take it to be about.

And if you know the answer, and you re-listen to it, you'll never hear it the old way again.

The secret: their bass player had been two-timing with another band that might have been going places faster. Paul Carrick wrote this song as sort of notes for the confrontation.

How Long is as great as smooth mid-road pop gets, so take another listen.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (krQz2)

226 Otis Redding - Dreams to Remember

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (Zz0t1)

227 "Christmas is God whispering, I have not forgotten you.”

Good night all. Much love to pookiesgirl❣🙏...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (dIJjD)

228 Posted this song on our gaming group's Discord Channel this morning. It went over well. It's cute.

https://youtu.be/GywDFkY3z-c

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (oFnDw)

229 201 Thank you for the prayers over the (very probable) loss of Lil Pookette. Trying to hydrate through the tears. Gave everyone extra "squishy hugs" tonight.
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

Here's hoping you are mistaken, and Lil Pookette is hanging in there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (npFr7)

This is sad and I am praying, but wanted to ask if pookysgirl or daughter lost the baby? I never know how old anyone is. Regardless, she and family are in my prayers. Thanks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)

230 Instant Ralston hot cereal as advertised in the 1950's radio show "Space Patrol". With announcer Dick Tufeld who later did the voice of the robot on Lost in Space.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (y171U)

Ralston originated the Chex line of cereals, didn't they?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)

231 Night COMM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (zZu0s)

232 I've only read some of Dahl's children's stories (the two involving Charlie, The Witches, which is quite good). I'm told he has some ghost stories. I'd like to check those out.

Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (NxjzV)

233 There are a lot of "dream" songs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)
---
If this wasn't Ace's HQ, I might suggest Silent Lucidity by You Know 'oo.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (krQz2)

234 Also I Only Dream in Infrared.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (krQz2)

235 218 You might be on double-secret probation.
Posted by: Middletown Dreams at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)

I haven't used that as a deep cut yet!
Posted by: Doof
........................................
Underrated song from them. Beautifully written song.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (sAmhv)

236 Christmas is God whispering, I have not forgotten you.”

Good night all. Much love to pookiesgirl❣🙏...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (dIJjD)

And out chance to keep remembering him.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (2WIwB)

237 Who made... Postum? It was like a chicory coffee morning drink, I think. Alternative to coffee.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (zZu0s)

238 202 Piper, how is your daughter's finger doing?
Posted by: San Franp

It’s swollen and hurts tonight, lidocaine is gone now. She is taking Motrin, but is being a trooper and still trying to help with Christmas prep and all the animals. We got nitrile gloves today so she can take a shower and keep it dry, she was very excited about this.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (p4NUW)

239 Metaphor for the whole country

@Breaking911 1m
U.K. police declared a major incident on Monday after a sinkhole formed beneath a canal, draining part of it and leaving several narrowboats stranded.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (mlg/3)

240 Wait was that Post?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (zZu0s)

241 Children of the Sun, Billy Thorpe.

Never heard that song until I moved to Alaska in 1985. Then I heard it a lot. Very nostalgic for me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (0aYVJ)

242 Oops.
Him. Not him.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (2WIwB)

243
Carole King, not mort, wrote a lot of that doo-wop shit in the 60's.

She and her husband wrote the 1965 hit "Loco Motion" sung by Little Eva. Or Evie, whichever.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (0RrTI)

244 Ralston Purina Blew up the Death Star. Look at a Rebel General's insignia, then look at Purina's logo.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (pIfcn)

245 Prayers for you and yours PG.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (IX8iX)

246 I've only read some of Dahl's children's stories (the two involving Charlie, The Witches, which is quite good). I'm told he has some ghost stories. I'd like to check those out.
Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (NxjzV)
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The chief thing that got me into Harry Potter was the Dahl-ish feeling.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (krQz2)

247
Trivia:

Which band covered Loco-Motion in the 70's and made it a hit again?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (0RrTI)

248 Grand Funk RR

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (Q+gd/)

249 @Breaking911 1m
U.K. police declared a major incident on Monday after a sinkhole formed beneath a canal, draining part of it and leaving several narrowboats stranded.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (mlg/3)

Vikings hardest hit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (npFr7)

250 Grand Funk

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (+HNx/)

251 178 Dumb friend blasting my phone. Why do people do that? If I don't feel like talking, calling me 10x in a row is not going to change that. Now he's blocked 24 hours. Again. You would think he would learn. Or at least recognize I'm Irish?
Posted by: Fen
Does he know about voicemail?

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (0Htd1)

252
Keep It Elevated!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (0RrTI)

253 Also, Linda Rondstadt

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (+HNx/)

254 Anyone here from Delaware and have the scoop on who shot the State Trooper at the DMV?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)

255 207: Chris Rea died a couple of days ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (sAmhv)

256 Today was a good day.

I got to call obnoxious twats from Denmark "colonizers" haha

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (Sv5iI)

257 Grand Funk

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (+HNx/)
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They're an American band. (woo-oo)

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (krQz2)

258
Finger above the Heart, keeps the swelling down, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (0RrTI)

259 254 Anyone here from Delaware and have the scoop on who shot the State Trooper at the DMV?

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I did not shoot the deputy.

Posted by: E. Clapton at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (+HNx/)

260 Chris Rea died a couple of days ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (sAmhv)
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So you think it's over?

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (krQz2)

261 254 Anyone here from Delaware and have the scoop on who shot the State Trooper at the DMV?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)

I'm not from Delaware.

Posted by: Eric Clapton at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Q+gd/)

262 Rick Springfield remade a Sammy Hagar song and took it to number 1. Sammy was all WTF? He asked Rick what he did different.

"Well, Sammy, you're not that good looking a guy....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Zz0t1)

263 How Long is as great as smooth mid-road pop gets, so take another listen.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (krQz2)

My brain is weird. It's been literally years since I heard that one, but it popped into my brain immediately.

Oh sure, I keep having to look up how to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle, but yeah, let's hear some dumb song in my ears unbidden.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (0aYVJ)

264 In case anyone read my 204-- clarification:

I have a cell *and* a landline. BIL would call landline repeatedly, and fill up the answering machine... So I switched it off.

Texted him to only use my cell # from now on, and to ONLY TEXT me.

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

265 Linda R covered "Heatwave"

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (ZxPkt)

266 I got to call obnoxious twats from Denmark "colonizers" haha
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (Sv5iI)

Tell them you are sending a check in the mail.*

*Denmark's post office is ceasing mail delivery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)

267 Its true though, they speak on behalf of Greenland and never consider that maybe Greenland doesn't want to be ruled by Denmark

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (Sv5iI)

268 I was watching the press conference.

https://is.gd/9SKcMq

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:15 PM (5DEFi)

269 Denmark is asshoe.

Posted by: Greenland at December 23, 2025 11:15 PM (Q+gd/)

270 Listening to How Long right now, it's ironic how the bass is featured at the beginning of the song.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (krQz2)

271 Rick Springfield remade a Sammy Hagar song and took it to number 1. Sammy was all WTF? He asked Rick what he did different.

"Well, Sammy, you're not that good looking a guy....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Zz0t1)

Best of Rick Springfield is pretty good. I didn’t realize how many hit songs he had.,

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (KDPiq)

272 On Christmas Eve eve even.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (5DEFi)

273
*Denmark's post office is ceasing mail delivery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)

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The Indian Danish Butter Cookie scandal has thrown the country into chaos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (+HNx/)

274 258
Finger above the Heart, keeps the swelling down, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM

Yes, her Aunt N (who is really just my good friend) is an RN, she told her to do that and to take a picture of it every morning to see if it’s getting worse or better, especially as we want to make sure it doesn’t get infected.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:17 PM (p4NUW)

275 Denmark, population 6 million, trying to bark over Greenland.

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:17 PM (Sv5iI)

276
A singer who is also a bona fide musician:

https://is.gd/77otLE

(It's Quarterflash, and she plays the Sax)

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:18 PM (0RrTI)

277 It’s swollen and hurts tonight, lidocaine is gone now. She is taking Motrin, but is being a trooper and still trying to help with Christmas prep and all the animals. We got nitrile gloves today so she can take a shower and keep it dry, she was very excited about this.
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (p4NUW)

Being a bossy womman, did the ED put her on an antibiotic? IF the cut went into a joint? I fret about stuff like this.

I can't believe all you did today baking. I have become pitiful, altho I did get some stuff done.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:18 PM (WONhk)

278 Ralston originated the Chex line of cereals, didn't they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)

And he's My Favorite Martian

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (wVcYX)

279 Rick Springfield remade a Sammy Hagar song and took it to number 1. Sammy was all WTF? He asked Rick what he did different.

"Well, Sammy, you're not that good looking a guy....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Zz0t1)

Best of Rick Springfield is pretty good. I didn’t realize how many hit songs he had.,
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (KDPiq)
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Tao is a solid album.

It's funny that his first moderate hit was "She Called Me Bruce" (Springsteen)

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (krQz2)

280
Did Quarterflash have any more hits?
Because they appear to be legit musicians.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (0RrTI)

281 We have cities bigger than Denmark

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (Sv5iI)

282 Denmark has their own language. They think people should learn it.

6m people in DK. Out of 7.5 bn. Yeah, your language will be Latin bound........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (Zz0t1)

283 The DE press conference didn't get into details.

https://is.gd/9SKcMq

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (5DEFi)

284 Cookie Crisp even.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (5DEFi)

285
What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?

I'm going with Trumpet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)

286
or Violin?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:21 PM (0RrTI)

287 Well, I'm spending Christmas alone. Yay.

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (Sv5iI)

288 And he's My Favorite Martian
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (wVcYX)

That was Ray Walston. In later years, he got into selling auto upholstery kits for classic cars. I talked on the phone with him once, trying to get a price on some seat covers. Not pleasant guy to deal with, but RIP nonetheless.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

289 Accordion

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (+HNx/)

290 >>>There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

>Is three times a day too many? Also there's a bug going around. I'm feeling quite liberated. The jettison of excess mass is rejuvenating, and can restore flexibility. My spine popped as if I had just been to a chiropractor.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (nljXp)

291 Me too.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (5DEFi)

292
Because I guarantee for any "great" song you can think of, it will have either a Sax, or Trumpet, or Violin, or Xylophone.

*btw, I don't even know what a xylophone is and might be confusing it with some other keyboard instrument.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (0RrTI)

293 That's fine. My Christmas has been blue for a long time anyway
so its status quo

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (Sv5iI)

294 What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?

I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)
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That's the one that Michael Hutchence called for in What You Need.

However, there are some songs of Kansas where Steve Walsh's marimba adds a completely different element.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (krQz2)

295
Accordion
Posted by: Cicero

That's exactly 1 song. By The Who.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (0RrTI)

296 Well, I'm spending Christmas alone. Yay.
Posted by: Fen
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I will visit hubs at nursing home for a few hours, but will be otherwise alone. Meh.

Merry Christmas to you!

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

297 >>>There's been way too much talk about bowel movements today.

Aliasassinmouth was around earlier.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (5DEFi)

298 Sorry Boss

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (Sv5iI)

299
Being a bossy womman, did the ED put her on an antibiotic? IF the cut went into a joint? I fret about stuff like this.

I can't believe all you did today baking. I have become pitiful, altho I did get some stuff done.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23

No, she said if it starts to get red and hot, they would call something in. I changed the bandage today, it looks yucky, of course, but not infected yucky. We decided she should keep the brace on a bit longer than a day because it’s really hard to avoid bending it.

And I only wrapped 3 presents. I have our Christmas lights class tomorrow at 930, Church at 1230, and will be running around like a psycho getting everything else finished after. 😂

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (p4NUW)

300 *btw, I don't even know what a xylophone is and might be confusing it with some other keyboard instrument.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (0RrTI)

It's a woodwind, intermediate between an ocarina, and a swynet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (npFr7)

301 Did Quarterflash have any more hits?
Because they appear to be legit musicians.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (0RrTI)

They had one big album, but several hits:
Harden my Heart
Find Another Fool
Don't be Lonely

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (EOjZq)

302 What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?

I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)

I vote sax.

Al Stewart had his hits with a sax. 'Baker Street'. Fer gawd's sake, 'Yakity Sax'.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)

303 I never noticed the nice prog rock organ in the Crowded House song before. Very nice.

Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (CJqnd)

304 Did Quarterflash have any more hits?
Because they appear to be legit musicians.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (0RrTI)
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I was listening to AOR when they came out, so I don't know if Find Another Fool was ever released as a single.

It rocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcICuFnkxe4

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (krQz2)

305 Marimba > Xylophone

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (Zz0t1)

306 230 Ralston originated the Chex line of cereals, didn't they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)

Yes they did. I had a Chex rag scarecrow doll when I was a kid, a giveaway from Ralston by sending in Chex cereal box tops.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (y171U)

307 It's odd that the slide whistle was virtually ignored by the great classical composers of the 18th century. It might have added some real zip to Hansel's Messiah.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (+HNx/)

308 285
What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?

I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)

I thought it was a stand up bass.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (Hd1lH)

309
Anyone here from Delaware and have the scoop on who shot the State Trooper at the DMV?
Posted by: Opinion fact

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And why? Apparently the DMV customer just walked up to the deputy providing security and shot him twice.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (n7rxJ)

310
How come Grandpa Joe was not afflic

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (xG4kz)

311 Wheat Chex!
Rice Chex!
Shot from guns!
Kapow!

Posted by: Ralston at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (zwYaq)

312
afflicted with bed sores?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (xG4kz)

313 Bagpipes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (Zz0t1)

314 How long has a pretty good bass line for back then.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (5DEFi)

315 287 Well, I'm spending Christmas alone. Yay.
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11

I am sorry, I don’t get to see my older girls, that always makes my heart hurt. I miss them.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (p4NUW)

316 "I will visit hubs at nursing home for a few hours, but will be otherwise alone. Meh."

Fck me, that's what I'll do. Instead of having a pity party,

"Merry Christmas to you!"

And to you, thanks for the nudge

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (Sv5iI)

317 The shooter got killed later.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (5DEFi)

318 Al Stewart had his hits with a sax. 'Baker Street'. Fer gawd's sake, 'Yakity Sax'.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)

Sax is a very big part of pop music and blues. Many, many rock and roll songs have a sax solo. Trumpet more commonly heard in jazz, although sax is big there, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)

319 Some of you probably remember when Cheap Trick did "The Green Police" for an Audi commercial that everybody hated. The full version is on YouTube, and it actually sounds much better than the original Dream Police. Virtually note for note, but they really punched it up.

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (VR9YU)

320 Mama got a squeeze box, Daddy don't sleep at night.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (EOjZq)

321
It was a Quaker Oats cereal that was shot from guns (to the tune of the cannons' portion of the "1812 Overture").

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (xG4kz)

322 I remember getting a little 45 record in cereal as well. Iirc it was Romantics Talking in Your Sleep

Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (YwEeS)

323 318 Al Stewart had his hits with a sax. 'Baker Street'. Fer gawd's sake, 'Yakity Sax'.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)

Sax is a very big part of pop music and blues. Many, many rock and roll songs have a sax solo. Trumpet more commonly heard in jazz, although sax is big there, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)

Horns made Chicago Transit Authority memorable.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (EOjZq)

324 Sax definitely makes the sexiest songs, and the most mournful. I’m thinking of the chef’s kiss sax solo at the end of Alan Parsons Project “Old and Wise”.

Also the solo at the end of Dan Fogelbergs “Same old lang syne”.

Maybe it’s sappy but that last one always makes me tear up a little.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (FvUgT)

325 Grandpa Joe was a diq.

Posted by: Galt at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (9UnaD)

326 Saxy:

https://youtu.be/X-BJVDuP9dI

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (rdVOm)

327 Al Stewart had his hits with a sax.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)
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I do like Year of the Cat.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (krQz2)

328 45 records were like what a dollar?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (5DEFi)

329 Pookysgirl, my heart and prayers go out to you.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (y171U)

330
Yeah, doesn't 25 or 6 to 4 have Trumpets?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (0RrTI)

331 What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?

I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)

Foghat casts a strong vote for saxophone..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4r1V6IAZE

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (nbLIj)

332 I think Baker Street had a sax solo because the guitarist who was hired to do that solo didn't show up at the studio for recording.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)

333
Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (xG4kz)

334 330
Yeah, doesn't 25 or 6 to 4 have Trumpets?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (0RrTI)

Yes indeed. And a trombone

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (EOjZq)

335 I remember it was really flimsy and it had to be punched out of a square, I don't think it played too well. They might have put them in magazines even I vaguely remember that.

Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (YwEeS)

336 I got my sister to give me Styx's Come Sail Away.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:32 PM (5DEFi)

337 The sax adds nothing to one of Kansas' cringiest songs, It Takes A Woman's Love (To Make A Man).

* shudder *

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:33 PM (krQz2)

338 Denmark has their own language. They think people should learn it.

6m people in DK. Out of 7.5 bn. Yeah, your language will be Latin bound........
Posted by: Sponge

Hvat?

Posted by: Faroese at December 23, 2025 11:33 PM (nhCoE)

339 Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (xG4kz)

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Puffa Puffa Rice had an entire marketing campaign centered around demeaning the culture of Pacific Islanders.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:33 PM (+HNx/)

340 I thought Baker Street was Gerry Rafferty. It was a great song at any rate.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (rghSL)

341
Ignore the song in this video -- Who is this woman in the first 5 seconds? She looks familiar but I can't ID her.

https://is.gd/9vx1AQ

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (0RrTI)

342 I think Baker Street had a sax solo because the guitarist who was hired to do that solo didn't show up at the studio for recording.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
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Doesn't Rafferty do his own guitar work?

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (krQz2)

343 I remember it was really flimsy and it had to be punched out of a square, I don't think it played too well. They might have put them in magazines even I vaguely remember that.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (YwEeS)

Mad Magazine had records incorporated into the magazine cover in several issues. Musically speaking, they were quite well produced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (npFr7)

344 No, she said if it starts to get red and hot, they would call something in. I changed the bandage today, it looks yucky, of course, but not infected yucky. We decided she should keep the brace on a bit longer than a day because it’s really hard to avoid bending it.

And I only wrapped 3 presents. I have our Christmas lights class tomorrow at 930, Church at 1230, and will be running around like a psycho getting everything else finished after. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (p4NUW)

Ok. The two injuries of son & husband that are similar required an antibiotic. Hard to heal joints, &, yeah, keep that brace on. Poor girl.

My family likes to wound themselves like this on major holidays. Husband did on Easter, requiring a later surgeon (hand surgeon only for hands!!!).

I once went to the ED after cutting my finger.While stupidly cutting potatoes IN the boiling water. I am just as bad as them.I think that was Christmas Eve.

Maybe it's a Southern thing to run around with your hair on fire at least one day before Christmas?

We will be at 4pm Mass at 3pm due to crowds. Our grands & church always give me peace. Then dinner.

Right now it's Advil and a heating pad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (WONhk)

345
Instant Ralston hot cereal as advertised in the 1950's radio show "Space Patrol". With announcer Dick Tufeld who later did the voice of the robot on Lost in Space.
Posted by: Joemarine

I still have some of that in my kitchen cabinet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (pkeXY)

346 59 cents for a 45 even.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (5DEFi)

347 Marimba > Xylophone
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (Zz0t1)

I was working on a marimba / xylophone group of songs a while back for Club ONT. Don't recall if I used them.
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
Rolling Stones - Under my Thumb

I had a few more but can't recall them right now.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:36 PM (QMAsf)

348 There are so many crazy people on the internet. I just read a piece about a woman who thinks CK is alive and being hidden in the White House. The video of him being killed was a hologram to fool us all. And there were people in the comments agreeing with her. Some even said Trump is going to bring him out of hiding and then resign because of everything in the Epstein files, make JD president and CK the vice president. Where did all of this mental illness come from?

Posted by: Megthered at December 23, 2025 11:36 PM (BI0Xv)

349 I had a few more but can't recall them right now.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:36 PM (QMAsf)

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We've Been Having Fun All Summer Long

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (+HNx/)

350 I think Baker Street had a sax solo because the guitarist who was hired to do that solo didn't show up at the studio for recording.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
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Doesn't Rafferty do his own guitar work?
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (krQz2)
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Apparently, he only did acoustic on City to City.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (krQz2)

351 The electro-theremin.

Posted by: Good Vibrations at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (wVcYX)

352 Had things been a little bit different, England would not have been named after the Germanic tribe called the Angles, but would have been named instead after the Germanic tribe called the Saxons, and would be known today as Sexland. The language would have been "Sexish" the native speakers would be considered "Saxophones" and the accent would be considered "Sexy"

So we can all be thankful for small things.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:39 PM (rbvCR)

353 Ignore the song in this video -- Who is this woman in the first 5 seconds? She looks familiar but I can't ID her.

https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (0RrTI)

Jackie Swanson, if you can believe the internet. Naked in Lethal Weapon 1

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:39 PM (EOjZq)

354 I dream of a day where there are no Commie dumb fucks left to feed the sharks so we just find feral pigs and invasive snakes in the Everglades to feed them.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (W4R97)

355 What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer

or Violin?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Why choose just one? Bring the whole orchestra!

https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo?t=30

.....a solid showing by the french horns.

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)

356 351 The electro-theremin

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The worlds greatest theremin player says he hasn't touched it in years.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (+HNx/)

357 The electro-theremin.
Posted by: Good Vibrations

Is there an acoustic one?

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)

358 The band Foreigner made great use of the sax.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (snZF9)

359 The electro-theremin.

Posted by: Good Vibrations at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (wVcYX)
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Occasionally used by prog-metal band Haken.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (krQz2)

360 Here's Canadian vibraphone master Peter Appleyard, sitting in with the Downchild Blues Band, Jane Vasey on piano. Horn section, too.

https://youtu.be/cCR1KDxAnZ4

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7)

361 Philadelphia City Hall...walked by it twice a day for 2 years while working downtown...would know it anywhere
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)

You'd know it anywhere? Isn't is always in the same place?

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (QMAsf)

362 The theme song from The Love Boat has some nice theremin work in it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (+HNx/)

363
Ignore the song in this video -- Who is this woman in the first 5 seconds? She looks familiar but I can't ID her.

https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer

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Valerie Day, lead singer of Nu Shooz

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (n7rxJ)

364 342 I think Baker Street had a sax solo because the guitarist who was hired to do that solo didn't show up at the studio for recording.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)

Great song! I am partial to the saxophone, thanks to many years of bands with our son. He was a professional but got another degree a decade later to support himself. Music is a dicey thing and I tell him, when he moans about waiting a decade, that he did what he wanted and to be happy about his choice. All is well. He found the right girl and married her vs others (he takes after his father in this area). Other son married his HS sweetheart and never gave us any problems.

He found out that sleeping on tour busses are not fun for almost a year. So he got that out of his system.

This son was the hardest to raise in HS and college, but a great guy in spite of giving me fits. I thought once I was going to shoot blood out of my ears on the phone as he explained, while house sitting for us, that he invited a girl over. If I could have crawled through that line he would probably have not survived.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (WONhk)

365 The band Foreigner made great use of the sax.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (snZF9)

Indeed! As did INXS.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (QMAsf)

366 All the animals have settled in their spots. That is the sign. I am off to bed, friends. Sweet dreams!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (p4NUW)

367 Ignore the song in this video -- Who is this woman in the first 5 seconds? She looks familiar but I can't ID her.

https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer

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Valerie Day, lead singer of Nu Shooz
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (n7rxJ)

Damn it. I can't wait...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (EOjZq)

368 Valerie Day, lead singer of Nu Shooz
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (n7rxJ)
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News shoes.

Posted by: Semi-comatose Leo Johnson at December 23, 2025 11:43 PM (0aYVJ)

369 Sax and violins.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (Q+gd/)

370 Playing the saw with a bow is pretty close to an acoustic therimin.

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (VR9YU)

371 The electro-theremin.
Posted by: Good Vibrations

Is there an acoustic one?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)

It's got a complicated history.

Posted by: Good Vibrations at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (wVcYX)

372 dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum

Kellogs Heap Good Corn Flakes!
(The best thing to happen to corn since the Indians discovered it)
Kellogs Heap Good Corn Flakes!

Posted by: Kellogs at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (JIDSP)

373 Evening all. Thx Doof.
Dream Academy had a pretty good first album . Life in a Northern Town and The Edge of Forever (Featured in Ferris Bueller) . Light stuff, and the keyboard player was a good looking lady

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (2vrAX)

374 I was working on a marimba / xylophone group of songs a while back for Club ONT. Don't recall if I used them.
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
Rolling Stones - Under my Thumb
I had a few more but can't recall them right now.
Posted by: Doof

https://youtu.be/vW7lqJzHkSY

Posted by: mikeski, at 214% normal obscurity at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (nhCoE)

375
Why choose just one? Bring the whole orchestra!

https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo?t=30
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Kind of like Devin Townsend: https://youtu.be/ONZq7xzCKd0?si=p0H_0DdawXyBrgDj

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (krQz2)

376 341 Ignore the song in this video -- Who is this woman in the first 5 seconds? She looks familiar but I can't ID her.

https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (0RrTI)

Looks like that chick from the 2nd or 3rd sequel to the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover cop movies

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (XSP3T)

377 Jimmy Page played a mean therimin.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (Q+gd/)

378
Valerie Day, lead singer of Nu Shooz
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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No, I take that back. I don't believe the internet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (n7rxJ)

379 Sax and violins.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (Q+gd/)
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Martin Mull callback.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (krQz2)

380 I'll be honest, as is my wont. I have never been a fan of the saxamaphone. But it was everywhere in 80s music.

I do, however, like Baker Street.

No sax before a fight. - Frank Drebin

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (0aYVJ)

381
Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may be solved:
https://is.gd/lSc5VL

I saw a headline about this same story on the Daily Mail the other day. Anyway, Black Dahlia murderer and the Zodiac killer were the same guy, according to his.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (w6EFb)

382 Iraq and Iran are both having water problems.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:47 PM (5DEFi)

383 335 I remember it was really flimsy and it had to be punched out of a square, I don't think it played too well. They might have put them in magazines even I vaguely remember that.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (YwEeS)

"Put them in magazines" reminds me of the time Spin Magazine excitedly announced they were including a free condom in one of its issues. To keep the condom from falling out in transit, they stapled it in.

Stapled a condom. What a public service.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:47 PM (Hd1lH)

384 I thought once I was going to shoot blood out of my ears on the phone as he explained, while house sitting for us, that he invited a girl over. If I could have crawled through that line he would probably have not survived.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (WONhk)

At least he wasn't like my brother. My parents went away for the weekend and he brought chicks home and doinked them in my parent's bed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:48 PM (snZF9)

385
Megthered, the purpose of gaslighting isn't to change your mind, it's to convince You the gaslighter actually believes what he's saying, and when you do, it will then make You second-guess your own beliefs.

Meg, your reaction tells me the gaslighting worked -- you believe *they* believe those absurd things about Charlie Kirk and Trump and Epstein. They don't. But you think they do, and now you're questioning things you shouldn't waste a moment on. That's Gaslighting.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (0RrTI)

386 It probably pays to know what they look like, the original run of Theremins were fairly expensive at the time and they didn’t make very many. They are rare today and at least until recently were very collectible and sell for serious coin.

Posted by: RCA at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (JIDSP)

387
Bad news from Southwest Airlines if you're pudgy, portly, or stout.

American airline hits plus-size travelers with new policy forcing them to buy two seats

___________.

I'm big boned.

*eats pie and one dozen donuts*
*drinks Diet Coke*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (tgvbd)

388 I have a hard time appreciating the saxophone. On account of Hitler's 1944 album Even the Fuhrer Gets the Blues Sometimes.

Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (NxjzV)

389
Looks like that chick from the 2nd or 3rd sequel to the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover cop movies
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

She does!
The one who drowned, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (0RrTI)

390 Did Erica have a sax solo?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (5DEFi)

391 Lots of saxophone solos on that one.

Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (NxjzV)

392
Jackie Swanson, if you can believe the internet. Naked in Lethal Weapon 1
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Oh, so it is her? Teresa is right.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (0RrTI)

393 Shaka, when the walls fell

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (Sv5iI)

394 My parents went away for the weekend and he brought chicks home and doinked them in my parent's bed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Gross. Wtaf?

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

395 Looks like that chick from the 2nd or 3rd sequel to the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover cop movies
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

She does!
The one who drowned, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (0RrTI)

Absolutely, could be her frigging twin.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:53 PM (snZF9)

396 This is some pretty good sax

https://youtu.be/cq6jquFrb08

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:53 PM (ZxPkt)

397 351 The electro-theremin

The worlds greatest theremin player says he hasn't touched it in years.
Posted by: Cicero

The only time I saw a theremin played live, it was these guys (and gal). And this song:

https://youtu.be/JpiVFAZfF5k?t=216

"t=216" is cued to theremin solo.

Posted by: mikeski, at 117% normal obscurity at December 23, 2025 11:55 PM (nhCoE)

398
Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may be solved:
https://is.gd/lSc5VL

I saw a headline about this same story on the Daily Mail the other day. Anyway, Black Dahlia murderer and the Zodiac killer were the same guy, according to his.
Posted by: publius

==============

That is CRAZY. What's so weird about it to me is that the Black Dahlia killer seemed motivated by hatred of Elizabeth Short, saying she deserved it -- as if she'd led him on or two-timed him in some way. He knew her, and it was personal.

The Zodiac killer was absolutely off his rocker, killing strangers because he needed slaves for the afterlife.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:55 PM (n7rxJ)

399 Renee Russo or... Anka? The blonde he hooks up with in the second one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:55 PM (zZu0s)

400 Jimmy Page played a mean therimin.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (Q+gd/)
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There wasn't time to get a kinder one, I here.

Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:56 PM (krQz2)

401 My parents went away for the weekend and he brought chicks home and doinked them in my parent's bed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Do you have their numbers?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:57 PM (dAOkg)

402
Next up, Southwest goes to "10 across" seating on their 737s, forcing everybody who weighs more than 75 lbs to buy two or more seats.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
- - - - - --

Nope, galley seating.
Passengers will be expected to man oars to help in the flight of the aircraft.
If they behave, they will be allowed to have a tiny bag of pretzels.

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 23, 2025 11:57 PM (sIAVO)

403 The Zodiac killer was absolutely off his rocker, killing strangers because he needed slaves for the afterlife.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Also dont believe all the killings that have been assigned to Zodiac were him. If it was just one person.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (MGB5H)

404 The girl in the start of the video is Patsy Kensit. She was Riggs' South African girlfriend in Lethal Weapon 2. If you go to the end of the video clip, the presenter says her name.

Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (Epuwl)

405 The singer from Nu Shooz looks like Patsy Kensit from Lethal Weapon 2.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (2vrAX)

406 My parents went away for the weekend and he brought chicks home and doinked them in my parent's bed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Gross. Wtaf?

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

My brother is nothing like me musically, or even culturally in a lot of ways, but I will say I was proud in a way because its the most metal frigging thing he ever did. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (snZF9)

407 Who weighs 75 pounds?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (5DEFi)

408 Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may be solved:
https://is.gd/lSc5VL

I saw a headline about this same story on the Daily Mail the other day. Anyway, Black Dahlia murderer and the Zodiac killer were the same guy, according to his.
Posted by: publius

21 years apart with nothing in between?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (dAOkg)

409 At least he wasn't like my brother. My parents went away for the weekend and he brought chicks home and doinked them in my parent's bed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:48 PM (snZF9)

He did not do this. He did, however, invite her dog over,too. Who peed on the rug in the guest bathroom.He fenced off the dog with kitchen chairs, he said! I guess I am grateful for that small mercy.

He knew better but we were thousands of miles away. He explained all this when he was safely back in college. He was there to dog sit our Golden, not to invite his girlfriend of the month over.

Heaven knows what my BP was when I was on the phone with him. He knew better. He also knew we'd figure it out. He turned our house into a romantic weekend and, oh, boy.

My husband,who I blame for this son, would have huge parties when his parents were out of town. I warned our boys that our neighbors would simply call us. At least all that was destroyed was a bath mat.

He dated so many girls that there were 2 Amy's and 3 Christinas & others. We refer to them as Amy the First and so on. Mr. Hot Stuff since 9th grade. I was mortified from then on.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (WONhk)

410
393 Shaka, when the walls fell
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (Sv5iI)

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Dammit it’s like shave and a haircut.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (FvUgT)

411 My parents went away for a week, only lil bro (teen) left at home. I was living in an apartment complex across the street and Mom had asked me to water her potted plants while they were gone.

Friday night-- all the lights were on and I could see *several people* were at parents' house! Party went late into the night...

Next morning, I loaded up my trusty SuperSoaker™ and walked over there at 8 a.m.

Unlocked the front door. Stepped inside. Listened. All was quiet.

1/2

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

412 @404 PabloD, Horde mind, didn't watch the whole thing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (2vrAX)

413 Who weighs 75 pounds?
Posted by: Boss Moss

8 yr olds.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (dAOkg)

414 He dated so many girls that there were 2 Amy's and 3 Christinas & others. We refer to them as Amy the First and so on. Mr. Hot Stuff since 9th grade. I was mortified from then on.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Almost my entire dating history before she hobbit is all J names. Multiple jen/jennifers, multiple Jessica's Julie/julia etc

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:01 AM (MGB5H)

415 Baldwin the leper took down Saladin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:02 AM (5DEFi)

416 355 What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer

or Violin?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Why choose just one? Bring the whole orchestra!

https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo?t=30

.....a solid showing by the french horns.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)

A stand-up bass, of course!

-Buck T.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 24, 2025 12:02 AM (0CU3H)

417 394 My parents went away for the weekend and he brought chicks home and doinked them in my parent's bed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

We asked the gal down the street, one of our daughter's friends, to swing by the house every day to take care of the animals while we were on Christmas break.

Apparently, she brought her younger sister along with her, and little sister came back later with her boyfriend and they got busy in our bed. The white stains on the sheets and the fact that they were bunched up at the foot of the bed gave it away.

We made Daughter put new sheets on our bed ***shudder***.

Daughter's friend was mortified.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (XSP3T)

418
Nope, galley seating.
Passengers will be expected to man oars to help in the flight of the aircraft.
If they behave, they will be allowed to have a tiny bag of pretzels.
Posted by: As not seen on TV

If I'm lucky I'll get seat 41.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (pkeXY)

419 There's good recap of the Black Dahlia/ Zodiac suspect in the NY Post. Guy had PTSD from his service during the battle of Okinawa as a medic. Medical training, in and out of Cali a number of times, a suspect in the Black Dahlia killing who had been interviewed by cops. Other things as well. Guy makes a pretty strong case

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (2vrAX)

420
The girl in the start of the video is Patsy Kensit. She was Riggs' South African girlfriend in Lethal Weapon 2. If you go to the end of the video clip, the presenter says her name.
Posted by: PabloD

Nice work, Sherlock.
I should've watched the video.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (0RrTI)

421 We asked the gal down the street, one of our daughter's friends, to swing by the house every day to take care of the animals while we were on Christmas break.

Apparently, she brought her younger sister along with her, and little sister came back later with her boyfriend and they got busy in our bed. The white stains on the sheets and the fact that they were bunched up at the foot of the bed gave it away.

We made Daughter put new sheets on our bed ***shudder***.

Daughter's friend was mortified.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

I mean just clean the sheets. That's what we always did.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)

422 What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer

or Violin?
Posted by: Soothsayer

What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle?

A violin has four strings and a short neck.
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:06 AM (dAOkg)

423 Patsy Kensit started her rise to fame doing Birdseye Frozen Peas commercials as a child.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:07 AM (5DEFi)

424 So, I just looked it up. I'm wrong about Haken using the theremin. Their keyboardists used the "Haken Continuum Fingerboard" which also allows continuous pitch control like a theremin.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (krQz2)

425 21 years apart with nothing in between?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (dAOkg)

You should look it up - it’s an amazing story, and very convincing. The key is that the Zodiac Killer, when challenged by a news reporter, wrote his name into a 13 figure cryptograph that could never be cracked. This amateur detective used AI for months to finally crack the cryptograph - and it turns out to be the name of the top suspect in the Black Dahlia murder, a name that was never released to the public.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (FvUgT)

426 What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle?

A violin has four strings and a short neck.
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck.
Posted by: rickb223

A violin is for nerds

A fiddle is a legit instrument.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (MGB5H)

427 182 82 My cereal was made by a dogfood company. Ralston Purina. Freakies.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Geez, I never thought about it like that. I hope their cereal didn't have horse meat in it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

Mars, Inc. was in the pet food business almost as long as it was in the candy business. In fact, they bought the first company that made pet food (UK company). They make more money in pet goods and vet offices than they do in candy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (0CU3H)

428 287 Well, I'm spending Christmas alone. Yay.
Posted by: Fen
.................................
I'll be spending mine at work.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (sAmhv)

429 A violin has four strings and a short neck.
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:06 AM (dAOkg)
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Robbie Steinhardt of Kansas played both.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:09 AM (krQz2)

430 421 We asked the gal down the street, one of our daughter's friends, to swing by the house every day to take care of the animals while we were on Christmas break.

Apparently, she brought her younger sister along with her, and little sister came back later with her boyfriend and they got busy in our bed. The white stains on the sheets and the fact that they were bunched up at the foot of the bed gave it away.

We made Daughter put new sheets on our bed ***shudder***.

Daughter's friend was mortified.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

I mean just clean the sheets. That's what we always did.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)

I'm the captain now.

Posted by: Somali Bed Soiler at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (NxjzV)

431 2/2

Went downstairs to lil bro's room. Ah! Lump in the bed.
"Arise young mutant, and face your destiny!" Body bolts upright, gets face full of water... Uh... Ooops, not lil bro!
(He, whoever he was, slumped back down to resume slumber)

Upstairs. Ah! Seen just the very top of blond-ish hair in the living room recliner: "Hey! Wake tf up!" Chair turns, soaker squirts... Uh... Again, not lil bro! Victim groans but goes back to sleep.

Over to parents' bedroom. Lump under covers. *This better be lil bro and he'd better be alone!*

Yank back covers. Kid is spread-eagle (alone) and passed out drunk.

SuperSoaked him top to bottom & back up. Told him to clean it all up, parents were coming back TODAY instead of tomorrow.

LMFAO and went home.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

432 Patsy Kensit started her rise to fame doing Birdseye Frozen Peas commercials as a child.
Posted by: Boss Moss

She should have stuck with it. Adult Patsy telling me to "give peas a chance" would have worked.

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (nhCoE)

433 Anyway

DOOF!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (dIJjD)

434
Almost my entire dating history before she hobbit is all J names. Multiple jen/jennifers, multiple Jessica's Julie/julia etc
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:01 AM (MGB5H)

That would be dicey after a few drinks, or pretend to stutter.

I told our sons early on that sex could kill them (AIDS). I am surprised they are not monks.

I'd tell horror stories from the ED to scare them about STD's and other things.

They both were "designated drivers" til they turned 20yrs. They told me when they had their first beer, so they were honest (other than this one driving me insane).

In HS I told them I could tell as I do have a nose like a bloodhound. They never did smoke pot or drink because Mama would greet them at curfew for a hug goodnight.

We owned their cars and helped pay for college. This and them not wanting to tick us off kept them basically pretty good compared to what others went through. They knew we don't mess around.

What they don't know is how wild their parents were. Never asked and never told them. I read a paper in HS by this son saying we had high standards and waited for lightening to strike me quite dead. But we did have high standards for them!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (WONhk)

435 Patsy Kensit's father was involved in the Great Train Robbery.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:11 AM (5DEFi)

436 He dated so many girls that there were 2 Amy's and 3 Christinas & others. We refer to them as Amy the First and so on. Mr. Hot Stuff since 9th grade. I was mortified from then on.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

That would be my brother. The paulo is a frigging piker next to him. He spent an entire summer down the jersey shore one year and didn't spend a dime on rent. He shacked up with a different chick every week. Him and his friends. They would meet a group of girls who rented a house for the week and its party time. He would fall asleep on the beach and wake up to some hot chick laying next to him. He was out of control. You look up chick magnet in the dictionary and his picture is there. In 1985 he bought a brand new trans am. He came up from the shore to pick it up from the dealer, drove it back down to the shore and parked it for a week. Who the hell does that? Him, he does that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)

437 The suspect named was Marvin Margolis. He apparently moved a lot so he may have killed bin other locations. FBI is reviewing the evidence. They'll say something in 5-10 yrs. Can't have an amateur showing them up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (2vrAX)

438 That would be dicey after a few drinks, or pretend to stutter.

======

That's why you say "oh you" or "oh babe"

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (MGB5H)

439 I mean just clean the sheets. That's what we always did.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)

This lovely young lady was in 6th or 7th grade at the time - executive functioning wasn't her strong suit.

She was a bit of a wild thing. Parents' divorce did bad things to her psyche. I had my suspicions about her stepfather, too.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 12:14 AM (XSP3T)

440 So, I just looked it up. I'm wrong about Haken using the theremin. Their keyboardists used the "Haken Continuum Fingerboard" which also allows continuous pitch control like a theremin.
Posted by: Axeman

Here's Jordan Rudess playing the Continuum with Dream Theater (and we're back to the guessable theme!)

https://youtu.be/2gf8_kVS1OE

Continuum appears at 0:44.

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (nhCoE)

441 SuperSoaked him top to bottom & back up. Told him to clean it all up, parents were coming back TODAY instead of tomorrow.

LMFAO and went home.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

I'm disappointed you didn't pull a Chet from weird science and just bop them on their heads with a shotgun barrel. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

442 mean just clean the sheets. That's what we always did.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)

This lovely young lady was in 6th or 7th grade at the time - executive functioning wasn't her strong suit.

She was a bit of a wild thing. Parents' divorce did bad things to her psyche. I had my suspicions about her stepfather, too.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

To be fair, the lady cleaned the sheets. I didn't know how to do that back then

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (MGB5H)

443 373 Evening all. Thx Doof.
Dream Academy had a pretty good first album . Life in a Northern Town and The Edge of Forever (Featured in Ferris Bueller) . Light stuff, and the keyboard player was a good looking lady
Posted by: Smell the Glove
.....................................
If I recall correctly, David Gilmour produced that album.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 12:17 AM (sAmhv)

444 "I'm surprised you didn't pull a Chet from Weird Science..."

"You die; she walks out of here with a severe limp!" It's a stupid movie, but Bill Paxton was hilarious.

Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)

445 Here's Jordan Rudess playing the Continuum with Dream Theater (and we're back to the guessable theme!)

https://youtu.be/2gf8_kVS1OE

Continuum appears at 0:44.

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (nhCoE)
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Cool. Rather Hackett-ish vibe to that solo.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:22 AM (krQz2)

446 Who the hell does that? Him, he does that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)

Legend.

When my bf was getting serious about me, he and a good friend went out for beers. I was studying, as that's what I did.

He came back to my apt to tell me this story. Apparently a good looking girl was in the bar and had car trouble. Brand new car. My guy and his friend tried to do whatever to the carburetor and started the engine on fire. Burned the engine and hood badly.They claimed to know what they were doing, but beer was involved, and it was the friend's idea.

My husband gives her a ride home to her parent's and our friend puts the moves on her. After burning up her new car the friend and the girl were making out in the backseat. I do admit this friend was good looking (half Navajo/half Mexican).

I had to laugh when he told me this story. I am pretty sure her father was not laughing when she told him about her car the next day.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 12:22 AM (WONhk)

447 It's a stupid movie, but Bill Paxton was hilarious.

Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)
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Sympatico on that.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (krQz2)

448 AI could have solved the BTK murders or at least provided a suspect to further investigate.

There were more than a few seemingly insignificant connections with Dennis Rader with the 1000’s of pieces of info that had been gathered.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (KDPiq)

449 A saxophone is an ill wind that nobody blows good.

Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (oftw2)

450 It's Christmas Eve.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:24 AM (5DEFi)

451 A violin has four strings and a short neck.
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck
.....................................
A violin plays Mozart
A fiddle plays Bill Monroe

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 12:24 AM (sAmhv)

452 A saxophone is an ill wind that nobody blows good.
Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (oftw2)
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First you will blow me.

Posted by: Tenor Saxophone at December 24, 2025 12:27 AM (krQz2)

453 >>>Shaka, when the walls fell
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (Sv5iI)

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Dammit it’s like shave and a haircut.

Posted by: Tom Servo

>Fascinating.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 12:27 AM (nljXp)

454 Weird Science was a brilliant slice of life. An elegant, sophisticated romp. Almost an homage to the French cinema of the 1960s. I screen it daily. It both comforts and surprises with each viewing.

Posted by: Gene Siskel in Hell at December 24, 2025 12:27 AM (NxjzV)

455 65 I'm glad that music list did not contain "These Dreams" by reconstituted Heart.

That comes from their No Good Hits period.

She could still sing incredibly but once Heart lost the original guys they basically were like late Jefferson Starship compared to Jefferson Airplane.

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 24, 2025 12:28 AM (3/XaG)

456 You should look it up - it’s an amazing story, and very convincing. The key is that the Zodiac Killer, when challenged by a news reporter, wrote his name into a 13 figure cryptograph that could never be cracked. This amateur detective used AI for months to finally crack the cryptograph - and it turns out to be the name of the top suspect in the Black Dahlia murder, a name that was never released to the public.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I read the NY Post article. It's possible. His timeline is tight. 16 in '43, 17 in '44 & 18 in '45 because he was 20 in 47.
B 10-15-27.

Front line medic with enough combat after basic & medical training that he had ptsd? In one to two years?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:29 AM (dAOkg)

457 It's a stupid movie, but Bill Paxton was hilarious.

Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)

Don’t know why but ‘’why don’t you shut up bitch’ to the motorcycle chick was the funniest scene to me.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 12:29 AM (KDPiq)

458 Cool. Rather Hackett-ish vibe to that solo.
Posted by: Axeman

Changing keyboardists from Sherinian to Rudess was a much bigger change to DT's sound than changing from Moore to Sherinian.

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:30 AM (nhCoE)

459 I'm disappointed you didn't pull a Chet from weird science and just bop them on their heads with a shotgun barrel. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Heh. I'm not *that* mean!

Was actually surprised, but relieved, that there were no girls there that morning. (Doesn't mean nothing happened overnight)

He should've thanked me for letting him know about parents' early return! Guess he was way too busy, clearing out all the empty beers and *other evidence* of the party.

Bonus! They'd raided the upright freezer and didn't re-latch the door-- much thawed food. Mom was furious!

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

460 "I'm surprised you didn't pull a Chet from Weird Science..."

"You die; she walks out of here with a severe limp!" It's a stupid movie, but Bill Paxton was hilarious.

Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)

Yeah he was great in that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9)

461 I'm out. Merry Christmas Eve.

Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:34 AM (Epuwl)

462 @443 Puddlegum, you are correct. Gilmour also helped Kate Bush get her start

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:35 AM (2vrAX)

463 Nope, I dont believe anything these idiots say. I dont carewhy they're doing this, if they're crazy or trying to manipulate the message. But there are people that believe this, like my brother in law who sends things like this and even worse, to me daily.

Posted by: Megthered at December 24, 2025 12:36 AM (BI0Xv)

464 Vince Guaraldi died at a gig. The guys in a band I was in used to joke that the bass player would poke his body with his bow during an extended drum solo to make it look like he was still alive so they could get paid.

You have to be a gigging musician to understand.

Posted by: pawn at December 24, 2025 12:37 AM (EMg+d)

465 Here's Jordan Rudess playing the Continuum with Dream Theater (and we're back to the guessable theme!)
https://youtu.be/2gf8_kVS1OE
Continuum appears at 0:44.
Posted by: mikeski

Also, how about being an orchestra asked to play behind Dream Theater?

Conductor: "We're playing backup for a metal band."

First Violin: "This'll be boring."

Conductor: "Here's the sheet music for Octavarium."

First Violin: "163 time signature changes? What the heck?"

Conductor: "And here's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence."

First Violin: "275??? Where'd you find these guys?"

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:38 AM (nhCoE)

466 203 My festivus complaint is me

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (WONhk)

Christy - you sound exactly like Mrs ARiK

Pookysgirl - so sorry to hear of your possible loss. Wish you strength to meet the challenges ahead and peace in your heart.

BeckoningChasm - I don't know much of your personal situation but hope you find value and meaning in the days ahead. Every one of us is important and each of us has value. Hang in there!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 12:42 AM (QGaXH)

467 Bonus! They'd raided the upright freezer and didn't re-latch the door-- much thawed food. Mom was furious!

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

There were never any wild parties at parent's houses when I was in high school. There was one..ONE, and that served as a warning in the area why not to do it. The house got destroyed, and I mean like weird science destroyed. Rugs, walls, china cabinet over turned, tables, etc. It was legend, and it scared the shit out of anybody even thinking of pulling a stunt like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:43 AM (snZF9)

468 The three boy children are all here. I have had to light not one but two balsam scented candles. We went out to lunch and had beer. nachos, buffalo wings and more beer. The farting contest has begun. I do so love Christmas.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 24, 2025 12:43 AM (0nHVk)

469 Hi, Debby!

LOL, fart-wars...

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)

470 There were never any wild parties at parent's houses when I was in high school. There was one..ONE, and that served as a warning in the area why not to do it. The house got destroyed, and I mean like weird science destroyed. Rugs, walls, china cabinet over turned, tables, etc. It was legend, and it scared the shit out of anybody even thinking of pulling a stunt like that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

The kids I went to school with had those crazy parties. We had parties that were kept into the tight group of friends. Not that i didint have to fix a wall. But mostly contained

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:45 AM (MGB5H)

471 Bers, my lil bro was the only one of us kids that *dared* to pull the sh!t he pulled... "The Baby" got away with
e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

The rest of us? Well, let's just say we wouldn't be here now, if we had done the same.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

472 Bers, my lil bro was the only one of us kids that *dared* to pull the sh!t he pulled... "The Baby" got away with
e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

The rest of us? Well, let's just say we wouldn't be here now, if we had done the same.
Posted by: JQ at December

I broke allllll the rules and had to sneak around. Then I'm getting pictures of my sister (7 years younger) having huge parties by the pool. Still salty about it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:48 AM (MGB5H)

473 I have to admit that I have avoided listening to Dream Theater, since Images and Words never impressed me as much as it did some of my friends.

Pull Me Under has always been one of my favorite tracks from them, but the rest of I&W seemed a little ... twee, IIRC.

And I had kind of expected DT to be prog-metal for mass consumers.

But in listening to that clip of Octavarium I'm hearing chord progressions reminiscent of Tony Banks, where it keeps a tonal feeling but it doesn't seem to be in any one key. And I'm also hearing quite a bit of Spock's Beard, which might make sense because Portnoy was already a long-time frequent collaborator with Neal Morse by 2005. So, it could be easily the case that he was influenced by the Beard, from the mid-90s.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:49 AM (krQz2)

474 Hell, I remember getting hollered at for stuff I hadn't even done. Some kids of parents' friends had (fill in the blank) and I'd get screamed at about it.

Yeah, at least they didn't *beat* me, right? *eyeroll*

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)

475 Conductor: "We're playing backup for a metal band."

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:38 AM (nhCoE)

Can you imagine being the poor bastards in this orchestra? Some look like they were having a blast actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlELzbY84Go

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:50 AM (snZF9)

476 Festivus!!!

I couldn't 'get away with' anything-- older bro would spy on me all the time, just *itching* to tattle on me for the slightest little bs.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

477 Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)

Yeah he was great in that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9)
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Paxton was it in Near Dark. Many times he's been the one to watch. Of course, Val Kilmer blows him off the screen in Tombstone. Can't win them all.

Really the scenes between Biehn and Kilmer are the highlights of that great.

Biehn is a chameleon.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:54 AM (krQz2)

478 Conductor: "We're playing backup for a metal band."

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:38 AM (nhCoE)

Can you imagine being the poor bastards in this orchestra? Some look like they were having a blast actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlELzbY84Go
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divisio

After kill em all. Metallica S&M is the only Metallica worth listening too.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:55 AM (MGB5H)

479 Happy Christmas Eve!...not here yet due to time change.

Another burnt up car story. I was with a bunch of HS girls at youth club. Back in the Civil War times we had wooden purses (which, I know, was weird).I guess I was known by my purse. I left it in the car.

We were watching a movie at a church (it was interdenominaltion) and a guy came up to me & said, "your car is on fire." It was not my car but my friend's mother's.

We had been smoking cigs en route & a girl threw hers out the window & it came back in and set the backseat on fire. Someone yanked it out & it was smoldering. You could see all the way back to the trunk.

Driving home my friend had the brilliant idea to "run away to NOLA." I said no, because I wasn't going to get into much trouble, & didn't.

We drive to her house & she tells her father. He came roaring out of the house cussing (no one cussed then, & it gave me some stress). I called my mother to come fetch me.

Reasons unknown they put the still smoldering backseat on the front porch of their 100yr old wooden farmhouse. Her older brother came home later & threw it onto the front yard before their house burned down.

Country girls have adventures.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 12:55 AM (WONhk)

480 Bers, my lil bro was the only one of us kids that *dared* to pull the sh!t he pulled... "The Baby" got away with
e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

The rest of us? Well, let's just say we wouldn't be here now, if we had done the same.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

My brother is younger than me by 3 years, so yeah, he got away with it all. Then again, I probably paved the way. Parents had to figure out who to be pissed at more, the gigolo or the asshole metal guitarist. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:59 AM (snZF9)

481 Can you imagine being the poor bastards in this orchestra? Some look like they were having a blast actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlELzbY84Go
Posted by: Berserker

The cellist with the jewfro at the one-minute mark was feeling it!

And the two violinist gals in the front row thought they went hard with the eyeshadow, until they saw the band.

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 01:00 AM (nhCoE)

482 Speaking of cigars, I just opened a 24 stick Tatiana sampler. They smell niiiiiice.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (C0Nlv)

483 Someone up thread mentioned cleaning the barrel and while it sounds disgusting and rude and probably not a topic for polite conversation I propose weTake a vote for the barrel cleaner position.

Posted by: kelly at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (6Nl/W)

484 The cellist with the jewfro at the one-minute mark was feeling it!

And the two violinist gals in the front row thought they went hard with the eyeshadow, until they saw the band.

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 01:00 AM (nhCoE)

Right? lol. One of the string players had all kinds of shit on his face.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (snZF9)

485 483 Someone up thread mentioned cleaning the barrel and while it sounds disgusting and rude and probably not a topic for polite conversation I propose weTake a vote for the barrel cleaner position.
Posted by: kelly at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (6Nl/W

You don't choose the barrel. The barrel chooses you.

Posted by: The Wisdom of The Horde, Book 1, Chapter 3, Verses 8-9 at December 24, 2025 01:06 AM (fkNqv)

486 Watching my favorite Christmas movie right now "the nightmare before Christmas"

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:07 AM (MGB5H)

487 Being sent to The Barrel is punishment.

Barrel gets cleaned by an occupant what gets sent there, IF they wish to be released a bit early. (I think that's a rule. Could be wrong)

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)

488 Sweet dreams, Horde, I am the last one awake and I will be the first to awaken in the morning, I still have some stuff to do.

Bruce Wayne, if you are here, Merry Christmas to you and Mama Wayne and the whole family, She Hobbit too.

I am hitting the tip jar tonight, Horde, before I sleep. ace and the COBs work so hard to inform and entertain us every day and evening. I get to sit here and enjoy it, a lifeline to be sure. Thank you ever so much.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 24, 2025 01:10 AM (0nHVk)

489 Merry Christmas to you and all yours DDS!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:12 AM (MGB5H)

490 Watching my favorite Christmas movie right now "the nightmare before Christmas"

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:07 AM (MGB5H)

Thats a great one. The band playing the christmas carols in that sinister sounding arrangement is a riot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 01:14 AM (snZF9)

491 476 Festivus!!!

I couldn't 'get away with' anything-- older bro would spy on me all the time, just *itching* to tattle on me for the slightest little bs.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

My older sister was the same way. Lived to tattle on me. I spent most of my childhood avoiding her and now haven't heard from her since our parents memorial service ten years ago.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:15 AM (QGaXH)

492 NZ women's rugby rocks.

tiny.cc/1itw001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 24, 2025 01:15 AM (MolB1)

493 Nite, Debby!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 01:15 AM (npFr7)

494 Yeah. Finally Christmas Eve in the Central time zone.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 01:15 AM (dAOkg)

495 'Night, Debby! Merry Christmas & sweet dreams!

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

496 Thats a great one. The band playing the christmas carols in that sinister sounding arrangement is a riot.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

The kids just kidnapped "Sandy claws"

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:16 AM (MGB5H)

497 Marry Christmas

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 01:17 AM (OaZlZ)

498 ARiK-- how sad. But I understand completely!

Big bro was always a jerk, but *times ten* since our parents passed. I cut contact in 2023. Can't stand him.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

499 486 Watching my favorite Christmas movie right now "the nightmare before Christmas"
Posted by: BruceWayne
...........................................
Watching 'A Muppet Christmas Carol' here.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 01:24 AM (sAmhv)

500 Watching my favorite Christmas movie right now "the nightmare before Christmas"
Posted by: BruceWayne
...........................................
Watching 'A Muppet Christmas Carol' here.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer

Also a good one.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:26 AM (MGB5H)

501 Pluribus finale dropped.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 01:31 AM (5DEFi)

502 Thats a great one. The band playing the christmas carols in that sinister sounding arrangement is a riot.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

The kids just kidnapped "Sandy claws"
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:16 AM (MGB5H)

The lil kid holding up his shrunken head is my fav thing ever.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:34 AM (MGB5H)

503 The Doors’ Touch Me, Babe…

Sax solo by studio musician Curtis Amy.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Everyone Should Sing Christmas Carols Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:38 AM (3ZUWJ)

504 Performed On the Smothers Brothers …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECk9A-07Pw

Posted by: Adriane the Not Everyone Should Sing Christmas Carols Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:41 AM (3ZUWJ)

505 pookysgirl - Prayer for Peace and Strength at this Frightening time …

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:43 AM (3ZUWJ)

506 Oh yeah, Doof’s Theme revisited.

Robert Palmer’s cover of I Dream of Wires:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOmoURHDgVM

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:56 AM (3ZUWJ)

507 And 4 minutes to Christmas Eve here …

Good Night, all.

Posted by: Adriane the Kewl Yule & Kicking Kwanza Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:57 AM (3ZUWJ)

508 Christmas Eve. 🎶I waited all year. It's almost here.

Then, it'll be over.🎄 Life's like that.

God bless this Horde of Morons, and comfort our dear pookysgirl especially.

https://youtu.be/Mu8ZA6GUBlk

Have a good tomorrow, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - if you can't have a good one, at least make it through at December 24, 2025 02:07 AM (lNGqL)

509 Still an hour to go, before Christmas Eve.

The ghosts of Christmases Past, dancing in my dreams. Mom. Dad. Grandparents. Friends, pets, memories...

Damned dusty here.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

510 * tap tap
Is this thing on?
There was much house partying around here where I grew up. So much that we would hit 3 or 4 every Friday and Saturday night before heading out to the Carson River or American Flats for the keggers always going on. Half of my 8th grade class got picked up one Saturday night. We had quite the enterprise going on. Security, proliferation of pallets, The one 21 year old who would go into Albertsons and say "I'd like 6 full kegs of Bud please".

Posted by: Reforger at December 24, 2025 02:13 AM (VF6cf)

511 I applaud southwest's new pudgy policy. I was on the receiving end of a long flight next to a very, very overweight woman in the seat next to me. And she had the nerve to turn around and smirk at me when we all deboarded.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 02:41 AM (fovWB)

512 Went back and read the comments and yeah, it dusty in here.
Prayers WAY up.

Posted by: Reforger at December 24, 2025 02:43 AM (VF6cf)

513 507 And 4 minutes to Christmas Eve here …

Good Night, all.
Posted by: Adriane the Kewl Yule & Kicking Kwanza Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:57 AM (3ZUWJ)

an hour behind ya here... but...

Have to admit, I'm not feelin it. Just like many of my White divorced over 50/60 brothers out there... who are spending the 'Holidaze' alone.

We were sold on a fantasy of Christmas, with family and cheer, and presents, and Grandkids....

Yet... are alone. Please... reach out to that loner Sigma, it really would help....

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM (mP0Kj)

514 A late greening to All on this Christmas Eve. I was surprised to see the copyright date on "Life in a Northern Town": 1985.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 02:54 AM (Qab63)

515 https://youtu.be/NHKYMBk3ljs

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:01 AM (rdVOm)

516 We were sold on a fantasy of Christmas, with family and cheer, and presents, and Grandkids....

Yet... are alone. Please... reach out to that loner Sigma, it really would help....
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM

-----

Feeling it here. Fortunately, my brother is kind enough to invite me to his house for dinner with his family.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 03:03 AM (qYbxT)

517 Still an hour to go, before Christmas Eve.

The ghosts of Christmases Past, dancing in my dreams. Mom. Dad. Grandparents. Friends, pets, memories...

Damned dusty here.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah it sucks watching things shrink over the year. My grandmother had a large christmas eve gathering. 20-25 people minimum, sometimes closer to to 30. I watched it all dwindle to just a few of us now at my brother's for christmas eve.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:07 AM (snZF9)

518 Fortunately, my brother is kind enough to invite me to his house for dinner with his family.
Posted by: JM in Illinois
--------

Nice!

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)

519 Yeah, Bers. "watching things shrink"

Says it all.

Like a wool sweater, washed in hot water & tossed into the dryer on High Heat...

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

520 Yet... are alone. Please... reach out to that loner Sigma, it really would help....

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM (mP0Kj)

I do. I moved to a house twice the size so I can have decent christmas gatherings on christmas day, and I make sure a few of my unmarried friends with no families left are here. Mrs b has a few friends in the same position that show up too. I don't have kids, so its an adult gathering, but its something.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:14 AM (snZF9)

521 Lord, many of the Horde are weary and hurting and fearful tonight. Wrap them in your love and remind them that you're still with them- and yes, that's no matter what happens and how tired and grief-filled and disappointed they are. Help us to remember that, always.

In Jesus' precious name,

Amen.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 24, 2025 03:18 AM (0lzjf)

522 Welp, Cat came in. It's cold out thar!

Time for shuteye.

Good night, Horde. We'll make it through the holiday season, yes we will.

Merry Christmas Eve.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:23 AM (rdVOm)

523 Yeah, Bers. "watching things shrink"

Says it all.

Like a wool sweater, washed in hot water & tossed into the dryer on High Heat...

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

yeah we used to have big gatherings. My mom's sister did the thanksgiving thing. She had a fairly large house on a few acres, and that was good for over 30 people minimum, plus a few neighbors. My mother's other sister did easter, so almost the same crowd. My grandmother on my father's side had the huge christmas eve thing. All gone, grandparents gone, all aunts and uncles are gone, mom's entire family is wiped out. The exception is my father and his siblings since they all have the methuselah gene. The cousins are all over the country now, the 2 oldest cousins on my mother's side are gone. Nobody does shit anymore.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:24 AM (snZF9)

524 No “Sweet Dreams” by the Eurythmics?

And I don't know how a Dreams music theme on AoSHQ doesn’t include “Silent Lucidity” by everybody’s favorite band; Queensrÿche.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 03:36 AM (6ydKt)

525 Van Halen-Dreams.

Probably already mentioned. Kick ass Blue Angels music video too!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 03:38 AM (sAmhv)

526 Nobody does shit anymore.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:24 AM (snZF9)

Then do your own shit.

We throw an epic New Years Party and blow stuff up. Nobody leaves hungry. This year is fondue because my arm is in a sling and even DH can't fuck up chopping up cheese and bread.

Make up your own shit and dig it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:51 AM (6Bc88)

527 Yet... are alone. Please... reach out to that loner Sigma, it really would help....
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM (mP0Kj)

You are never alone. He is with you. And next year haul yer ass up here and WE will be with you.

Things change. His love never does.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:54 AM (6Bc88)

528 After kill em all. Metallica S&M is the only Metallica worth listening too.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:55 AM (MGB5H)

Concur. That is what we play when we really start a serious project.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:58 AM (6Bc88)

529 Then do your own shit.

We throw an epic New Years Party and blow stuff up. Nobody leaves hungry. This year is fondue because my arm is in a sling and even DH can't fuck up chopping up cheese and bread.

Make up your own shit and dig it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:51 AM (6Bc8

I do. I have a christmas party in mid december, and then a gathering on christmas day, and then another new years eve.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 04:10 AM (snZF9)

530 nood tech at 04:00 AM

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:25 AM (RuTUS)

Christmas Bells Cafe

Unknown stream at Grand Tetons National Park
By Cynical Publius

Oh was that your tail I was biting? My bad.

The fox and the ~~hound~~ kitten.

Puppy is going to his forever home.

Flying Squirrel What Flies at Midnight.

Un-roast goat.

Rescuing an orphaned kitten.

Tug of war.

Sophisticated cockatoo.

She makes "Cat Lady" seem like an okay thing to be.

From Sooth: A Muppet Family Christmas.

Am I doing it right..🐶🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/jHsZyJkOMY
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 21, 2025

Goodest bellboy..🐕‍🦺🔔😅 pic.twitter.com/PWSQTievC7
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 21, 2025

St. George�s chapel choir sing �Carol of the Bells� at the Windsor Castle for Christmas 2018 pic.twitter.com/AppvcLWY4k
— The Extreme Music Enthusiast (@TheExtremeMusi1) December 14, 2025

Stray dog's first Christmas after being adopted..🐕🐾🎄😊❤️

📹toriawaIker pic.twitter.com/EdD0G4vGFA
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025

Remember this asshole comedian from about 12 years ago?

As you hit the stores for your Christmas shopping this season keep this in mind�

(I haven�t laughed this hard in a long time)pic.twitter.com/Qh87dQAI2e
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 5, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:10 PM

Comments

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1 That little girl really served her dog all right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (9ipOP)

2 Good evening, Hordelings.

Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (Epuwl)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 07:13 PM (cYBz/)

4 Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 07:13 PM (Kt19C)

5 Damn. Its 7 already?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)

6 Boy those IKEA people have some internal dialog going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (9ipOP)

7
Remember this asshole comedian from about 12 years ago?

Yes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (0RrTI)

8 Black is the absence of all light and the combination of all pigments.

Physics if phun.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (qFwJc)

9 Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (5DEFi)

10 Hullo?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (XeU6L)

11 >>>9 Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?

they sure do. They sure do.

IKEA and Costco sure make a fine lunch.

Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (1wjle)

12 Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Oh yeah - they'll serve anybody!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (cYBz/)

13 Bah, humherring!

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

14 Will ribeyes last 5 days in the fridge?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (5DEFi)

15 i've bought frozen Ikea meatballs and brought them home. Plus the gravy. Which is called Skyullfyukker or something.

Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (1wjle)

16 That adopted stray is one lucky boy or girl.

Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (lJ0H4)

17 Hi, Mike Hammer!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (sDNVV)

18 Remember this asshole comedian from about 12 years ago?

---

Who is that, Patrice O'Neal?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (mNhIh)

19 You know who else liked doggo videos?

Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (YSDKn)

20 >>>Will ribeyes last 5 days in the fridge?

I think so. But I'm one of those guys who say that food lasts longer than most think it does. Especially if you're willing to excuse a little funkiness.

Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (1wjle)

21 Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM

Yes they do. It's a fine way to recharge after the successful conclusion to your hunt for the FIXA power drill.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

22 Goodest bellboy..

With his sense of hearing, his ears must be bleeding!

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 07:20 PM (SqxZS)

23 >> Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?

Apostates!

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 07:20 PM (wUu8b)

24 Aged beef is better.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (qFwJc)

25 I've never been inside an Ikea.

I did have a flat tire one time. Changed it on their parking lot. In the rain.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (mNhIh)

26 Cuddling and baby talking your new puppy is a man card waiver.

Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (KDPiq)

27 my mom used to make swedish meatballs every Christmas.

good memories.

Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (1wjle)

28 Will ribeyes last 5 days in the fridge?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM

Assuming your fridge temp is < 40 dF, yes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

29 Freeze the ribeyes if you don't need them for 5 days if you want to be sure.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (sDNVV)

30 >>>I've never been inside an Ikea.

oh you'd love it

Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)

31 Who is that, Patrice O'Neal?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (mNhIh)

I dunno. I got tired of the schtick about a minute in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

32 Never lived in an IKEA town.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (5DEFi)

33 Cuddling and baby talking your new puppy is a man card waiver.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (KDPiq)

But getting cold shoulder dissed by your own daughter on national teevee is not.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (mNhIh)

34 11 >>>9 Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?

they sure do. They sure do.

IKEA and Costco sure make a fine lunch.
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (1wjle)

And you don't have to regret the calories either, because you know you're going to burn them all failing to put the shelves together. Somehow.

Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (YSDKn)

35 Who is that, Patrice O'Neal?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (mNhIh)

I dunno. I got tired of the schtick about a minute in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

Same.

But no... that is most certainly NOT Patrice O'Neal.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (mNhIh)

36 On this Christmas eve eve, I wish all of you morons a kitchen goat. With waggy tail.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (jNFIZ)

37 Will ribeyes last 5 days in the fridge?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (5DEFi)

I err on the side of caution. 3 days in the fridge. If uncooked by then, rewrapped and into the freezer whatever it is goes.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (gKDq2)

38 used to make swedish meatballs every Christmas."

Made from real Swedes?

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (XuXeR)

39 "Will ribeyes last 5 days in the fridge?
Posted by: Boss Moss "

They will actually last months before they get up and crawl out on their own.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (vFG9F)

40 8 Black is the absence of all light and the combination of all pigments.

Physics if phun.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (qFwJc)

On a lit display it can differ:

On LCD/LED, Black is the combination of Red + Green + Blue pixels.

On OLED, Black is the color of the back panel itself and the RGB pixels are turned completely off to get 100% True Black.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (6ydKt)

41 >>>I've never been inside an Ikea.

oh you'd love it
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)

For some reason, this comes across as creepy, ace. Probably because I read it in my head with a seductive voice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (zZu0s)

42 I was driving down I-5 near Del Mar about 30 years ago and a car had a bumper sticker.

"Silly faggots, dick are for chicks."

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (qFwJc)

43
Question for the Chefs here:

Why do I need "beef boullion" and/or Beef Broth to Instant Pot my Rib Roast?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (0RrTI)

44 Technically black is the absence of color. This probably upsets all the right people.

Posted by: One Is The Loneliest Number at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (BLawi)

45 oh you'd love it
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)

If Ikea is a nubile (SWIDT?) 21 year old Eastern European leggy model I would.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (mNhIh)

46 I always trim the spinalis dorsai off a ribeye and cook it separately. It's the finest piece of meat on the cow, and always gets overdone if cooked with the rest of the steak.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)

47 >>>Will ribeyes last 5 days in the fridge?

I think so. But I'm one of those guys who say that food lasts longer than most think it does. Especially if you're willing to excuse a little funkiness.
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (1wjle)

They hang prime cuts in a humidifier for weeks for dry aging. Weird if it couldn't last five days in a fridge.

Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (KDPiq)

48 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

49 Off serial killer sock

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (KDPiq)

50 Soothsayer, to keep it from drying out.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (sDNVV)

51 Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (qFwJc)

52 "Silly faggots, dick are for chicks."
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (qFwJc)

Hah!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

53
to keep it from drying out.
Posted by: Ben Had

What's an alternative?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (0RrTI)

54 Willowed:
The Nissan Nubian was intended to be a straight up competitor for the Volkswagen Cabriolet convertible. Unfortunately the styling didn't catch on, the color choices weren't right and the odd shaped rear bumper was not amenable to the ever popular breast cancer awareness stickers considered mandatory by the chick car crowd. Production ceased after only two years.

Posted by: Car Nerd at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (SzjyL)

55 >> Nazareth reignites the magic of Christmas: lights, parades, markets, concerts, and giant trees… a must-visit holiday destination.

https://tinyurl.com/3efs9dnj

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (wUu8b)

56
I dunno. I got tired of the schtick about a minute in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You lasted longer than I.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (pkeXY)

57
Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them.
Posted by: no one

This would make a good Fortune Cookie fortune.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (0RrTI)

58 What's an alternative?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (0RrTI)

Date younger women?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (mNhIh)

59 Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them."

Clarkson's Farm...

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (XuXeR)

60 These beef bouillon and basil, and worcestershire are for the spuds, carrot, and celery. The meat does need it.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (qFwJc)

61 You can just keep dropping by and scarfing up meatballs?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (5DEFi)

62 Question for the Chefs here:

Why do I need "beef boullion" and/or Beef Broth to Instant Pot my Rib Roast?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (0RrTI)

I use a Crock Pot. I add about a cup of water and a tablespoon of Better Than Bouillon Beef. When done, I strain the juice and have a wonderful au jus. You can ruin it and thicken it however you want. But I just like the strained au jus. Over slices, over an open faced sammich. It's simply liquid beefy goodness.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (gKDq2)

63 "odd shaped rear bumper"

In England they call it the "booty".

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)

64 When are they just gonna translate the name of the mountain range, and it’s associated national park, to “Big Boobs,” as the horny French fur traders intended?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (77rzZ)

65 Soothsayer, the recipe in The Deplorable Gourmet.

Depends on what taste your going for.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (sDNVV)

66 I would name my cow "Dinner".

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (vFG9F)

67 41 >>>I've never been inside an Ikea.

oh you'd love it
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)

Obligatory book reference:

https://tinyurl.com/3s2yp6sz

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (yZSOm)

68 ***She makes "Cat Lady" seem like an okay thing to be.
---

No room for you in the bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (Mis34)

69
Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them.
Posted by: no one

Give it a number and take away its name.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (pkeXY)

70 When are they just gonna translate the name of the mountain range, and it’s associated national park, to “Big Boobs,” as the horny French fur traders intended?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (77rzZ)

I have a suggestion for the Donald...

Melania Mountains

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (mNhIh)

71 Then you make a gravy with in.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (qFwJc)

72 I've got a good name for a pig too.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

73 12 Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Oh yeah - they'll serve anybody!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (cYBz/)

Haha

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (zYpTz)

74 Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (gKDq2)

I just buy the Hormel Beef Roast with Au Jus sauce. 3 1/2 minutes in the microwave. Unbelievably good.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)

75 OH my... Supreme Court agrees that a Low Level Federal Judge is now the Commander in Chief of the US Armed forces, allowing an order from a Judge to stand about deploying National Guard troops.

Post, Constitution. We are no longer a Republic.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (mP0Kj)

76 Remember this asshole comedian from about 12 years ago?

Yes! This bit of his is hilarious.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (SqxZS)

77 Ikea guy is funny.
Good stuff.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (UJWr0)

78 If you don't have some liquid in the Instant Pot, you'll get that burn error.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (+mUZM)

79
The Christmas Tree cluster/nebula:
https://is.gd/RpEsmB

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (w6EFb)

80 Gravy, au jus. Both are great.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (qFwJc)

81 Kavanaugh.
What a waste.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (UJWr0)

82
Meat needs moisture, especially old meat.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)

83 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)

84 44 Technically black is the absence of color. This probably upsets all the right people.

Posted by: One Is The Loneliest Number at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (BLawi)

I'd modify that and say that since color is what we see as a result of the spectrum of light, then black is the absence of light (or 0% reflective color).

When using pigments for painting or print, black is a combination of all colors, but even in that case it comes out more like a very dark brown, so in CMYK printing the K stands for Black (a separate 100% black ink).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (6ydKt)

85 Good thing the thread changed, ASS was droppin' turds in the bottom of the last one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)

86 Meat needs moisture, especially old meat.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)

Hey, I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (mNhIh)

87
Lmao

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:35 PM (3ek7K)

88 82
Meat needs moisture, especially old meat.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)

There's a menopause joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:35 PM (YSDKn)

89 You scratch my dog's belly and he smiles at you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:36 PM (Zz0t1)

90 I can't hear carol of the bells without thinking Ding fries are done, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvvHXjKloNs

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 07:36 PM (snZF9)

91 I use a Crock Pot. I add about a cup of water and a tablespoon of Better Than Bouillon Beef. l...It's simply liquid beefy goodness.
Posted by: RickZ
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L⊙⊙k, at Amazon it's SNAP & EBT eligible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 07:37 PM (Mis34)

92 in there somewhere.
Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:35 PM (YSDKn)

In there somewhere.....

Nah, I'll let someone else have this one.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:37 PM (mNhIh)

93 *Meat needs moisture, especially old meat.*

Sometimes it takes a village.

Posted by: BJ Clinton at December 23, 2025 07:37 PM (SzjyL)

94 89 You scratch my dog's belly and he smiles at you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Me too.

Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:38 PM (YSDKn)

95 I just buy the Hormel Beef Roast with Au Jus sauce. 3 1/2 minutes in the microwave. Unbelievably good.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)

I make about a 2 1/2 pound pot roast in a crock pot. I have an older model (avocado green), not the newer oval shapes which hold larger cuts of meat. I add whatever sides to the crock pot: Small red potatoes (on the bottom), some large diced carrots, whole garlic, or maybe mushrooms (just add less water).

Put in the pot and forget it for 7 hours.

Gives me a few meals.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:38 PM (gKDq2)

96 66 I would name my cow "Dinner".
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (vFG9F)

Many a calf has been named "Hamburger."

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:40 PM (zYpTz)

97 >>>Boy ~~those IKEA people~~ retail "sales associates" have some internal dialog going on.
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fix'd. LOL

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 07:40 PM (rdVOm)

98
I cooked a rump roast in the crockpot a couple of weeks ago.

It was delicious.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (3ek7K)

99 Obligatory book reference:

https://tinyurl.com/3s2yp6sz
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (yZSOm)

My mind also went straight there!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz)

100
Next question:

Does Beef Broth go bad after expiration date? I have some unopened powder, expired 9/23.

And I have some unopened liquid bone broth in a Paper Container (like box wine) expired 7/23.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (0RrTI)

101 Just got back from wokking the dog.

Posted by: Barry Soetero at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (oftw2)

102 I just buy the Hormel Beef Roast with Au Jus sauce. 3 1/2 minutes in the microwave. Unbelievably good.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)

I've been getting those for a year now.
Very easy to make.
Tastes 90% like a homemade roast in the oven.
Feeds two normal people, or one man who likes a large plate.
I'll add sauteed peppers, onions, and mushrooms to it occasionally.

Their beef tips and meatloaf aren't bad, either.
Haven't tried the turkey.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 07:42 PM (6ydKt)

103 Many a calf has been named "Hamburger."
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:40 PM (zYpTz)

Please. The proper name is Scaloppine.

Veal Scaloppine.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:42 PM (gKDq2)

104 Powder should be fine. If air got to it it might taste a bit oxidized or week, but it shouldn't go bad.

The liquid, I probably would not risk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:43 PM (zZu0s)

105 >>>When using pigments for painting or print, black is a combination of all colors, but even in that case it comes out more like a very dark brown, so in CMYK printing the K stands for Black (a separate 100% black ink).
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I postulated to my ex, an art major graduate who did make money as such, that perception of color is different between white people and black people.
Not racist just that we perceive color from what we are.

We see white black and they see black to white.
To me it's obvious from viewing each group's work.

She flipped.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 07:43 PM (Mis34)

106 Most Instant Pots have a crockpot setting.

The powdered stuff should be okay. I wouldn't use the liquid stuff.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 07:44 PM (+mUZM)

107 fourseasons, I use rump roast to make my beef and barley soup. Ii is a very underrated cut of beef.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:44 PM (sDNVV)

108 Next question:

Does Beef Broth go bad after expiration date? I have some unopened powder, expired 9/23.

And I have some unopened liquid bone broth in a Paper Container (like box wine) expired 7/23.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (0RrTI)

The dry stuff, no real problem. But the bone broth? 7/23? Yeah, no. I'd toss it.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:44 PM (gKDq2)

109 Unrelated to anything (or is it?), Lucy Liu defies the stereotype about Asian women.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (cnokD)

110 Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them."

Not if you name them cute names like "Ribeye," "T-Bone" or "Brisket."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (Zz0t1)

111
It sure is Ben. I never cooked one, was afraid it would be tough.

I recommend it.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)

112
Does Beef Broth go bad after expiration date? I have some unopened powder, expired 9/23.

And I have some unopened liquid bone broth in a Paper Container (like box wine) expired 7/23.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (0RrTI)

Donate those to your local food bank. Homeless people don't know what year it is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:46 PM (Zz0t1)

113 Give it a number and take away its name.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (pkeXY)

You owe me royalties ...

Posted by: Johnny Rivers at December 23, 2025 07:46 PM (3sXRv)

114 Don we now our ghey apparel

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 07:47 PM (GQnhI)

115 I just buy the Hormel Beef Roast with Au Jus sauce. 3 1/2 minutes in the microwave. Unbelievably good.

We've secretly replaced his hoity-toity 'Beef Roast Au Jus' with Spam. Let's see if he notices...

Posted by: Hormel at December 23, 2025 07:47 PM (SqxZS)

116 I use a Crock Pot. I add about a cup of water and a tablespoon of Better Than Bouillon Beef. l...It's simply liquid beefy goodness.
Posted by: RickZ
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I think they've changed the BTB recipe......use too much, like I used to, it's DAMN salty now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:48 PM (Zz0t1)

117 Bif, thanks for the explanation of “Smash” at the end of the previous thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:48 PM (77rzZ)

118
Got the lawn mowed this afternoon. That should be it until mowing season resumes in early March.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (tgvbd)

119 Ikea meatballs are made from the mink and fox carcasses on large Swedish fur farms. That's why it's so good. Classy.

Posted by: Ermine Gingold at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (oftw2)

120 I found a place to buy ready to cook pheasants. Life is good.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

121 Plus, you can't count sheep if you name them. It just ends up being some weird animal husbandry Romper Room hybrid, and you'll never get to sleep. Doomed to shamble lifelessly through the night, like Dracula. Or Skip.

Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (YSDKn)

122 I found a place to buy ready to cook pheasants. Life is good.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

SpongeBro is supposed to go pheasant hunting at some point soon. I don't remember if I was invited to that or not.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (Zz0t1)

123
Puppy going to his new home is adorable.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (tgvbd)

124 It sure is Ben. I never cooked one, was afraid it would be tough.

I recommend it.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)

The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.

Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)

125 I found a place to buy ready to cook pheasants. Life is good.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

The pheasants are revolting!

Posted by: Harvey Corman to Mel Brooks at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (cnokD)

126 Powdered bouillon is ok for *years* after purchase.

I never really thought about it, until using the last of some chicken cubes-- remembered that I'd bought them on a Costco trip with Mom-- and she'd been gone for over 15 years when I emptied that container.

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (rdVOm)

127
The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.

Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)

50 Shades of Roast

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (Zz0t1)

128 Got both bone in rib eye roasts at HEB for $57.41 & $59.26.

Anything I cut after six steaks is gratis.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (dAOkg)

129 Hadrian, how is HM doing? I saw you comment on Finn so I know how he is.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (sDNVV)

130 127
The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.

Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)

50 Shades of Roast
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (Zz0t1)

#shibari

Posted by: Johnny Rivers at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (3sXRv)

131 "Do I need tools to build these shelves?"

No, they just magically screw themselves together. In reverse.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (nljXp)

132 I think they've changed the BTB recipe......use too much, like I used to, it's DAMN salty now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:48 PM (Zz0t1)

My friend told me they have a low sodium chicken. I haven't looked yet as I still have both in the fridge. But if they have low sodium, I will buy that.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (gKDq2)

133 Lucy Liu defies the stereotype about Asian women.

In what way? The stereotype I am thinking about is these old gals look a lot younger than they are.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (qFwJc)

134 Don we now our ghey apparel
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 07:47 PM

Fa la laaaa
Fa la laaaaa
O you brute!

Posted by: Lance Pfoofter, 'Go Dog Go' Director at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)

135 I’m a germophobe, so I would never hunt my own meat. Can’t deal with fresh dead animals. Who now’s how many microbes would get on me from those carcasses?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

136 Went to Dillons (Kroger) the other day. They had frozen geese at $7.99 a pound. I saw one for $120! Also saw a Choice Prime Rib that ran $150+. But I also saw a lot of people with absolutely full carts.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 07:54 PM (+mUZM)

137 Doggie trying to hoola-hoop is to funny

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

138
#shibari
Posted by: Johnny Rivers at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (3sXRv)

Woah....hey now....let's not get carried away......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:55 PM (Zz0t1)

139 Don we now our ghey apparel
Posted by: Dr. Varno

Dressing like Cousin Eddy at Clark's house.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:55 PM (dAOkg)

140 Why would I pay $120 for a goose when I can get one in town for twenty bucks?

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

141 That flyer is the largest squirrel I've ever seen.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (a+4eV)

142 Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them.
Posted by: no one

My brother raised some calves on his big pasture. They named the calves Numbers One, Two, Three, Four and Buddy.

Buddy lived to be ten years old and they buried him in a corner of the pasture.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (GjEvj)

143
Hadrian, how is HM doing?

__________

As beautiful as ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (tgvbd)

144 I read somewhere that the meatballs at IKEA are made from the people who can't find their way out of the store.

Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (2L+MU)

145 In what way? The stereotype I am thinking about is these old gals look a lot younger than they are.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (qFwJc)

I've always thought it was the opposite.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (cnokD)

146 My friend told me they have a low sodium chicken. I haven't looked yet as I still have both in the fridge. But if they have low sodium, I will buy that.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (gKDq2)

I will have to remind the wife to look for that next time she shops. My mom cut salt out of a lot of her cooking when I was a yute, so when salt is present, I notice....and if it's overly salted, I'm out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (Zz0t1)

147 The Rooskis have begun evacuating diplomat families from Venezuela.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (0sNs1)

148 Went to Dillons (Kroger) the other day. They had frozen geese at $7.99 a pound. I saw one for $120! Also saw a Choice Prime Rib that ran $150+. But I also saw a lot of people with absolutely full carts.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Kroger is running choice bone in ribeye roasts for $5.99 lb thru Christmas.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:57 PM (dAOkg)

149 In what way? The stereotype I am thinking about is these old gals look a lot younger than they are.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (qFwJc)

I've always thought it was the opposite.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (cnokD)

Either way, she looks spectacular.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:57 PM (cnokD)

150
Final Question:

I will Sear all sides of the Roast first, then put in Instant Pot to pressure cook.

Should I "Sear" it again using "Broil" in the oven afterwards? Not necessary, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)

151 Having lobster for Christmas dinner.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)

152 We raised rabbits as members of 4-H when I was a yute. When dad started slaughtering them, my brother and I were really upset.

"Fine. You raise them. You clean up after them."

Holy SHIT if I'da known how nasty those things were, we'd a had freezers full.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (Zz0t1)

153 Having lobster for Christmas dinner.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)

*seethes with jealousy*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:59 PM (Zz0t1)

154 Why would I pay $120 for a goose when I can get one in town for twenty bucks?
Posted by: fd

Get one off a golf course for free.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:59 PM (dAOkg)

155
Should I "Sear" it again using "Broil" in the oven afterwards? Not necessary, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)

Correct. Searing twice will create a charcoal effect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:59 PM (Zz0t1)

156 The Rooskis have begun evacuating diplomat families from Venezuela.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (0sNs1)

We're always the last to know

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:00 PM (KDPiq)

157 when salt is present, I notice....and if it's overly salted, I'm out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (Zz0t1)

I like a lot of salt, and even I have to be very careful with how much of that BTB I use, or the dish is inedible. Didn't realize they have low sodium--I'll look for that, too.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:00 PM (zYpTz)

158
Correct. Searing twice will create a charcoal effect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yeah, but some people want a "crust" on their prime rib. I don't think I do.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (0RrTI)

159 Ben Had, please provide your address, and the exact time that you plan on having dinner.

I’ll bring booze and a floral centerpiece.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (77rzZ)

160
I like a lot of salt, and even I have to be very careful with how much of that BTB I use, or the dish is inedible. Didn't realize they have low sodium--I'll look for that, too.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:00 PM (zYpTz)

My FiL usually uses so much salt, it's all you taste. I accidentally ate something off his plate once and thought I was going to die.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (Zz0t1)

161 Having lobster for Christmas dinner.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)

Great grandfather McPaco: Nay, ye kin keep yer big red boog! Where's m' haggis?

Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (2L+MU)

162
Yeah, but some people want a "crust" on their prime rib. I don't think I do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (0RrTI)

I've never really been a fan of that kind of searing.

I don't want burned steak. I want to enjoy all of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (Zz0t1)

163 I heard Canadian geese are greasy and not very tasty.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (vFG9F)

164 I will have to remind the wife to look for that next time she shops. My mom cut salt out of a lot of her cooking when I was a yute, so when salt is present, I notice....and if it's overly salted, I'm out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm judicious with salt, myself, for health reasons. I only buy unsalted butter, e.g. I also tell people this regarding soy sauce. To me, the best on the market is Kikkoman. But the one with the best flavor is the Low Sodium one. I was buying that well before my health issues I liked the flavor better so much.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (gKDq2)

165 Yeah, but some people want a "crust" on their prime rib. I don't think I do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (0RrTI)
-----
Yeah ya do. The Maillard reaction is your friend.

Posted by: ballistic at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (5aZAZ)

166 I heard Canadian geese are greasy and not very tasty.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (vFG9F)

Commie birds eating moose shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (Zz0t1)

167 Should I "Sear" it again using "Broil" in the oven afterwards? Not necessary, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)

Ye

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (6ydKt)

168
Ye
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (6ydKt)

Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (Zz0t1)

169
My Plan of Attack
-Sear
-scrape bottom of pot
-add Red Wine
-add Beef Broth powder, expired 9/23
-place Roast on trivet (wire tray)
-Pressure Cook for, I dunno, 8 minutes

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (0RrTI)

170 I've posted before that one of the biggest things I miss about NYC is having the Christmas Eve Feast of Seven Fishes with my Italian friends .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)

171 As I was trying to say before the 'enter' key so rudely interrupted me:

Yeah, I'd think the pan sear would be enough.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)

172 I had to venture to the supermarket today for one last item. Parking lot was almost full, but anarchy had yet to break out inside.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (GjEvj)

173 I've posted before that one of the biggest things I miss about NYC is having the Christmas Eve Feast of Seven Fishes with my Italian friends .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)

I've experienced that once. Damn nice tradition they've got going there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (Zz0t1)

174

"You know I only come here because the food is good and the service is excellent"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (rbvCR)

175 Final Question:

I will Sear all sides of the Roast first, then put in Instant Pot to pressure cook.

Should I "Sear" it again using "Broil" in the oven afterwards? Not necessary, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)

No. You'll just dry it out. Besides, you made the crust already by searing it.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (gKDq2)

176 As I was trying to say before the 'enter' key so rudely interrupted me:

Yeah, I'd think the pan sear would be enough.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)

Oh. Never mind, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (Zz0t1)

177
The Maillard reaction is your friend.
Posted by: ballistic

I'm afraid to ask...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (0RrTI)

178 Both Oriental gals and geese have flat rear ends. And Robin Williams had a chicken behind.

Posted by: Gluteal Thoughts at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (oftw2)

179 That choir... Beautiful.
What's up with the ones not in a white surplice? Are they not virgins or something?

Yes, yes, I'm getting coal in my stocking for that one.

Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2025 08:07 PM (Qpqr0)

180 The Maillard reaction is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars to create melanoidins, the compounds that give browned food its distinctive flavor. Seared steaks, fried dumplings, cookies and other kinds of biscuits, breads, toasted marshmallows, falafel and many other foods undergo this reaction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:07 PM (Zz0t1)

181 Had a friend that fed his family off Canadian Geese and fish that he caught. You need to either partially pressure cook or parboil them, then roast.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 08:07 PM (+mUZM)

182
Last Question, I swears:

What meat temp do I want for a rare Medium-Rare?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (0RrTI)

183 178 Both Oriental gals and geese have flat rear ends. And Robin Williams had a chicken behind.
Posted by: Gluteal Thoughts at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (oftw2)

*gives Gluteal Thoughts the Stink Eye of Death*

Posted by: Brie Larsen at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (yZSOm)

184 What meat temp do I want for a rare Medium-Rare?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (0RrTI)

145, I think.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (Zz0t1)

185 Oops....135. Sorry.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:09 PM (Zz0t1)

186 As of yesterday the russkis were denying the diplo evacuation report. Dunno if that's changed, or they were fibbing to start with.

And something pretty stable like bouillon cubes, properly stored, should be good for a loooooong time. I once actually worked with the guy (there was a guy) at USDA in charge of expiration markings etc. Used the opportunity to grill him about the question of food expiration markings and it went about as expected. Dry/solid chemically stable stuff, properly stored - very long shelf life. Ditto, though shorter, for select canned goods.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2025 08:09 PM (U/Byj)

187 The Maillard reaction is your friend.
Posted by: ballistic
----

I'm afraid to ask...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (0RrTI)

The browning of food, carmelization.

It's why grilled cheeses are, well, grilled cheeses.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (gKDq2)

188 Lot of Texas people I know have a traditional Lasagna for Christmas or Christmas Eve.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (KDPiq)

189 Goose is freaking disgusting. That is all.

Posted by: ballistic at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (5aZAZ)

190 What meat temp do I want for a rare Medium-Rare?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (0RrTI)

Medium-Rare for beef is 130 - 135.

But if you are going to let it rest then stop around 125 or so.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (6ydKt)

191 I've always thought it was the opposite.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (cnokD)

You are think of Arabs.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (qFwJc)

192 Or, lower. I usually do smoker cooked steaks to 130. They are still very red in the middle, but smoking cooks low and slow, so.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (Zz0t1)

193 Do you serve Chinese food here? I have the roast goose, hold the cranberries and dumplings.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (nljXp)

194 Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2025 08:09 PM (U/Byj)

Good to hear regard the Russkie evacuation.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq)

195 I like the goodest boy videos. See ya!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (YlWIZ)

196 Do you serve Chinese food here? I have the roast goose, hold the cranberries and dumplings.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (nljXp)

You been heah foa owa! You go now!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (Zz0t1)

197 Thank you for reminding me. I have a ribeye steak that needs salt and airing out in the fridge. Christmas will be Festive pork roast, or some variation.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (qFwJc)

198 My wife's kid invited us for Christmas dinner, and then some life started happening, so we are bringing the sides.
This means I am cooking, since my wife has a limited repertoire.
Granted, that is not a problem for her daughter, but not everyone wants rice-cake soup for Christmas. We will have that for New Year's

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (rbvCR)

199 Medium Rare pull your roast at 127 internal and loosely tent it with foil. Carryover cooking will bring it to 133 or so which is perfect.

After you create a sear please don't destroy it with high-moisture cooking after. Thanks

Posted by: ballistic at December 23, 2025 08:13 PM (5aZAZ)

200 Good Christmas Bell Cafe, ace.

Keep up the holiday joy! XO

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15 i've bought frozen Ikea meatballs and brought them home. Plus the gravy. Which is called Skyullfyukker or something.
Posted by: ace

🤣

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 23, 2025 08:14 PM (NFX2v)

201 I'm afraid to ask...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (0RrTI)

Maillard reaction is when your protein starts to brown under heat in a mildly alkali situation. Meats, pies, bread, pretzels are all examples of this
This is not the same as caramelization, which is where heat breaks down sugars.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:16 PM (rbvCR)

202 Oops....135. Sorry.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Just club the cow. Run a blow dryer over it for a couple mins. Cut to serve.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

203 9 Do they really serve meatballs at IKEA?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (5DEFi)

IKEA would qualify as the 6th largest restaurant chain in the world, just from the restaurants.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (0CU3H)

204
After you create a sear please don't destroy it with high-moisture cooking after.
Posted by: ballistic

I'll try.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (0RrTI)

205 189 Goose is freaking disgusting. That is all. - ballistic

I've had goose once in my life, served with Champagne sauce, prepared in a French restaurant. It tasted like chicken soaked in kerosene.

Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (2L+MU)

206 Flash freeze the steaks

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:18 PM (tcsrY)

207 166 I heard Canadian geese are greasy and not very tasty.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (vFG9F)

Commie birds eating moose shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (Zz0t1)

That's what I heard as well. And at least in CT, they're illegal to kill.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 08:18 PM (0CU3H)

208
Regardless of what this Mallard guy thinks, I have a wacky theory that whenever you "brown" meat or anything, you destroy nutrients.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:19 PM (0RrTI)

209 We're going to have lamb for Christmas, - is that borderline blasphemous?

I got a 10lbs bone-in smoked honey ham as a backup.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:19 PM (nljXp)

210 124 It sure is Ben. I never cooked one, was afraid it would be tough.

I recommend it.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)

The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.

Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)

Bless you.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 08:19 PM (0CU3H)

211 >>I had to venture to the supermarket today for one last item. Parking lot was almost full, but anarchy had yet to break out inside.

We have a small grocery store chain in RI, Dave's. Best grocery stores I've ever been in, every department is stellar. They even have a seafood section that rivals local seafood shops in the area and we have a ton of those.

Friends came back from the Keys unexpectedly and we are getting together for Christmas Eve dinner. I had to go grab some scallops, shrimp and stuffies and my local Dave's was insane. People are spending money this Christmas.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:20 PM (viF8m)

212 I remember an episode of Reno 911 where Terrrry was the perfect Bad Employee. Dangle tried to get him to try to sell something with hilarious results.

The reason for his name was because they found graffiti on the police station signed TERRY but he said that couldn’t be him because he spelled his name t e r r r r y..

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:21 PM (FvUgT)

213 I always wondered about lambs and sheep.

Sheep are more valuable for the wool than the meet.

I read Anne Emmerich's visions of the Last Supper. Even Jesus slit the throat but did not enjoy it. They kill lambs and roast them and eat them.

It's okay. Get over it.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:23 PM (qFwJc)

214 I've had goose once in my life, served with Champagne sauce, prepared in a French restaurant. It tasted like chicken soaked in kerosene.
Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (2L+MU

Goose used to be the standard Christmas feast in England - the reason even they have switched to Turkey is that turkey tastes a hell of lot better.
Ducks are about the only water birds that don’t taste like they’ve been marinated in axle grease.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:24 PM (FvUgT)

215 I have been to Dave's. My son lives in Warwick. Love the store. Not cheap.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:25 PM (qFwJc)

216
For Us, Christmas is Christmas Eve Noon to Christmas Day Noon, with Christmas Eve evening being the most important part.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:25 PM (0RrTI)

217 Maillard your Mallard.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 08:25 PM (pkeXY)

218 >Will ribeyes last 5 days in the fridge?

Better safe than sorry. Eat them now, buy more in 4 days.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 08:26 PM (Q+gd/)

219 I used to think it was mean to cook lambs rather than grown sheep. Then I tasted mutton, and after that lamb, and I said Oh, I get it now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:27 PM (FvUgT)

220
I read Anne Emmerich's visions of the Last Supper. Even Jesus slit the throat but did not enjoy it. They kill lambs and roast them and eat them.

Posted by: no one

Is this the second time today you mentioned this lady? Is she someone famous, or something?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:27 PM (0RrTI)

221 5 day? Eh. nothing.

Just keep it refrigerated. My old AP US History retired Col. of Marines told us. "aged beef is more tender."

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:28 PM (qFwJc)

222 Just club the cow. Run a blow dryer over it for a couple mins. Cut to serve.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

I'm fine with that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:29 PM (Zz0t1)

223 I think it is the only time I mentioned it today. Maybe someone else mentioned it. I have not been online since the morning.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (qFwJc)

224
It's snowing!

Everything is White.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (0RrTI)

225 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons. Merry impending Christmas!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (npFr7)

226 170 I've posted before that one of the biggest things I miss about NYC is having the Christmas Eve Feast of Seven Fishes with my Italian friends .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)

I'm really glad I'm not Catholic, because none of those "fishes" mentioned in Sunday's food thread sounded appetizing to me, at all. My seven fishes would be cod, perch, halibut, more cod, perch and halibut, deep fried with chips, and you could probably sneak in some tuna or shrimp. All those things with shells and tentacles, nope.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (zYpTz)

227 >>I have been to Dave's. My son lives in Warwick. Love the store. Not cheap.

Right around the corner. Well, Rhode Island so ..

I've found the staples to be pretty much on par with other local stores but yea, the produce, meats, seafood and prepared are more expensive. But also better quality. At least in my opinion.

I don't even like shopping but that store is pretty cool.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (viF8m)

228
Hey AOP!

When are ya heading south?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (3ek7K)

229 Beef is aged under very specific conditions and it ain't in plastic wrapped in a styrofoam tray.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (sDNVV)

230
I think it is the only time I mentioned it today. Maybe someone else mentioned it. I have not been online since the morning.
Posted by: no one

You're right.

It was this earlier comment today from Not You that I was thinking of:

lol, the Democrat black scholar had a pink gun...

how embarrassing
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Easy there, Anne Barnhardt had the first pink AR custom built that she may invite Muslims to come and take it, which she did.

Posted by: Braenyard

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (0RrTI)

231 Beef is aged under very specific conditions and it ain't in plastic wrapped in a styrofoam tray.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (sDNVV)

But, that's how you get it from the store. That's how it comes.

Posted by: Millennial Douchebag at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (Zz0t1)

232 IKEA and Costco sure make a fine lunch.
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (1wjle)
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Pro Tip: don't eat lunch at IKEA or Costco!

They put melamine in those meatballs!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (9ipOP)

233 Bezos must need some money he sure is pushing Prime.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (Mis34)

234 Bezos must need some money he sure is pushing Prime.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (Mis34)

He's pissed Musk got his Tesla pay reinstated and is way wealthier.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:33 PM (Zz0t1)

235 Roasted wild goose is an acquired delicacy. You must allow for the fat to drain. Also the #2 bird shot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:34 PM (nljXp)

236 Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (zYpTz)

There is no set type of seafood or number these days. My friend would do lobster , fried calamari, shrimp, cod, mussels/clams , salmon and halibut.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:35 PM (KDPiq)

237 People are spending money this Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:20 PM (viF8m)
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Did you tell them about the Affordability Crisis (tm)?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:35 PM (9ipOP)

238 Yay. Last of my Christmas shopping completed today. Got a hubby and wifey a carton of smokes (they smoke the same brand), a fellow geriatric a fifth of Jim Beam, and gave the maintenance guy a twenty. Got by cheap. Also, OT, maybe our President will announce Operation Delaware River II Christmas night. No row boats this time, just the Jerry Ford battle group and the settling of all family business with the Caracas bus driver.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 08:36 PM (gm9Sb)

239 >>He's pissed Musk got his Tesla pay reinstated and is way wealthier.

I saw the other day Musk's net worth hit $700 billion. That's hard to even imagine.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)

240 I have cooked goose on a rotisserie and it came out moist and non greasy

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (sDNVV)

241 She is famous among Catholics. She was a mystic. Her stories about the Passion are intense. She also had stories about Jesus's descent into Hell, etc, which I understand Mel Gibson will use in his next film.

The book online is "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ." I think it costs 99c.

btw, she contradicts Steven Spielberg. In the third Indiana Jones film, the chalice was a simple thing.

No. According to her vision, it was a grand old thing preserved since Melchisedech. Great story. Very painful you know. Must wait until Lent to read it again.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:38 PM (qFwJc)

242 I saw the other day Musk's net worth hit $700 billion. That's hard to even imagine.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)

More than double the next closest.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:38 PM (KDPiq)

243 All those things with shells and tentacles, nope.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Seconded.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:39 PM (Mis34)

244
We're watching Celtic Women Christmas Concert ,the one from two years ago.

Their Christmas productions are stellar.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:40 PM (3ek7K)

245 Good Christmas Eve Eve, dear Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)

246 Good Christmas Eve Eve, dear Horde!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (Zz0t1)

247
I saw the other day Musk's net worth hit $700 billion. That's hard to even imagine.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)

He's destined to be the world's first trillionaire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:42 PM (Zz0t1)

248 More than that, Musk actually makes stuff. Cars and Rockets. Not just moving money around or selling off bits of companies.

Creation rather than destruction or parasitic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

249 All those things with shells and tentacles, nope.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Seconded.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:39 PM (Mis34)

Then you'll love the eel.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (gKDq2)

250 Ladyl, there you are, Sunshine

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (sDNVV)

251 All those things with shells and tentacles, nope.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Seconded.
Posted by: Braenyard

Haters.

Posted by: Cthulhu at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (GjEvj)

252 Celtic women.

Oh to be young again.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (qFwJc)

253 Hey AOP!

When are ya heading south?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (3ek7K)

Planned date of departure is the 26th, Friday.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (npFr7)

254
AOP,

Wishing safe travels for you.

Merry Christmas to my favorite Mr. Fix-it!

Love reading your comments.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:45 PM (3ek7K)

255 I heard that Italians have the Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve. That sounds like it would be fun to try sometime.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:46 PM (FvUgT)

256 250 Ladyl, there you are, Sunshine
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (sDNVV)

And there YOU are, dear Ben Had. Alas--much too far away...

Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:46 PM (+4oV5)

257 245 Good Christmas Eve Eve, dear Horde!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)

Back atcha, Ladyl!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (zYpTz)

258 241 She is famous among Catholics.

Barnhardt?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (Mis34)

259 >>Planned date of departure is the 26th, Friday.

What's your opinion of the secession movement in Alberta? Any chance it goes anywhere?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)

260 FART Tubes our 50% off for the Holliday. This yeer they be has a picture of a Black Santa Claws too honer are Bkack Presdent. Gets them befoor they be sells out.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 23, 2025 08:48 PM (fUSwr)

261

no one,

Gorgeous women and voices that are a gift from God.

Merry Christmas

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:48 PM (3ek7K)

262 This piece of shit is a US congressman…

Goldman, who was first elected in 2022, has long been a staunch opponent of Trump and his immigration policies in Congress. However, when Trump’s mass deportation agenda literally showed up outside his office, his involvement escalated, with his office becoming the headquarters for a legal operation that has secured the release of nine ICE detainees.

“We have our Washington D.C. angle to it, with the legislation and the letters and public messaging to make Americans aware of what is actually going on,” Goldman said during an extensive interview with TPM earlier this month. “But we also are sitting across the street from families who are being torn apart, and if there’s a way for us to help them, I’ve told my staff, do anything possible.”

Goldman and his staffers began making regular visits to Manhattan’s immigration courts. While there, they got to know the network of court watchers and accompaniers who have been supporting migrants and trying to help them keep their cases alive.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 08:49 PM (UJWr0)

263 So much love to all the wonderful people who adopt and/or love these lovely critters. ❣❣🐶🐰🐱🦅

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 08:50 PM (dIJjD)

264 All those things with shells and tentacles, nope.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

I like bouillabaisse, not so much the TurKraken

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:50 PM (rbvCR)

265 More of Dan Goldman….

There’s a lot that has happened this year that makes me incredibly angry and upset for our democracy. Nothing has hit me emotionally like this immigration dragnet,” Goldman explained. “My grandmother escaped antisemitism in Russia and came through Ellis Island. And, at that time … there was no need for asylum. People were welcomed here, and they came here to seek refuge, and to seek opportunity.”

“That’s what this country is all about,” he continued. “And now to see this administration demonize immigrants just for being different, or other, or not born in America, or frankly, not white, is very difficult for me just to emotionally handle. There’s a lot of crazy stuff, but nothing has kept me up at night like this.”

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (UJWr0)

266 What's your opinion of the secession movement in Alberta? Any chance it goes anywhere?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)

I think we may be in the early stages of a preference cascade. Went to a town hall meeting on the topic a couple of weeks ago, and the hall, not a large one, and in a tiny town, was packed. Presenter was kind of flabbergasted. He asked, "how many of you are at a meeting like this for the first time ever?" Half the folks in the room, myself included, raised their hands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)

267 "When does it end, Diane?" 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (XSP3T)

268 Then you'll love the eel.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (gKDq2)

Is it green, and nude?

Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (npFr7)

269 I think we may be in the early stages of a preference cascade. Went to a town hall meeting on the topic a couple of weeks ago, and the hall, not a large one, and in a tiny town, was packed. Presenter was kind of flabbergasted. He asked, "how many of you are at a meeting like this for the first time ever?" Half the folks in the room, myself included, raised their hands.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)

What are the odds of telling Ottawa to EABOD?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (Zz0t1)

270 Is it green, and nude?
Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (npFr7)

For you, Sweet Cheeks, we'll make the eel green and nude.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:55 PM (gKDq2)

271 Seafood you miss. Mom would buy frozen packages of cod, about 8"x3"x2". Once thawed, there was a large amount of small filets and she would do a simple egg wash, flour breading and fry. I've looked for fish packed that way and can't find it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 08:55 PM (gm9Sb)

272 AOP maybe the Parti Quebecois can come out west and show you how it's done.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:56 PM (9ipOP)

273 >>I think we may be in the early stages of a preference cascade.

You know the country better than me but to me Canada seems at least as divided as the US and it seems more obvious because of the smaller population. And then there is Quebec.

It's going to be interesting watching how this plays out.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:56 PM (viF8m)

274 What are the odds of telling Ottawa to EABOD?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (Zz0t1)

There will probably be a secession referendum next year. Should be very easy to get enough signatures on the petition to force a plebiscite on the question.

Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:57 PM (npFr7)

275 257 245 Good Christmas Eve Eve, dear Horde!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)

Back atcha, Ladyl!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (zYpTz)

It was so good to see you in Texas!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:58 PM (+4oV5)

276 ***265 More of Dan Goldman….

There’s a lot that has happened this year that makes me incredibly angry and upset for our democracy. Nothing has hit me emotionally like this immigration dragnet,” Goldman explained. “My grandmother escaped antisemitism in Russia and came through Ellis Island. And, at that time … there was no need for asylum. People were welcomed here,
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off sides but smart mouth immediately called to mind the shipload of Jews that FDR turned away.

,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:58 PM (Mis34)

277 >>>FART Tubes our 50% off for the Holliday.

>Get some glasspacks. This way you can tune your exhaust.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:59 PM (nljXp)

278 AOP maybe the Parti Quebecois can come out west and show you how it's done.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:56 PM (9ipOP)

They are likely going to do yet another separation referendum next year, too. If Quebec splits the sheets, Alberta secession might become unnecessary, because the political center of gravity would take a big lurch to west.

Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:59 PM (npFr7)

279 She is famous among Catholics.

Barnhardt?

By about a 150 years.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:00 PM (qFwJc)

280 Off, donkey-chompers sock!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 09:00 PM (npFr7)

281 Supreme Court Hands Trump White House Defeat on National Guard Deployments to Chicago

FREE SHIT FOR CHRISTMAS .......

EVERYTHING IS FREE FOR THE TAKING BECAUSE NO NATIONAL GUARD TO PROTECT BUSINESSES IN CHICAGO AND THE POLICE ARE PUSSIES ...........

THANK YOU SANTA JB Pritzker !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 09:01 PM (J9q9v)

282 245 Good Christmas Eve Eve, dear Horde!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)

Merry Christmas Eve Eve Ladyl ...

Posted by: browndog looking for a snack at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (3sXRv)

283 It was so good to see you in Texas!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:58 PM (+4oV5)

Yes! Hugs!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (zYpTz)

284 LOL. My AP US History teacher, retired USMC Col. predicted that Alberta and the other western provinces would join the US . The prediction was in 1971.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (qFwJc)

285 Wow! 50% off FART Tubes is too good to pass up. BRB, placing a big order. I know several children of coler who could use one!

Posted by: Happy Harry at December 23, 2025 09:03 PM (oftw2)

286 How juvenile am I tonight?

Go to your English to French translator and have it say "A seal pushed me."

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:03 PM (2WIwB)

287 Evenin' Horde and Merry Christmas. I've got a 5 am flight tomorrow. Heading to TX for Christmas.

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)

288
Merry Christmas Eve Eve Ladyl ...
Posted by: browndog looking for a snack at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (3sXRv)

Dearest Browndog! Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (+4oV5)

289 287 Evenin' Horde and Merry Christmas. I've got a 5 am flight tomorrow. Heading to TX for Christmas.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)

SID--have a great time! Will you get to see Ben Had?

Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 09:10 PM (+4oV5)

290 How far gone is the UK? They are banning boiling lobsters and crab because it's cruel. Importing 3rd world trash and letting them rape young girls is no biggie but boiling a lobster is a step too far.

So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

291 287 Evenin' Horde and Merry Christmas. I've got a 5 am flight tomorrow. Heading to TX for Christmas.
Posted by: screaming in digital

Have a great flight. I'd rather be dead than be on a 5AM flight. Sounds impossible to me.

Posted by: Afternoon Or Not Going at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (oftw2)

292
287 Evenin' Horde and Merry Christmas. I've got a 5 am flight tomorrow. Heading to TX for Christmas.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)

Weather’s nice, come on down!
If I could post pictures here, I’d post one of the $1.99 gas I got this morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (FvUgT)

293 Good Christmas Eve Eve, dear Horde!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)

And to you too lady!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 09:12 PM (snZF9)

294 287 Evenin' Horde and Merry Christmas. I've got a 5 am flight tomorrow. Heading to TX for Christmas.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)

Oh SiD, here's hoping that the day goes as planned ... no delays, no hassles

Posted by: browndog looking for a snack at December 23, 2025 09:12 PM (3sXRv)

295 SID--have a great time! Will you get to see Ben Had?
Posted by: Ladyl
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Sadly, not this time. I'll be in San Antonio.

Big hugs to you and Merry Christmas!!

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:12 PM (UONii)

296 Have a great flight. I'd rather be dead than be on a 5AM flight. Sounds impossible to me.
Posted by: Afternoon Or Not Going
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Yeah what dumbass booked this flight??? Oh yeah that was me... well at least it was cheaper...

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (UONii)

297 286 How juvenile am I tonight?

Go to your English to French translator and have it say "A seal pushed me."
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:03 PM (2WIwB)

I had to try it.

You’re pathetic!!! ROFL!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (FvUgT)

298 Seafood you miss. Mom would buy frozen packages of cod, about 8"x3"x2". Once thawed, there was a large amount of small filets and she would do a simple egg wash, flour breading and fry. I've looked for fish packed that way and can't find it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door

That sounds like one of the bricks that most frozen fish fillets came packed. Just a cardboard cover. I missed the
A lot less waste than individual plastic sealed fillets, takes up a lot less space in the freezer.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (/lPRQ)

299 Maybe there is something wrong with me but ikea guy is double plus unfunny.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (G+z4C)

300 How far gone is the UK? They are banning boiling lobsters and crab because it's cruel. Importing 3rd world trash and letting them rape young girls is no biggie but boiling a lobster is a step too far.

So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (snZF9)

301 Weather’s nice, come on down!
If I could post pictures here, I’d post one of the $1.99 gas I got this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I packed a summer dress to wear for Christmas dinner!

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:15 PM (UONii)

302 >>>Puppy is going to his forever home.

Pet cemetery? Hmm, no. I suppose you wouldn't have posted one of those.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 23, 2025 09:16 PM (syz1S)

303 I keep thinking smuggling firearms into England could be profitable and moral.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:18 PM (qFwJc)

304
So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.
Posted by: JackStraw

So much for the special relationship.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 09:18 PM (pkeXY)

305 The peeple if Brattleboro wants too wish Presdent Obona a Marry Christmas. We loves yew and miss d so you.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 23, 2025 09:19 PM (fUSwr)

306 Oh SiD, here's hoping that the day goes as planned ... no delays, no hassles
Posted by: browndog
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Thank you - I hope so too. Usually flying out of GSP is not too bad.

Gotta go try to sleep for a bit if I can. Good night and big hugs to all y'all.

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:19 PM (UONii)

307 When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (snZF9)

You're going to have to fight your way through the conquering islamic horde. They'll steal the place blind first in any case. Or destroy that which isn't halal. Like art. And statues. They really hate statues. They could just as easily be on a college campus and wouldn't miss a beat.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 09:19 PM (gKDq2)

308 So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.
Posted by: JackStraw

When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.
Posted by: Berserker

You going all Spinal Tap, and touring with the real Stonehenge?

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 09:20 PM (nhCoE)

309 Cigar of the Night

Bahia Blue.
A corojo wrapped robusto (5 x 50).
Fairly mild. Clean taste. Well made and inexpensive on sale or not.
One to light up when you are going to be doing some yard work or some mechanics - stays lit and clean burn, not a high maintenance cigar.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:20 PM (/lPRQ)

310 Evenin' Horde and Merry Christmas. I've got a 5 am flight tomorrow. Heading to TX for Christmas.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)

Might as well start drinking now. Let's face it, you're not getting any sleep tonight.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:21 PM (2WIwB)

311 >>So much for the special relationship.

You should see the terror we inflict on a traditional New England lobster bake.

Can you hear them, Clarice? The spring clams. The screaming of the clams.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:21 PM (viF8m)

312 Cigar of the Night

Bahia Blue.
A corojo wrapped robusto (5 x 50).
Fairly mild. Clean taste. Well made and inexpensive on sale or not.
One to light up when you are going to be doing some yard work or some mechanics - stays lit and clean burn, not a high maintenance cigar.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:20 PM (/lPRQ)

*adds to purchase list*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:23 PM (2WIwB)

313
I keep thinking smuggling firearms into England could be profitable and moral.
Posted by: no one

.22LR, with printed zip gun construction directions.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 09:28 PM (QVmho)

314 305 The peeple if Brattleboro wants too wish Presdent Obona a Marry Christmas. We loves yew and miss d so you.
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt

This has to be a sock. Nobody is clueless...

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 09:30 PM (ff2r3)

315 The West generally will not defend itself. There's a lot of ruin in a culture but we've used a lot up.

Posted by: blaster at December 23, 2025 09:31 PM (v0nU1)

316 So the Epstein files that were released today are redacted by setting the background color to black. The text is not actually missing and was easily recovered. People are debating if that's a dumb error or if Trump/Kash/whoever wanted to leak the information.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 09:32 PM (aUxYo)

317 There will probably be a secession referendum next year. Should be very easy to get enough signatures on the petition to force a plebiscite on the question.
Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:57 PM (npFr7)

My two cents, based on the government's reaction to the trucker strike during the Covidiocy, is that you can expect the RCMP to come in and start busting heads and throwing ringleaders in jail to try and stop the election.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:33 PM (GjEvj)

318 Ha

>>> Disgraced Former Prince Andrew Stripped of His Gun License, Can Only Use Firearms Under Supervision

Maybe only 'asians' can have firearms in New Algeria now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:34 PM (/lPRQ)

319 This has to be a sock. Nobody is clueless...
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 09:30 PM (ff2r3)
====

Actually, you're right.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 23, 2025 09:36 PM (A0sqA)

320 BERSERKER!!!

Merry Christmas. I miss you already!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 09:38 PM (+4oV5)

321 Itinerant, thanks for the cigar info. Have never burned a Bahia. I know Weasel is or at least was a consumer of that brand.

Not long ago finished a Rocky Patel Number Six on the back porch. Always good. Though I strongly prefer the corona vitola, having had 3 of the 6 sizes they roll in this line. More of the tobacco sweetness.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2025 09:39 PM (U/Byj)

322 303
'I keep thinking smuggling firearms into England could be profitable and moral.'

I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. They aren't well defended by land or sea. I wonder how many would get the job done.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v)

323 313
'.22LR, with printed zip gun construction directions.'

I understand the Sten gun was easy to produce.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:43 PM (fd80v)

324 >>>How far gone is the UK? They are banning boiling lobsters and crab because it's cruel. Importing 3rd world trash and letting them rape young girls is no biggie but boiling a lobster is a step too far.

So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

>I'm with Big Mike on this one. If I'm hungry enough I will sink my teeth into a live, raw lobster and savor its flesh as it dies in my clutches.

Generation Lame-oh!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 09:44 PM (nljXp)

325 Well Horde it’s off to the specialist vet clinic in the morning. We leave at 4am to make a 9am appointment in Bozeman. We’re hoping after a CT scan they can tell us what’s wrong with the Lily beagle. We really don’t want to put her down if there’s an answer to why her back legs have given out. The problem happened overnight. Going to spend Christmas Eve in a hotel in a leftist college town.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 09:45 PM (2NHgQ)

326 It's hilarious. Only Trump had supermodel pussy on the side to not be tempted by Epstein,

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:46 PM (qFwJc)

327 I had something really important about which I wanted to comment. Something to do with something somebody commented earlier today.

I wonder what it was.

It'll come to me, I'm sure.

In the middle of the night.
🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - why did I walk into this room? at December 23, 2025 09:46 PM (lNGqL)

328 >>> 51 Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (qFwJc)

>>> 110
==
Not if you name them cute names like "Ribeye," "T-Bone" or "Brisket."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (Zz0t1)

Sponge Johnson is right!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 23, 2025 09:48 PM (ULPxl)

329 They need picture illustrations of what to do and not.
Such as no looking down the barrel to see what's innit.
Also on operation.

Number needed - one for every male and female adult in every working class neighborhood.

Little tin single shots would do just fine with proper usage instructions.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:49 PM (Mis34)

330 I understand the Sten gun was easy to produce.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Plans are readily available...

Every unmachined piece of a stem is an 80%. For example - this piece of pipe? It's an 80% barrel.

If one were to produce a jig(s) for these 80% parts it would greatly facilitate making quality stens.

As Stalin said - quantity is a quality in itself.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)

331 >>Well Horde it’s off to the specialist vet clinic in the morning.

Best wishes for a positive outcome. No matter what, you are a great person for making the effort. Some truly wonderful people hang out here.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:50 PM (viF8m)

332 327 I had something really important about which I wanted to comment. Something to do with something somebody commented earlier today.”

Oh, I know what it was! It was that thing, remember? The thing?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:51 PM (FvUgT)

333 I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. They aren't well defended by land or sea. I wonder how many would get the job done.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v)

It takes more Armalites than you would think it would.

Posted by: The IRA at December 23, 2025 09:51 PM (GjEvj)

334 328 My cute cousin raised a calf as part of a 4H project and named it Wendy. We had a lot of Wendy's hamburgers at my uncle's place.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 09:51 PM (gm9Sb)

335 Thanks Jack. She’s a sweety and hubby is having a really difficult time with what’s happening to her. This is the same man that always referred to her as my dog. Sure, sure you old softy.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 09:52 PM (2NHgQ)

336 Number needed - one for every male and female adult in every working class neighborhood.

Little tin single shots would do just fine with proper usage instructions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:49 PM

The WWII Liberator single shot .45 ACP cost $3 each in 1944 dollars.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:53 PM (GjEvj)

337 What happened to the Sliver Apocalypse that was going to happen today?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:55 PM (GjEvj)

338 It's hilarious. Only Trump had supermodel pussy on the side to not be tempted by Epstein,
Posted by: no one

Apparently Trump was a lady's man and a player at the best FNYC clubs - the places where the doorman only lets in the hottest babes.
That's why he's bagged three models.... Or they bagged him.

Epstein catered to rich trolls in business and government who couldn't even score grade 'a' escorts.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:56 PM (/lPRQ)

339 Poor Lily beagle

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 09:56 PM (A0sqA)

340 As usual, I don't fit in here...see y'all upstairs...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 09:57 PM (dIJjD)

341 Well, On Christmas Eve's Eve, I pray the Good Lord bless you. I went to adoration today and read some of St. Faustina's diary.

Jesus just wants to ask for His mercy. He wants to give it to you.

You just have to ask.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:58 PM (qFwJc)

342 The thing with cigars is there are steap price increase for marginal incremental gains in quality. Some real dogs on the bottom rung, but some decent reliable ones to.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:58 PM (/lPRQ)

343 Oh, I know what it was! It was that thing, remember? The thing?
Posted by: Tom Servo

That's right! How could I have forgotten?!

Posted by: mindful webworker - why did I walk into this room? at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (lNGqL)

344 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump to lower GDP from 4.3 to -0.5 to help the Democrats in the Midterms....

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (J9q9v)

345 "Flying Squirrel What Flies at Midnight."

So he says to me, are you a bad squirrel?
And I said, yeah, I'm bad baby.
He said, show me how bad you are. Fly squirrel, fly.
And I say, Yeah baby, yeah.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (EOjZq)

346 So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.

Dibs on the Elgin marbles.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:00 PM (Riz8t)

347 It's 7:03 p.m. Do you know where your ONT is?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (+HNx/)

348 The British Empire Suspends Trial By Jury. The song is being sung.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)

349
When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.

Dibs on the Elgin marbles.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Lotus 7

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (XeU6L)

350 What happened to the Sliver Apocalypse that was going to happen today?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:55 PM (GjEvj)

It happened. Spot went over $70 and that means JPMorgan is now in auto-sell mode for the futures.
It might go to $100 by Jan 1, and then there are predictions of $200/OZT by next December.

Buy copper.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (rbvCR)

351 Stelen fron another page

Are more people carrying "crazy-genes" then they did in the past?

The short answer is "yes".

As recently as 1900 in developed countries like Ireland, England and Germany, if your mother was crazy you were probably not going to live to see your first birthday ... In total, crazy-genes had a high probability of "dead-ending". In those days the pool of crazy people resulted from random meetings of recessive genes or in new mutations.

Flash-forward to the permissive, Welfare-State.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (/lPRQ)

352 It's 10:03 in civilization.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (5DEFi)

353 344 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump to lower GDP from 4.3 to -0.5 to help the Democrats in the Midterms....
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (J9q9v)

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A strong economy is election interference, amirite?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (+HNx/)

354 348 The British Empire Suspends Trial By Jury. The song is being sung.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)

There is no Trial by Jury in the Koran.

What a Ko Ink E Dink!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:04 PM (mP0Kj)

355 348 The British Empire Suspends Trial By Jury. The song is being sung.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)

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Star chambers are so beautiful with all the stars and shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (+HNx/)

356 353 344 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump to lower GDP from 4.3 to -0.5 to help the Democrats in the Midterms....
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (J9q9v)

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A strong economy is election interference, amirite?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (+HNx/)

But... but... I was told the sky was falling along with the economy because unemployment went up a little bit... mainly due to Gov Employees no longer working.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (mP0Kj)

357 There is no Trial by Jury in the Koran.
Posted by: Romeo13

Trial by the Jewry? Are you f--king nuts????

Posted by: Mohammed M. Muhammad at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (nhCoE)

358 355 348 The British Empire Suspends Trial By Jury. The song is being sung.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)

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Star chambers are so beautiful with all the stars and shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (+HNx/)

So... to find a Judge for a Star Chamber...

Do you do a Star Search?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (mP0Kj)

359 Nood.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (GjEvj)

360 AOP, if Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming can agree on free passage, I can think of some State legislatures I'd not mind you burning again

Posted by: WA, OR, CA, and CO at December 23, 2025 10:08 PM (sDWtc)

361

https://is.gd/SnbKFA

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:08 PM (5DEFi)

362 75 OH my... Supreme Court agrees that a Low Level Federal Judge is now the Commander in Chief of the US Armed forces, allowing an order from a Judge to stand about deploying National Guard troops.

Post, Constitution. We are no longer a Republic.
Posted by: Romeo13

hold on eyeore: https://tinyurl.com/y3xdn5un

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (y7zkd)

363 Kroger is running choice bone in ribeye roasts for $5.99 lb thru Christmas.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:57 PM (dAOkg)

Not in my AO, $9.99 sadz

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 24, 2025 02:35 AM (y7zkd)

364 Last work day of the week

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 03:56 AM (Ia/+0)

Epstein Files Bombshell! Trump Was an Acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein During the Period We Already Knew They Were Acquaintances and Trump Once Flew on an Epstein Plane With a 20-Year-Old Adult Woman On Board

An adult woman? Wow.

You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.

I've also been on planes with adult women. https://t.co/QgValBc8kd
— JWF (@JammieWF) December 23, 2025

Note their is no allegation that Trump had sex with the adult woman, hit on the adult woman, received a massage from the adult woman, or even spoke to the adult woman.

The big disclosure being pushed is that there was a plane, and Trump was on it, and also, as if that's not enough, there was a 20-year-old adult woman aboard too!

Check, and Mate, Mr. Orange Hitler.

Susan Ferrechio:

Justice Department officials said Tuesday the latest publicized Epstein files contain "false" accusations against President Trump.
The department released 30,000 additional documents related to its investigation and prosecution of sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The material includes claims that Mr. Trump was involved in the scheme and raped a young woman who was allegedly later found murdered.
Democrats have seized on the unverified accusation as evidence of Mr. Trump's involvement and a motivation for the department's resistance to making all of the files public.
But Justice Department officials said the claims against the president were politically motivated and were lodged against him just before the 2020 presidential election.
"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," Justice Department officials said.
SEE ALSO: 30,000 more Epstein files released, a few with Trump's name
The files include a claim by an unnamed limo driver who said an unnamed female told him, "Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein."
The female allegedly told the driver she could not call the police because "they will kill me," but ultimately reported the incident to law enforcement. The limo driver claimed he later found out the woman had been discovered with her head "blown off" in Kiefer, Oklahoma.

It's not the first time Mr. Trump faced unverified claims of rape.
In 2016, an unnamed woman abruptly dropped a lawsuit claiming Mr. Trump and Epstein tied her to a bed and raped her in Epstein's Manhattan home. Her lawyer did not explain dropping the lawsuit, but Mr. Trump and Epstein denied the claim.
Tuesday's document dump also included a handwritten note Epstein wrote shortly before he committed suicide in a New York City jail cell while he awaited prosecution on sex trafficking charges. He wrote to fellow convicted sex offender Larry Nassar that "life is unfair" and that Mr. Trump, whom he described as "our president," "also shares our love of young, nubile girls."

People are such morons. This letter was postmarked August 13, 2019 -- after Epstein was dead -- and was sent from Northern Virginia. Other than that, totally legit https://t.co/oPt2AgVmi7
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 23, 2025

So that letter, in addition to proving nothing (as it was allegedly written by a known Trump hater who was constantly attacking Trump), turns out to be a hoax.

This is one problem with releasing all the files -- the files include a lot of straight-up bullshit. The DOJ accumulates straight-up bullshit and adds it to the file, as they're required to do. But they don't give it credence.

Then it gets released, and retards all think this must be the straight dope because the DOJ released it!!! It was in their files!!! Anything in a file must be true!!!

‼️🇺🇸: The US DOJ just released what was supposed to be a video of Jeffrey Epstein attempting to commit suic1de. 👀

HOWEVER it is a FAKE that was published on YouTube 5 years ago by user chadchaddington5164.

WHY did the DOJ release a FAKE VIDEO? 🤨 pic.twitter.com/fkdCZNaHkE
— Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 (@DiligentDenizen) December 22, 2025

Another hoax:

�He raped me.�

�Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.�

�She was found with her head �blown off�� there was no way it was a suicide.�

Now we�re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse. pic.twitter.com/QJ8T0FzjSn
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) December 23, 2025

No, the document shows unverified allegations from a 2020 tip. The Justice Department, in its recent Epstein file releases, describes these claims as "untrue and sensationalist" due to inconsistencies. No evidence of guilt has been confirmed by official sources.
— Grok (@grok) December 23, 2025

If I had quickly scrawled off a "tip" to the DOJ that Kamala Harris sat on Ghilaine Maxwell's face, that would be "in the files" now, too.

Oh and by the way, Kamala Harris is a decrepit party-girl whore.

🚨NEW: Kamala Harris gives dating advice to single women🍷

"There are different phases in your life ... maybe you're going to choose that you want to have that kind of Friday night relationship � or you want that Sunday morning relationship."

*CACKLES*🤣

"Sometimes you can get� pic.twitter.com/mRjzkNMjXY
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) December 23, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Was the 20 year old Lena Dunham, because that would be pretty damning for all involved. Epstein too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (zZu0s)

2 The walls are closing in on Trump this time!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (0N4FZ)

3 Grrrr

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (Sv5iI)

4 When they gonna get the the pedo island videos.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)

5 The left really has to change the composition of the shit they are flinging against the wall because it has no sticking power.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (sDNVV)

6 All the Democrats involved but they are dying to drag President Trump into it.
Wouldn't doubt that is fake documents

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (Ia/+0)

7 That cackle reminded me of the nuclear weapon America dodged in 2024.

Posted by: Jmel at December 23, 2025 06:08 PM (bVhJi)

8 TRUMP HAD A MULLET!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 06:09 PM (pkeXY)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:09 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Trump has class.

Clinton has underage trollops and STDs no one has seen before.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:09 PM (2GVsD)

11 I can't stand to listen to Kamala. It's a car wreck that you can actually look away from. Only the Dems could put that idiot in a position of power

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 06:09 PM (2vrAX)

12 I didn't know JammieWearingFool was still a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:10 PM (Zz0t1)

13 One thing I haven't seen anyone point out is, when Trump was associating with Epstein, he was a Democrat.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:10 PM (vFG9F)

14 I was on a plane with an adult woman once.

Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge...

Posted by: ...Say No More at December 23, 2025 06:10 PM (oftw2)

15 I just want to know one thing....

What's up with Trump's mullet?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (ESVrU)

16 All he needs is a wife beater, t top camaro and a medallion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

17 Kamala's not dumb like everyone says. She's smart.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (s0JqF)

18 You know I heard a rumor that the searchlight strangler was a sitting senator so if I sent that tip to the authorities and it was subsequently released bada bing bada boom, there's your evidence and maybe 60 minutes will do a story on it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (bLA4G)

19 These 'urinalists' would have published the Hitler Diaries.

They want it to be true.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (2GVsD)

20 I was on a plane with an adult woman once.

Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge...
Posted by: ...Say No More

Whoo Doggie !!!
(High five)

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (/lPRQ)

21 This is all they have and nobody cares. It's all just crap thrown at a Teflon wall.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (vFG9F)

22 Is it lonely out on that rowboat, Kamala?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

23 When is this BS going to end?

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (mrzqz)

24 Sigh, willowed response that I feel needs to be reposted so Mr Christopher Taylor doesn't think I'm a racist -
___
Think of all the things that are called 'acting white' that when non whites do them they are criticized. What are those things? Eating mayonnaise on your sandwich, or being on time for your meeting. The latter, right? The things that are being attacked are the things that make our (formerly) high trust society work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (Dv3i1)

25 WHAT ABOUT THE GREEN GROCERS, ACE?!?

WHAT COLOR IS A GREEN ORANGE?!?

DAMN YOUR EYES, SIR, DAMN THEM!!!

Posted by: j'accuse at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (YSDKn)

26 Speaking of someone who needs a therapist and a life coach - I give you Kamama Harris.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (2GVsD)

27 If I had quickly scrawled off a "tip" to the DOJ that Kamala Harris sat on Ghilaine Maxwell's face, that would be "in the files" now, too.

I mean, I'd probably watch, but wouldn't be my proudest moment.

Posted by: Guy with Low Standards at December 23, 2025 06:13 PM (YJgg/)

28
So there's no "woman" "found" with her "head blown off" in "Oklahoma?"

Because that seems, to me, an important detail. An actual, you know, dead body & name & date. But not to fake Internet Sleuths!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (TWzjC)

29 "When is this BS going to end?
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? "

Never. It's the way of the world.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (vFG9F)

30 We have known for YEARS Trump was on at least one Epstein flight. But Trump never went to the ranch or the island. He only flew from Florida to NY or the reverse.

They keep trying to make hay from the same BS over and over and over and over again. Like the half dozen pictures of Trump and Epstein at some random NOT EPSTEIN HOSTED PARTY.

Epstein was a striver, a grasper, a chiseler. He was all over the east coast power circle party scene and you can find pictures of him with all sorts of people who were also all over the east coast power circle party scene. That doesn't mean they were at his island.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (Yp6az)

31 Trump banged the maid.

Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (gbOdA)

32 We got Trump now!

Also, a Christmas fact: kamala is, in fact, as stated, a ho Ho HO.

Posted by: JML at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (EtRph)

33 What a coincidence. I am an adult woman who has flown on a plane. Not when I was 20 though. My first flight was in a helicopter when I was 24.

Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (98kQX)

34 Speaking of someone who needs a therapist and a life coach - I give you Kamama Harris.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Life coaches - "No way, man. She's more screwed up than we are."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (mlg/3)

35 Back in the 80s I would watch Live at Five on NBC news out of NYC. They had an anchor named Sue Simmons. She had a woman on one day who appeared to be 22-23 and was attractive but very dopey. The report was about her date over the weekend with Donald Trump. You could see Simmons thinking "what am I doing?". Trump was a dog, but a legal dog

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (2vrAX)

36 19 These 'urinalists' would have published the Hitler Diaries.

They want it to be true.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (2GVsD)

Feeling cute today. Might perpetrate a genocide. IDK.

Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (YSDKn)

37 I used to try to keep up with this Epstein stuff, but now I cannot be made to care.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (pE12i)

38 Trump ask for another soda water about an hour into the flight.

Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (gbOdA)

39 The files include a claim by an unnamed limo driver who said an unnamed female told him, "Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein."

Wait, he raped Jeffrey Epstein, too?! This changes everything! Impeach!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (zYpTz)

40 >> I mean, I'd probably watch, but wouldn't be my proudest moment.

We've all been there, bro.

Posted by: David Copperfield at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (w6EFb)

41 Trump said she must have got dressed at the Girls Chess King.

Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (gbOdA)

42
Trump is getting ready to flee to Russia. Kamala will now become president.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (tgvbd)

43
How dare he! How dare he!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (xG4kz)

44 Harris is a idiot

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)

45 THIS PROVES TRUMP LIED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IMPEACHMENT NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (J9q9v)

46 Apparently Debbie Washerwoman "I know nothing!" Schultz went on CNN and lied. They had to immediately fact check her.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (cnokD)

47 I didn't see any pics of Trump swimming in Epstein's pool (eech) with Gislane Maxwell. I don't think I've ever even seen Trump in a bathing suit.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (vFG9F)

48 The Left:

Sauron's name appears hundreds of times in Lord of the Rings.

Therefore, Sauron was part of the Fellowship.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (ph+d0)

49 Trump said she could understand IVR VRF flight rules.

Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (gbOdA)

50 And this is exactly why Trump took the position he did on the obsessive almost psychotic demands that every piece of info , including grand jury testimony on Epstein years after he was dead be released .

30,000 pieces and people still aren't satisfied because there is no nice list that shows who did what with who with a detailed description.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (KDPiq)

51
Trump tore the tag off of Epstein's plane cabin mattress!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (y9nCu)

52 All young girls should follow my steps and have a relationship like me and Willie Brown had....

Posted by: Kami Harris at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (xvV4K)

53 My advice, find an old and very powerful local politician and polish knob all the time. You will go far, maybe not as far as I did but i am a very good willy sucker.

Posted by: Kamalla Harris, Dick Sucker at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (xvV+O)

54 What's up with Trump's mullet?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

It was the style at the time

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (a+4eV)

55 "Note their is no allegation that Trump had sex with the adult woman, hit on the adult woman, received a massage from the adult woman, or even spoke to the adult woman.

The big disclosure being pushed is that there was a plane, and Trump was on it, and also, as if that's not enough, there was a 20-year-old adult woman aboard too!"

---

May need to be verified, but I thought I heard Marla Maples and Don Jr. were also on the flight.

There is, needless to say, no evidence Trump did NOT have sex with Marla.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (cnokD)

56 Also, Willie Brown kind of gave Kamala access to puff on his hookah.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (nljXp)

57 When is this BS going to end?
Posted by: Gmac

Shortly after SMOD impacts DC.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (MolB1)

58 Trump asked a woman if she like gladiator movies.

Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)

59 "It was the style at the time
Posted by: FeatherBlade"

Some of the Horde might even have had hair back then. I'd like to see the pics.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

60 Trump raped my ass in the Ladies Big & Tall while working as a Mall Santa at Tiffany's in 1986. There was a little black dwarf as his helper but the dwarf just watched. I did not shit right for a week. I think Bernie Mack was there too.

Posted by: Mrs. Bob Chipeska at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (R/m4+)

61 Aetius

Check my latest Tensor image please.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (2GVsD)

62 That picture might be 30-40 years old

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (Ia/+0)

63
According to the Daily Mail, Hunter Biden got kicked out of a sex club for inappropriate behavior.

Now, how bad do you have to be......

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)

64 48 The Left:

Sauron's name appears hundreds of times in Lord of the Rings.

Therefore, Sauron was part of the Fellowship.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (ph+d0)

Now do Satan

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)

65 Who really cares about this Epstein BS ????

This is all SCAM to keep BS stories in the Headlines and block all the Trump positive news.

How is knowing what Epstein did change the price of gas food, or Tampons for Boys ???

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (J9q9v)

66 "There are different phases in your life ... maybe you're going to choose that you want to have that kind of Friday night relationship � or you want that Sunday morning relationship."

*CACKLES*🤣

"You know how to do it. You just get on your knees and blow."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:21 PM (Zz0t1)

67 According to the Daily Mail, Hunter Biden got kicked out of a sex club for inappropriate behavior.

He probably tried to cop a free feel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:22 PM (2GVsD)

68 So Camela is easy like Sunday morning?

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

69 Didn't "Choose someone kind" Kamala marry a guy who slapped a bitch in public?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 06:22 PM (wBaIH)

70 So Camela is easy like Sunday morning?

What you take home after an all-night Saturday pub crawl

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (2GVsD)

71 30,000 pieces and people still aren't satisfied because there is no nice list that shows who did what with who with a detailed description.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (KDPiq)

When the FBI came and took boxes and boxes of evidence off the island, there were hard drives and video equipment.

Honestly, I don't give a shit whether the Democrats want to spin this as a Trump scandal. The REAL scandal is your government is covering up for dozens, if not hundreds of rich and powerful men (and women) who were banging underaged girls and boys.

Politicians want to make this about politics. It's not about politics. It's about a government that is corrupt to its core.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (cnokD)

72 Oops. Misspelled "sleazy".

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (vFG9F)

73 Hello.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (hZbnZ)

74 31 Trump banged the maid.
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (gbOdA)

Sorry that was Schwatzennegger

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (gbOdA)

75 Holy shit, I have been on planes with underage girls!

Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (YwEeS)

76 Headless Body In Topless Oklahoma.

Posted by: Ripped From The Headlines at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (oftw2)

77 Holy shit, I have been on planes with underage girls!
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (YwEeS)

I would venture a guess that over 50% of the flights I've been on with American Airlines had underage girls on them.

When is American going to be investigated!!!!!?????

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (Zz0t1)

78
"I tell ya, that chick knew the Global Positioning System like no one's business!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (xG4kz)

79 Honestly, I don't give a shit whether the Democrats want to spin this as a Trump scandal. The REAL scandal is your government is covering up for dozens, if not hundreds of rich and powerful men (and women) who were banging underaged girls and boys.

Politicians want to make this about politics. It's not about politics. It's about a government that is corrupt to its core.
Posted by: BurtTC

++++

Government that is corrupt to its core.
And banging underaged girls and boys.

But, mostly the banging by politicians.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)

80 Mullet Trump is winner Trump!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (hZbnZ)

81 Holy shit, I have been on planes with underage girls!
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (YwEeS)

Don't try to hide it. You've been on planes with underaged boys too.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (cnokD)

82 Again. The BIDEN administration had ALL of these files at their disposal and would've used them to prevent Trump in 2024, but THEY DIDN'T.

You KNOW they went through them with a fine toothed comb too.

There's no there there.

We are at an incredibly f*cking stupid time in the universe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (Zz0t1)

83 Kamala Harris sat on Ghilaine Maxwell's face

Ride em cowgirl.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 06:28 PM (Kt19C)

84 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 06:28 PM (XSP3T)

85 With politicians or media stars it is not about who or what they are banging, it is their use of power to get their way so they can bang whomever they want.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (2GVsD)

86
I suppose I should confess.

When I was in high school, I was surrounded by underaged women every day!!!!!

I even dated some of them!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (iJfKG)

87 Y'all may give Vogue a hard time for being all left-wing and stuff, but they do know a Sharp Dressed Man when they see one:

https://tinyurl.com/hvk3h6cs

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (yZSOm)

88 The last thing I would listen to is Kam Ho giving dating advice! Seeing as how she climbed that pole, er, ladder into politics.

No guy ever tried anything like this crap on me because I gave off vibes of class; as well as I will bobbit you after I beat you to a pulp. It's that simple. I was lucky as well as picky on who I would go out with.

I did have one horrific blind date in junior college, with my friend (who'd date anything with a heartbeat). This guy was pitiful and I would feel sorry for him but can't currently spare anything. Not only ugly but about a foot shorter.

I remember drinking some beers, shooting pool, & hoping I did not die in that pickup cab driving too fast to our dorm. We were almost late for sign in to the convent. I seriously prayed to God not to let me die with that guy.

Never again had a blind date.

Life had been very good. Told my long-suffering husband months ago that I don't need anything. He was bummed today and I said, "Look at what how we started and what we have now! Not just in material things, but family! I have all will ever need and more!"

If it ever snows again we are having dinner at a former castle where we got engaged. That's enough.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (WONhk)

89 Harris is a idiot
Posted by: Skip

Don't tie all the idiots to that woman, it's mean.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (kfTpm)

90 Government that is corrupt to its core.
And banging underaged girls and boys.

But, mostly the banging by politicians.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)

Except it's mostly other people, and not politicians. I know everyone wants to play gotcha with this, to make it about Dems v. Reprobates... I mean Republicans.

It's also university perfessers and administrators, it's CEO's, it's celebrities, media personalities military personnel... etc.

We know our politicians are whores. So's everyone else in power.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (cnokD)

91 >>The BIDEN administration had ALL of these files at their disposal and would've used them to prevent Trump in 2024, but THEY DIDN'T.

>>You KNOW they went through them with a fine toothed comb too.

Old man Biden would have brought a bottle of Jergens along, too.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (W23D2)

92 Government that is corrupt to its core.
And banging underaged girls and boys.

But, mostly the banging by politicians.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)

Joe Biden fingerbanged an intern and showered with his own daughter.

But we're only worried about what Trump did with a dead, convicted serial sex offender 20 years ago, whom was REMOVED BY TRUMP from Mar-a-lago for being a skeezy perv.

Tell me the Democrats have nothing without telling me they have nothing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (Zz0t1)

93 Well one thing is for sure.................

You will not find any pictures of Barry with Epstein because they only had young girls on Fantasy Island....

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (J9q9v)

94 I already knew they were debauched. I just wanted to know if Epstein was extorting people for himself or some intelligence agency. Seems like a no.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (R86kT)

95 >>Now do Satan

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM

Used to be an angel. It's in the Bible.

Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (98kQX)

96 Most of the ewetub videos for this are about how the DOJ did not release 95% of the documents or this new release spelling doom for Trump. Its kind of funny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

97
If someone was smart, they'd tweet Ashley Biden's Diary entries and imply it was an epstein islnad girl and she was talking about Trump.

And when Democrats retweet it, we break the bad news to them.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (cC/25)

98 I was on an airplane with my son and daughter, who were both minors at the time.

The stain will never wash out.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (wBaIH)

99 Y'all may give Vogue a hard time for being all left-wing and stuff, but they do know a Sharp Dressed Man when they see one:

https://tinyurl.com/hvk3h6cs
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (yZSOm)

That's completely asinine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (Zz0t1)

100 >> Honestly, I don't give a shit whether the Democrats want to spin this as a Trump scandal. The REAL scandal is your government is covering up for dozens, if not hundreds of rich and powerful men (and women) who were banging underaged girls and boys.

Yes, they’re covering for Sasquatch, the Tooth fairy, and possibly The Easter Bunny, but he’s a little more aloof.

You would think at some point you’d find and ounce of shame or remorse for the constant bullshit you peddle here. But nope. They’re “hiding something” for which there is no proof, no basis in fact and no credible evidence. None- and you haven’t offered any.

Honestly your act has grown old, putrid and moldy.

Posted by: Troll master Flash at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (egaJw)

101 The files include a claim by an unnamed limo driver who said an unnamed female told him, "Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein."

So he raped her and he raped epstein, did not have have that in the bingo cars. changes things a bit

Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (NS3Vc)

102 The files include a claim by an unnamed limo driver who said an unnamed female told him, "Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein."

This wording makes me think they're accusing Trump of raping the unnamed female and raping Jeffrey Epstein. If the latter were true I could understand why Epstein hated Trump so much. It's not, of course, but if it were...

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (lUFok)

103 This dead horse is not going to get up no matter how much you beat it

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (sDNVV)

104 What we need is common sense progressive control. Progressives, like socialists and Communists, is this thing on?

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (YlWIZ)

105 I also have been on aircraft with adult women. Multiple dozens of times, if not hundreds.

Oh the shame of it all!!

*Pulls paper bag over head*

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (cYBz/)

106 >>I already knew they were debauched. I just wanted to know if Epstein was extorting people for himself or some intelligence agency

To date, we have seen no evidence of extortion.

Not even accusations, really.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (W23D2)

107 I wish there would be some collective pressure on the House and Senate to start passing some Trump agenda items. These EO's won't survive if the Dems cheat their way to another White House some day.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+)

108
The Biden family has not turned up in any of this.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (VWtfl)

109 "You will not find any pictures of Barry with Epstein because they only had young girls on Fantasy Island....
Posted by: Jackson"

I notice Epstein did not even associate with the lowlife Bidens.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (vFG9F)

110 This dead horse is not going to get up no matter how much you beat it
Posted by: Ben Had

And this 'Ette knows a thing or two about horses!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (cYBz/)

111 Hello Theresa!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (uWKK8)

112 Mrs. 20yo woman and Trump were in the airplane making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!

Posted by: Every Leftist at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (3uBP9)

113 You KNOW they went through them with a fine toothed comb too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (Zz0t1)

I don't believe they did. I think they just let the FBI keep them in the vault, what's still there, that is. And burn the rest.

Team Biden wasn't allowed anywhere near them, and if you want to speculate, it's believable that it's because Trump's team is at least TRYING to get this stuff out there, that we're seeing what we are.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (cnokD)

114 Trump has a thing for WOMEN! I like women too.

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (pDt9x)

115 What we need is common sense progressive control.
------

Its been a problem for decades--some of the early Yes and Genesis studio tracks were so long and meandering as to be unlistenable.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (TN0g+)

116
This wording makes me think they're accusing Trump of raping the unnamed female and raping Jeffrey Epstein. If the latter were true I could understand why Epstein hated Trump so much. It's not, of course, but if it were...
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (lUFok)

Remember, journalism degrees should be taken VERY seriously.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (Zz0t1)

117
Epstein, in the library, with the pipe wrench.

Posted by: Clue at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (IifOV)

118 Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (W23D2)

Ok, then why do it? Compromise documents? Steal shit?

Seems to me there has to be a reason for how he went about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (zZu0s)

119 >>So he raped her and he raped epstein, did not have have that in the bingo cars. changes things a bit

It would explain Epstein's disdain for Trump in later years.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (W23D2)

120 108
The Biden family has not turned up in any of this.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (VWtfl)

Biden just kept it in the family.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (zYpTz)

121 So, CNN is....... is changing diapers on an underage girl (2 years old) considered sexual harassment because I touched her little bottom ?????

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (xl8DV)

122 Epstein, in the library, with the pipe wrench.

It was Ms. Scarlet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (2GVsD)

123 Remember, journalism degrees should be taken VERY seriously.

As proof of low intelligence and/or high dishonesty, sure.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (lUFok)

124 Again, I'm thankful for clicking away

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (YlWIZ)

125 To date, we have seen no evidence of extortion.

Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett

it is sort of the thing right, would you expect that the guys getting extorted were going to say they had been extorted by epstein?

Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (NS3Vc)

126 122 Epstein, in the library, with the pipe wrench.

It was Ms. Scarlet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (2GVsD)

Ghislaine Scarlett.

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (pDt9x)

127 I notice Epstein did not even associate with the lowlife Bidens.
Posted by: fd

Even Epstein had some standards.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (cYBz/)

128 Epstein = Russia Trump collusion

Deep down, everyone knows it’s bullshit but the media is gonna have a fun time dripping it out as if there’s an actual story there

Posted by: Maroon at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (cnGye)

129 Cadaver Joe Biden never had to travel to pedo-island for intimacy with a minor, he'd just knock on the bathroom door when his daughter was in the shower.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (nljXp)

130
The only proof that the TDS needs to prove Trump is guilty is he said "pussy" once.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (IifOV)

131 It says something when even Jeffery Epstein finds you creepy.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (vFG9F)

132 @84 hello Teresa, hope you are doing well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (2vrAX)

133 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 06:28 PM (XSP3T)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (Zz0t1)

134 63
According to the Daily Mail, Hunter Biden got kicked out of a sex club for inappropriate behavior.

Now, how bad do you have to be......
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)

I guess even swingers have rules of etiquette. Like:

1. No lube, no love.

2. Parking in the rear by permit only.

What else?

Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (YSDKn)

135 Quit comparing my face to Kami's face......

I will sue in court and make sure I have an Obama appointed Hawaiian Judge hear the case !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Camel (Cigerette Industry Icon) at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (J9q9v)

136 Trump has a thing for WOMEN! I like women too.
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (pDt9x)

Me too. Its nice to be able to confidently and confess to someone who understands.

Big tits are awesome!

See! Its just so freeing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

137 You would think at some point you’d find and ounce of shame or remorse for the constant bullshit you peddle here. But nope. They’re “hiding something” for which there is no proof, no basis in fact and no credible evidence. None- and you haven’t offered any.

Honestly your act has grown old, putrid and moldy.
Posted by: Troll master Flash at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (egaJw)

The evidence is out there. You could find it if you want to. But you don't want to. Because you're a coward.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (cnokD)

138 But seriously.

When's the last time you heard anyone use the word "nubile?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (Zz0t1)

139 Epstein is still alive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (5DEFi)

140 Trump likes women. That's icky - stuff Pete Buttgiggle says

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (2vrAX)

141 "Hunter Biden got kicked out of a sex club for inappropriate behavior."

I'm not casting any stones there.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (vFG9F)

142
If they were to take a black light to the inside of Epsteins Jet, it would be enlightening.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (IifOV)

143 I guess even swingers have rules of etiquette. Like:

1. No lube, no love.

2. Parking in the rear by permit only.

What else?
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (YSDKn)

I assume he came to the club by himself. You have to bring a lady with you if you're a guy.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (KDPiq)

144 I just completed my Hit list from the Epstein files.....

Posted by: Hillary C.... at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (J9q9v)

145 >>Ok, then why do it?

For the love of the game.

Seriously, though. He might have just been a degenerate and had a bunch of degenerate friends.

Apparently, he made his money washing CIA Operations Funds through Bear Stearnes and other Financial Institutions.

But he was sharing domiciles with a known British Arms Dealer and later with a known CIA / DOJ Fixer.
He was hired and employed and managed by former CIA officials.
He was Adnon Kashoggi's 'Broker'.

all of this among other relationships with Billionaire / Millionaire Class gentry.

His hands are all over the financing for a lot of CIA / British / Israeli Intel operations.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (W23D2)

146 But seriously.

When's the last time you heard anyone use the word "nubile?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (Zz0t1)

It's a porn category classification

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (KDPiq)

147 To date, we have seen no evidence of extortion.

Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett

it is sort of the thing right, would you expect that the guys getting extorted were going to say they had been extorted by epstein?
Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (NS3Vc)

Back in the day, politicians and media types used the same logic to explain how there was no such thing as The Mafia.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (cnokD)

148 If there was anything in the Epstein files that could harm Trump, it would have been released ten years ago. Ergo.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (CHHv1)

149 There is, needless to say, no evidence Trump did NOT have sex with Marla.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (cnokD)

Given that they have a child together, that would be difficult evidence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (ExV1e)

150 IF they had ANYTHING on Trump, well, I am certain and would place a large bet on it, that they would have used it against him in 2016.

Hilary, the hag, would have paid for billboards of this. Instead her Bill is featured wagging his dog.

I have never worried about this and think it is retarded.

I also just pre-heated the wrong oven for my dinner tomorrow night (braised beef/guinness pie),and feel retarded myself right now! All is well! I may have more wine soon! It's all good!

We got a lot done today, I keep telling myself. I will probably be comatose by 9pm!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (WONhk)

151 Me too. Its nice to be able to confidently and confess to someone who understands.

Big tits are awesome!

See! Its just so freeing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)/i]

https://is.gd/GcBKz1

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (Zz0t1)

152
Hahahaha!

I cued it up to the real good part:

Democrat black scholar pointing his gun at people on the highway, trying to carjack, Then This Happens, hahaha:

https://is.gd/gDkqXD

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (cC/25)

153 87 Y'all may give Vogue a hard time for being all left-wing and stuff, but they do know a Sharp Dressed Man when they see one:

https://tinyurl.com/hvk3h6cs
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (yZSOm)
Him and BadBunny.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (LHPAg)

154 Epstein did not give himself a slap on the wrist the first time, our supposed betters did.

Much like JFK only the Gov. has the power to pull this shit.

Corrupt since before I was born.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (cS1cw)

155
It's a porn category classification

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (KDPiq)

From 1978.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:41 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Big tits are awesome!

There others who share this opinion.

https://youtu.be/EenHDdqMRO0

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (lUFok)

157 When's the last time you heard anyone use the word "nubile?"
Posted by: Sponge

Columbus Africentric Early College (in Columbus, Ohio) has the mascot the Nubians.

Full of aspiring rappers, doctors and astronauts no doubt.

That city is so f**ked.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (cYBz/)

158
Well, obviously grounds for impeachment.

Vance first, so some squish can be emplaced to take over like they did to Nixon.

Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (YAFrp)

159 he'd just knock on the bathroom door

KNOCK??

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (Kt19C)

160 Don't make your last stand with a pink gun.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (5DEFi)

161 There is, needless to say, no evidence Trump did NOT have sex with Marla.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (cnokD)

Given that they have a child together, that would be difficult evidence.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (ExV1e)

I dunno, as Trump has shown quite effectively, it IS possible to fake a birth certificate.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (cnokD)

162 It's a porn category classification

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (KDPiq)

From 1978.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:41 PM (Zz0t1)

This is a trap right?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (KDPiq)

163 >>Back in the day, politicians and media types used the same logic to explain how there was no such thing as The Mafia.

There's ample evidence he was a middleman for CIA Arms Trade around multiple CIA backed Coups.

There is none proffered to date that he was running a blackmail operation.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (W23D2)

164 Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey
Epstein.
Trump's no homophobic bigot, hater!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (XMwZJ)

165
See that?
Those Oklamhomans said fuckyou and tried to run that Democrat carjacker the fuck over.

If that was here, in Massachoosetts, people would be pulling over and putting their hands up, surrendering their cars to him.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (pq1n7)

166 Epstein, in the library, with the pipe wrench.

It was Ms. Scarlet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (2GVsD)

That's a lie!

Posted by: Miss Scarlett at December 23, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

167 This is a trap right?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (KDPiq)

LOL.

At least I'm not Ackbar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:44 PM (Zz0t1)

168 Democrat black scholar pointing his gun at people on the highway, trying to carjack, Then This Happens, hahaha:

https://is.gd/gDkqXD

Posted by: Soothsayer

++++

Make sure you play with sound on -

Sproing
Sproing
Sproing...

ARs, the gun that goes Sproing!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:44 PM (/lPRQ)

169 If you hit a car jacker and he winds up onyour hood brake, and then floor it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:45 PM (5DEFi)

170 To date, we have seen no evidence of extortion.

Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (W23D2)

Yacht girls who didn't put out would never be harmed... but word would get out and the fun times would end.

Extortion isn't needed for people who seek particular pleasures.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:45 PM (ExV1e)

171 Epstein did not give himself a slap on the wrist the first time, our supposed betters did.

Much like JFK only the Gov. has the power to pull this shit.

Corrupt since before I was born.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (cS1cw)

Yeah, a lot of the evidence that exists came from the Florida case that got swept under the rug. There were something like 70 women who gave depositions, and were ready to testify in court.

Only to have the court cut them out of the proceedings, when they gave Epstein a slap on the wrist.

The prosecutor was told "He's one of ours" by some spooks. So it got buried.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:45 PM (cnokD)

172 I would like to apologize to world for my sins. I admit I like BBBs.

Big Breasted Babes......

There is something Geometric about a woman's body with large round breastal units and a plump round glutenous maximus muscles.

I blame this on my Professors from college that got me interested into Geometry, Mathematics, and Physics...

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:46 PM (J9q9v)

173
ARs, the gun that goes Sproing!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

lol, the Democrat black scholar had a pink gun...

how embarrassing

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (/lVAo)

174 Ghislaine Scarlett.
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM

In the hot tub. With the green dildo.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (Wnv9h)

175 The only proof that the TDS needs to prove Trump is guilty is he said "pussy" once.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (IifOV)

He was working on the lyrics to a rap song. Ahead of his time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (ExV1e)

176
What make is that pink gun??

Is that the Susan Koman Special, or something??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (/lVAo)

177 Trump. In the changing room. With a Bad Dragon and a bottle of Dom.

Posted by: Clue: SVU Edition at December 23, 2025 06:48 PM (YSDKn)

178 lol, the Democrat black scholar had a pink gun...

how embarrassing
Posted by: Soothsayer

So he would not lose it when he got high.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:48 PM (/lPRQ)

179 In the hot tub. With the green dildo.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
---

And a black box right over everything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 06:49 PM (Mis34)

180 So, Johnny would like to pet my Pussy ?

Yes Raquel, but you have to get that damn cat off your lap first......

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:49 PM (J9q9v)

181
Youtube comment for video above:

Hit by two cars you’re trying to carjack with a stolen pink pistol only to be Swiss cheesed by an AR. What a bad way to go out hahaha

Did one of us write that?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (RGjYe)

182 There is none proffered to date that he was running a blackmail operation.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (W23D2)

Blackmail?

There are named university bigwigs who went to the island, had sex with a girl, and subsequently played ball.

Epstein was a partner with Gates on these projects, and they were trying to get scientists to do their bidding.

The tech gazillionaires are neck deep in this stuff, but I sincerely doubt anyone had to say to them "We have you on video banging little girls, so do what we say."

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (cnokD)

183 Playboy Mansion Grotto vs. Epstein's Plane

Posted by: The Microbe Wars at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (oftw2)

184 And a black box right over everything.

Posted by: Braenyard

That's 'Box of Color' please!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (cYBz/)

185 Black is the absence of color.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM (5DEFi)

186 You know I heard a rumor that the searchlight strangler was a sitting senator so if I sent that tip to the authorities and it was subsequently released bada bing bada boom, there's your evidence and maybe 60 minutes will do a story on it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (bLA4G)
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Searchlight Strangler... there's a blast from the past.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM (9Gsa+)

187 Playboy Mansion Grotto vs. Epstein's Plane

Posted by: The Microbe Wars at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (oftw2)

Probably do not want to wear anything that can't be sanitized either place.

Posted by: Miss Scarlett at December 23, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

188 185 Black is the absence of color.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM (5DEFi)

Persons of uncolor.

Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:52 PM (YSDKn)

189 Boxes to hide the naughty bits.

Dignity boxes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

190 Epstein, in the pantry, with a lemon.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 06:54 PM (nljXp)

191 The pink gun may have been intentional. A lot of Uber lib areas dictate that toy guns have to be in vivid colors. The gang bangers went out and got a few cans of Krylon. Police mistake real gun for a toy and hesitate to shoot the aspiring rapper yute.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 06:54 PM (gm9Sb)

192 Democrat black scholar pointing his gun at people on the highway, trying to carjack, Then This Happens, hahaha:
https://is.gd/gDkqXD

That man is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 23, 2025 06:55 PM (R/m4+)

193 Anonymous sources tell me Donald Trump gave Bill Clinton a BJ when he was 6 years old!

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 06:55 PM (v0R5T)

194
Very OT.

I'm making Christmas ornaments with the laser cutter i got several months ago when I got my lateral new job and pay bump.

Simple "O" with "i only have one" curved around the top, &"and it's hanging by a thread" around the bottom. "FUCK" is quite litteraly hanging by a thread in the center.

Smash has already claimed one and put it on the tree. Junior-ette has claimed four, one for her, and one each for her three dorm mates. My Moron nephew wants one, and his kid a former 155mm crewman wants one as well.

I still need to make Smash's last present. A two-sided indicator with "clean" on one side and "dirty" on the other with magnets to stick it on the dishwasher.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 06:55 PM (QVmho)

195
lol, the Democrat black scholar had a pink gun...

how embarrassing
Posted by: Soothsayer
---

Easy there, Anne Barnhardt had the first pink AR custom built that she may invite Muslims to come and take it, which she did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 06:56 PM (Mis34)

196 There is nothing wrong with him now. He's good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:56 PM (5DEFi)

197 Have TJM on tv

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)

198 "Police mistake real gun for a toy and hesitate to shoot the aspiring rapper yute.
Posted by: bill in arkansas"

That is so fking perfect.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)

199 You know I heard a rumor that the searchlight strangler was a sitting senator so if I sent that tip to the authorities and it was subsequently released bada bing bada boom, there's your evidence and maybe 60 minutes will do a story on it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (bLA4G)
---

What are you implying?

Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (KDPiq)

200 >>There are named university bigwigs who went to the island, had sex with a girl, and subsequently played ball.

Played Ball how?

Played Ball when?

Played Ball where?

Honestly, it's a great story...but. it is entirely supposition.

We know he was working for the cutout for the CIA. We know he was working with the arms dealers who supplied the arms for at least 3-4 armed conflicts that the CIA was involved in.

All of this is on the record.

But you want to believe a notion that may or may not be true, but has never been corroborated in any way...

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (W23D2)

201 HE WAS JUST TURNING HIS LIFE AROUND! Anybody got Benjamin Crump's phone number?

Posted by: Pink Democrat Scholar's alert close relative at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (yZSOm)

202 The Police should have shot him more times.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (5DEFi)

203 Even if that's right, it would be one plus one plus two plus one, not one plus one plus one plus two plus one.

Posted by: Miss Scarlett at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (1wjle)

204 95 >>Now do Satan

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM

Used to be an angel. It's in the Bible.
Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (98kQX)

My point Just cause it is in the Bible

IT IS NOT RIGHT OR JUST

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (gbOdA)

205 Why did that gun sound so sick?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (5DEFi)

206 Satan the Patriarch?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:00 PM (5DEFi)

207 Could it beeeee.............

Posted by: Church Lady at December 23, 2025 07:01 PM (Zz0t1)

208 205 Why did that gun sound so sick?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (5DEFi)

It has information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:01 PM (YSDKn)

209 194 Bif, why do you call your significant other “Smash?”

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)

210 Columbus Africentric Early College (in Columbus, Ohio) has the mascot the Nubians.

What’s a Nubian?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK)

211 But you want to believe a notion that may or may not be true, but has never been corroborated in any way...
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (W23D2)

Corroborated how?

There are depositions. You can find them if you want to look, but the court punted on the case, so it never got that far.

That's how coverups work. You can choose not to believe ALL those women who were ready to testify, but they gave names.

What we don't have are the thousands and thousands of hours of video that was recorded in the three sites where Epstein operated. Where rich and powerful men (and women) came and went. For years.

Honestly, you have to really really WANT none of it to be true to not recognize what this was.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:03 PM (aIUZW)

212 $20 Same as in town.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:03 PM (5DEFi)

213 "What’s a Nubian?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair"

Twenty bucks, same as in town.

Posted by: Uhura at December 23, 2025 07:03 PM (vFG9F)

214 If the perp was still alive when they took him to the hospital the military definitely need to replace the M16/14.

Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)

215 They are trying to tar you and me with the Epstein pedo brush. That's what this is about. They need something to say about Trump, something to tell people, and Russia failed, as did everything else so far.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (E0p3T)

216 The tech gazillionaires are neck deep in this stuff, but I sincerely doubt anyone had to say to them "We have you on video banging little girls, so do what we say.

While I was having wanton sex with underage girls on the island is when it came to me. Man Boobs, African Stunt Babies and vaccines.

Love me.

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (R/m4+)

217 M4

Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)

218
Bif, why do you call your significant other “Smash?”
Posted by: Bulg

It's Army spang for Sergeant Major. Since the duty roster introduced us, and brought us together, AND she immediately took charge of my slacker grab ass-tic e4 mafia attitude....

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (QVmho)

219 What’s a Nubian?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK)

Some of rhe greatest horsemen of rhe ancient world. Started out as a... client/ally of Carthage. Then swapped sides during the Second Punic War.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

220 No wait. That was Numidians.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

221 214 If the perp was still alive when they took him to the hospital the military definitely need to replace the M16/14.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)

I don't mind him having a few brief moments to contemplate his choices.

Also, given law enforcement's track record for marksmanship, I'm not sure I want them upgrading.

Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (YSDKn)

222 The Noobians are just hopeless neophytes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

223 People from the Canary Islands ruled Mali.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:07 PM (5DEFi)

224 "What’s a Nubian?
Twenty bucks, same as in town.

“Cross the ~~streams~~ jokes. There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:07 PM (EXyHK)

225 Why did that gun sound so sick?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Buffer spring.
Cops camera is picking up the the "sproing".

You can hear it more clear when you get a check weld on the stock.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 07:07 PM (/lPRQ)

226 >>There are depositions. You can find them if you want to look, but the court punted on the case, so it never got that far.

>>That's how coverups work. You can choose not to believe ALL those women who were ready to testify, but they gave names.

You are leaping to the conclusion that this was a honeypot scenario without any proof at all. None.

There are no depositions where anyone makes that accusation.

There are no fiscal records linking him to blackmail or payments.

Not a single person associated with him, charged or uncharged has intimated to being blackmailed or extorted.

It is equally as likely, if not more likely, that these are all just degenerates.

If anyone was blackmailing people re. their association with Epstein, I would posit it is the CIA and Intel Services.
Not Epstein himself.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 07:08 PM (W23D2)

227 Also, given law enforcement's track record for marksmanship, I'm not sure I want them upgrading.
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (YSDKn)

What's wrong with their marksmanship?

Posted by: Imperial Storm Troopers at December 23, 2025 07:08 PM (yZSOm)

228 Jugurtha was white.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:08 PM (5DEFi)

229 I have sat next to adult women on planes many times. No sex. Well there were those several times when the woman next to me was my wife. Lots of sex.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM (qFwJc)

230 You are leaping to the conclusion that this was a honeypot scenario without any proof at all. None.

There are no depositions where anyone makes that accusation.

Why would the girls even be in the know?

Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM (YSDKn)

231

Buffer spring.
Cops camera is picking up the the "sproing".
You can hear it more clear when you get a check weld on the stock.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

*shudders*
I lurve it when my AR-10 does that with 250 grain rounds. 30 or 40 of those at the range and my shoulder knows I've been at the range.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM (QVmho)

232 What’s a Nubian?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK)
-----

Some of rhe greatest horsemen of rhe ancient world. Started out as a... client/ally of Carthage. Then swapped sides during the Second Punic War.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

A little Roman history is never a bad thing. Thank you.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (gKDq2)

233 I'm going to need a bigger umbrella.

Posted by: It's raining shit outside at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (DsA2n)

234 Black is the absence of color.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM

Not so fast, Kemosabe.

Some that's, for example, blue, when seen under only red light will appear black.

Also, when discussing pigments, black is a mixture of all colors.

You may wish to consult some of Bob Ross' videos for more information on that last sentence.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (0sNs1)

235 Bob Ross loved him some Prussian Blue.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (5DEFi)

236

noooddd

noood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (0RrTI)

237 "Sometimes you can get both — and sometimes they just is oil and water. And that's okay! Be in those phases where you are having fun!"
=====

Who bitch is dis?
/obligatory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (9ipOP)

238 Nood.

Posted by: Imperial Storm Troopers at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (yZSOm)

239 A little Roman history is never a bad thing. Thank you.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (gKDq2)

Oops. Just remembered the Nubians were part of Ancient Egyptian history. Oh well.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (gKDq2)

240 The Nissan Nubian was intended to be a straight up competitor for the Volkswagen Cabriolet convertible. Unfortunately the styling didn't catch on, the color choices weren't right and the odd shaped rear bumper was not amenable to the ever popular breast cancer awareness stickers considered mandatory by the chick car crowd. Production ceased after only two years.

Posted by: Car Nerd at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (SzjyL)

241 I have sat next to adult women on planes many times. No sex.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM

Thank you for your submission.

Unfortunately, it does not meet our needs at this time.

Posted by: Assistant Associate Penthouse Letters Editor at December 23, 2025 07:13 PM (0sNs1)

242 So, I finished watching "South Pacific." When I was young, 1964, I heard about it but it never came to the Roxy Theater.

But there seemed to be a blackout of it for 40 years. I didn't see it until I was 50+ on Prime.

Was the theme of racial bias a factor? I love the film. It's a musical.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:13 PM (qFwJc)

243 Everything about the Epstein Files is a (ahem) … phallacy.

Posted by: Dr_No at December 23, 2025 07:14 PM (ayRl+)

244 >>Why would the girls even be in the know?

This is my point, the depositions are about the abuse.

We know the abuse happened.
We know Epstein and Maxwell facilitated and participated in the abuse.
We know several dozens of others are accused of participating as well.

We have no idea if there was a purpose beyond the abuse, itself. That is all I am pointing out.

There doesn't seem to be any revenue stream from blackmail.

But there is a whole lot of evidence that the money came directly from the CIA, went to Bear Stearnes, then on to Arms Dealers (Iran Contra, Africa, Afghanistan) and finally to Guerilla factions in the form of weapons and money.

In return the CIA was getting drugs and revolutions.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (W23D2)

245 What’s a Nubian?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK
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Bitch, you almost made me laugh.

Posted by: Hooper X at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (9Gsa+)

246 IT IS NOT ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID AND
ITS ALL ABOUT BATTLESHIPS

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (Ct6ou)

247 Ohhh don't worry there is a lot worse to cone Ace

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (Ct6ou)

248 Acquaintance ? They were best fyi red da for decades.manis was one of Epstein escorts

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (Ct6ou)

249 Acquaintance ? They were best fyi red da for decades.manis was one of Epstein escorts
They were best friends each had weird dicks

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (Ct6ou)

250 The pope is a Chicago Democrat.
What if we all beat the dead horse, BH, would that work?
I need to teach my kid how to make a Dr. Pepper and vanilla ice cream float.

Posted by: Accomack at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (T8bqm)

251 "Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein."

Trump raped Epstein too?

Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 23, 2025 08:52 PM (kvDvI)

252 What is ASS doing up this late?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:04 PM (Zz0t1)

253 Lol. Trump and Eggstein were besties.

How pathetic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (Zz0t1)

254 I once flew on a plane with a 18 year old... and some 60 year olds, some in their mid-20s, a few in their fifties.

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (lCppi)

Axios: Insubordinate CBS Liar Sharyn Alfonsi Told Viewers That Trump Officials Had Refused Comment On the Story. In Fact, They Provided Comment -- She Just Refused to Air Their Denials.

For those wondering "How can this insubordinate liar not get fired?," I've got great news: I think she will be fired. I thought she would probably be fired before this for insubordination. I'm pretty sure she wrote her "Bari is a Trump censor" email with the knowledge that a confederate would leak it for her (or she leaked it herself).

If I had to guess, I'd guess she already knew she was on the list of candidates for firing and decided on the Jimmy Kimmel strategy of raising a stink among her left-wing allies to create pressure on the network to keep her.

But this new report from Axios means that no amount of pressure from her left-wing allies can save her. The media still pretends that straight-up lying is a fireable offense. Of course it's not; lying is the soul of their soulless profession.

If you lie and the right people notice -- like your boss, who you just tried to #Cancel -- then the pretense that lying is a fireable offense becomes reality.

Axios:

The other side: The segment ends with Alfonsi saying the Department of Homeland Security "declined our request for an interview and referred all questions about CECOT to El Salvador. The government there did not respond to our request."
The segment included previous comments made by President Trump, who said El Salvador's prison system has "very strong facilities, and they don't play games."
It also includes a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt previously saying, "These are heinous monsters, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sexual assaulters, predators who have no right to be in this country, and they must be held accountable."
Between the lines: According to a source familiar with "60 Minutes" correspondence with the administration, the "60 Minutes" team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News.
None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios.
CBS declined to comment.

Axios was able to view it, of course, because despite the piece being held up by Bari Weiss, somehow it wound up airing in communist Canada.

Which is almost certainly another case of gross insubordination.

From the 60 Minutes segment:

"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."

Uhhh, yeah https://t.co/L7MlIh18QI pic.twitter.com/b21b4U5nES
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 23, 2025

No, don't, stop.

Ian Jaeger
@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: A significant amount of CBS News employees are considering quitting after they feel like the company has become Pro- Trump.

Most won't. As Chuck Ross noted yesterday, there are fewer and fewer jobs for unskilled, unethical media "reporters." These filthy degenerates will cling to their unearned checks until security drags them out the front doors.

But as for Alfonsi: I think she'll "separate" from CBS days after the New Year.

Ed Morrissey reminds us that Sharyn Alfonsi has played these games before. When she ran her lying hit piece on Ron DeSantis, which even DeSantis' Democrat opponents told her wasn't true and warned her not to run the false defamation, her package neatly clipped out DeSantis' detailed denial of the charges.

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

T. Becket Adams
@BecketAdams
Oh hey, Sharyn Alfonsi. I remember her.
From a failed 2021 "60 Minutes" hit job that went unanswered and unexplained:
"In the 60 Minutes segment that aired this weekend, CBS News's Sharyn Alfonsi tells DeSantis, 'Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach.'
The popular grocery store chain donated $25,000 to the Friends of DeSantis political committee on Nov. 13, 2019, and again on Jan. 28, 2020. Later, between Dec. 7-Dec. 31, 2020, it donated a total of $100,000 to the committee. Then, in January 2021, DeSantis announced the state had paired with Publix to make vaccines available to the public.
'How is that not pay for play?' Alfonsi asked the governor this weekend.
'What you're saying is wrong," DeSantis answered. "It's wrong. It's a fake narrative.'
That's all CBS showed of his response -- a straight denial with no substantive explanation.
However, there's more to the story. DeSantis actually offered a detailed explanation for Publix's involvement in vaccinating Floridians. These exculpatory remarks were left on the cutting room floor. Additional facts regarding Florida's vaccine program were likewise omitted from CBS's report, as were denials of this bogus conspiracy theory by even state Democrats."

Yes, she kept in five word denial -- but without allowing DeSantis to explain why her phony charges were so clearly fake. She denied the audience their right to hear from the Accused.

Even left-wing Politi"Fact" noted that this kind of edit, omitting someone's substantive defense of his actions so that the public may not hear it, can be considered "deceptive editing."

"Deceptive editing" means a clip "has been edited and rearranged," according to the Washington Post's guide to manipulated video. Deceptive editing can include omission ("editing out large portions from a video and presenting it as a complete narrative" to "skew reality") and splicing ("editing together disparate videos (that) fundamentally alters the story that is being told").
By omitting DeSantis' remarks on why the state partnered with Publix to distribute vaccines in Palm Beach County, the "60 Minutes" clip could fall into the former category.

So I don't think she'll be at CBS much longer. But she is attempting to make herself a Victim who is always owed a job at another left-wing media company.

Related: The Washington Post cuts more opinion columnists.

They�re having a really bad day at the Washington Post.

Honestly, this latest news should come as no surprise.

When you fabricate quotes and deceive your readers, it�s no wonder people are canceling their subscriptions.

Good riddance! https://t.co/CuSGwcv2IA pic.twitter.com/119NXGFetm
— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) December 23, 2025

Yeah, none of the #ResistanceHeroes threatening to quit CBS will quit.

Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"

Posted by: Ace at 04:40 PM

Comments

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1 ?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)

2 Still not life changing posting early

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:39 PM (UdiE9)

3 It's here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (5DEFi)

4 And I read the post

Posted by: Blanco at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (q83gU)

5 Not even. I just can't.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (YlWIZ)

6 Yeah, none of the #ResistanceHeroes threatening to quit CBS will quit.

Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"

Legends in their own minds.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

7 Sonofagun. I didn't think that old trick still worked.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:42 PM (OUMaO)

8
I got "First!" once.

It changed my life.

Immediately thereafter, I was crowned King of Calsmorkian Island.

The place was a dump so I sold my kingship for enough cash to get a ticket home and a Dogo Argentino.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 04:42 PM (iJfKG)

9 California: no plastic, just paper.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (YlWIZ)

10 Sad trombone for the pure journalists that have to endure such abuse

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (jvxGE)

11 The place was a dump so I sold my kingship for enough cash to get a ticket home and a Dogo Argentino.

Posted by: naturalfake

Honestly, the pup alone put you out ahead on the deal.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (OUMaO)

12 6 Yeah, none of the #ResistanceHeroes threatening to quit CBS will quit.

Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"

Legends in their own minds.
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And behind the times, as usual. Jimmy Kimmel was probably the last person to be able to play the fake "victim of Trump" card, and he only succeeded because he works for Disney. And he got a measly one year extension. That avenue is closed for future presstitutes.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (UdiE9)

13 What kind of name is Sharyn Alfonsi? Is that Slavic?

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (qFwJc)

14 So those are protest tats?

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:44 PM (YlWIZ)

15 Yeah, none of the #ResistanceHeroes threatening to quit CBS will quit.

Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"
====

Why would they suddenly be truthful about that?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 04:44 PM (A0sqA)

16 7 Sonofagun. I didn't think that old trick still worked.
--------------------------
What, predicting the url of the next comment? I wonder if Elric has "The Blade is sharp!" comments posted months in advance on yet-to-exist threads on this site.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (UdiE9)

17 From here and redstate/hotair, I read it as she said they refused to be interviewed. Trying to make it appear as the WH had no comment. What's that called? Conflation?

"See? I never said they didn't comment. I just said they refused to be interviewed."

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (CyFyf)

18 Leftists lie with the ease you breath
Dennis Prager

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)

19
These old media types are so used to not being called out or held accountable by their bosses. The asylum has been run by the crazies for so long accountability is foreign to them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (IifOV)

20 The pullback is slow, but the tide has definitely turned. More and more, if they have money (which many do) will be retreating to substack, where no one will pay any attention to their shit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (uWKK8)

21 What, predicting the url of the next comment? I wonder if Elric has "The Blade is sharp!" comments posted months in advance on yet-to-exist threads on this site.

Posted by: the lower depths

To be honest I thought Pixy had plugged that hole years ago. Been a while since I tried...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (OUMaO)

22 9 California: no plastic, just paper.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (YlWIZ)

Wiping your ass with plastic sucks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

23 At the end of the last thread I left a comment about a true situation where academic researcher hired by my company just lied to a big customer and destroyed the company.

He felt he had to lie to get what he wanted. This is how they think. I have seen it in grant funded research, and in family, and of course we have all seen it in politics.

People have no allegiance to the truth and that is a problem. Maybe another 10 million Somalians will save us.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (jNFIZ)

24 Due diligence used to be a thing reporters did. I don't remember when that was, but I remember hearing about it. Journalists don't do due diligence, I guess.

Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 04:47 PM (98kQX)

25 It makes you wonder just how stupid these people are. Bezos and Bari Weiss have made it abundantly clear that the old ways of sliming non-liberals in general, and Trump in particular, are verboten.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

26 " another case of gross insubordination."

That reminds me. I gotta order another case of disobedience. There are 144 fluid ozs of rebellion per case. Tastes like YooHoo.

Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (GHIyr)

27 Janet Weiss >>> Bari Weiss

Posted by: Brad Majors at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (0sNs1)

28 Anti-Semites now blaming a Jew for the Zodiac and Black Dahlia murders. Quelle surprise.

Posted by: will it ever end? at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (PsQIj)

29 23 At the end of the last thread I left a comment about a true situation where academic researcher hired by my company just lied to a big customer and destroyed the company.

He felt he had to lie to get what he wanted. This is how they think. I have seen it in grant funded research, and in family, and of course we have all seen it in politics.

People have no allegiance to the truth and that is a problem. Maybe another 10 million Somalians will save us.
------------------------------
Yeah, that was a good comment. The fact that he came from a European academic background (if I read it right) really seems to make sense. It also explains the suicidal way that continent is run.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (UdiE9)

30 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

31 13 What kind of name is Sharyn Alfonsi? Is that Slavic?

Imbecilic.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

32 How did they blame that on the Palestinians?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (5DEFi)

33 Willowed -
484 Hah, just double checked - lowest tier for couple that is 60 is $1350/mo rising to $1750/mo for Bronze tier -$9100 deductible. Lower deductible Silver $1800 rising to $2200 $8900 deductible. Poor health and need Gold? $2,050 to $2550 ‐ $2500 deductible.

2025 is w/o subsidy reduction. Typical subsidy is $900/mo so increase is $300 plus $900 from loss of subsidy. Be prepared to spend $15,000 more for Obamacare next year!
___

I'm just going by AI research, so I could be wrong, but they are similar to numbers I was looking at a couple months ago researching for retirement costs before medicare kicks in. Commentor Opinionfact has different numbers.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (Dv3i1)

34 There are probably many more people reading about CBS palace intrigue than there are people consuming actual CBS content now.

Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (GHIyr)

35 "It's not mis or disinformation when it pertains to the Trump administration."

- - -- - - Nina Jankowicz

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

36 18 Leftists lie with the ease you breath
Dennis Prager

They speak the devil's native language.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:50 PM (Dv3i1)

37 Nina Jankowicz
Pollack?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (5DEFi)

38 25 It makes you wonder just how stupid these people are. Bezos and Bari Weiss have made it abundantly clear that the old ways of sliming non-liberals in general, and Trump in particular, are verboten.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

Not stupid at least in the way that you mean - but the ones like Alfonzi are one trick ponies that have no ability or interest in doing things any differently than they have always done them. They won't change because they can't.

I'm not sure which is more amusing - just to fire them outright, or to let them keep working and then let them see you throw everything they work on into the trash as soon as they finish it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (uWKK8)

39 I hate to have to explain the joke but I want there to be no misunderstanding. It the film "The Burbs", new strange neighbors move in. The Great Bruce Dern, is told their name is "Kopec."

When meeting them, he asks "Kopec, Is that Slavic?"

I like to joke about it.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (qFwJc)

40
Bri. An. Stel.Ter.

Posted by: Sam Gangee at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs1)

41
Taylor Lorenz thinks this is unacceptable.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (IifOV)

42 If you have to lie to make your point, then you don't have one. Except maybe on your head. Maybe that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (6Bc88)

43 Bezos for sure and Bari Weiss probably are not Trump supporters. They just want to recreate the image of a non-partisan media. But idiot DEI hires and even formerly shrewd people who have severe Trump (now even Trump Supporter) Derangement Syndrome refuse to go along with the boss. That plus the lying should mean instant firing but I'll believe it when I read it here, or possibly hear it on talk radio. (I wont see it on air, I'm managing a complete boycott of TV propaganda)

Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 04:52 PM (hhkIi)

44 40
Bri. An. Stel.Ter.
Posted by: Sam Gangee

Boil 'em, mash 'em stick 'em in a stew?
That's what a sex machine do!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:52 PM (Dv3i1)

45 I miss pollock jokes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (5DEFi)

46

Resistance hero
Stars in her eyes

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (pkeXY)

47
60 minutes may be fake.
But it's accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (SzjyL)

48 The left absolutely cannot stand the reality that everyone hates them. The lived on Twitter for a decade deriding and cancelling anything deemed unworthy when in reality, everyone else hates them. Now their bubble is burst and reality is crashing down.

No wonder they lost their minds when Elon bought Twitter

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (XLfSN)

49 "It's not mis or disinformation when it pertains to the Trump administration."

- - -- - - Nina Jankowicz

Nono YankMyBizz

Posted by: That guy who always makes lame sexual jokes by altering the name at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

50 "I miss pollock jokes."

Huh? If anything, there are more fish puns than ever.

Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (GHIyr)

51 25
38
I doubt Bari Weiss (who seems to think she can fix CBS, bless her heart) is willing to humiliate Alfonsi, but that would be perfect, especially if it's done in a ritualistic and humiliating fashion. Send her to Wyoming to do a worthless nothing story, and then shit-can the results (after leaking how bad the story was). Rinse. Wash. Repeat.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (UdiE9)

52 26 " another case of gross insubordination."

That reminds me. I gotta order another case of disobedience. There are 144 fluid ozs of rebellion per case. Tastes like YooHoo.
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (GHIyr)

Gin works pretty well in a pinch.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (6Bc88)

53 Not stupid at least in the way that you mean - but the ones like Alfonzi are one trick ponies that have no ability or interest in doing things any differently than they have always done them. They won't change because they can't.

My favorite definition of intelligence is the ability to adapt to a new environment. By that definition, these "reporters" are on par with Zippy the Pinhead.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

54 Send her to Wyoming to do a worthless nothing story, and then shit-can the results (after leaking how bad the story was). Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (UdiE9)

Air drop her into Sudan to do some on the spot reporting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (uWKK8)

55 39 I hate to have to explain the joke but I want there to be no misunderstanding. It the film "The Burbs", new strange neighbors move in. The Great Bruce Dern, is told their name is "Kopec."

When meeting them, he asks "Kopec, Is that Slavic?"

I like to joke about it.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (qFwJc

Satan is good. Satan is our pal.

Posted by: Ray, you're chanting. at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (3sN3b)

56 So what's going on here? Let's put aside the idea that Hunter Biden has suddenly embraced honesty.

They're textbook examples of "constitutionally incapable of being honest".

Posted by: DaveA at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (FhXTo)

57 Send her to Wyoming to do a worthless nothing story, and then shit-can the results (after leaking how bad the story was). Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM

Wyoming doesn't deserve that. Wyomingites are good folk. Kind of the Texans of the West.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (0sNs1)

58 If you have to lie to make your point, then you don't have one. Except maybe on your head. Maybe that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (6Bc8

I think the current ethos is "if I lie and enough people believe me, that makes it true"

because reality is subject to peer pressure or something.

Shoot, burn the old women and everyone admits afterwards they were witches--because otherwise it was murder, and everyone left who isn't smoking bones and char would be to blame.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (rbvCR)

59 Is there a good wheater or rye? I think corn is a problem.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (5DEFi)

60
I miss pollock jokes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (5DEFi)

You mean like this?

I caught a pollock once.

Thank cod that's the only one I haddock.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (iJfKG)

61 I dislike "reality via peer pressure" because it requires me to count the lights wrong. Every. Time.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (rbvCR)

62 BREAKING: A significant amount of CBS News employees are considering quitting after they feel like the company has become Pro- Trump.

DO IT! DO IT NOW!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

63 40
Bri. An. Stel.Ter.
Posted by: Sam Gangee.
......................................
youtu.be/4Qqendp1kLE

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (sAmhv)

64 How come all these woke journalists stories are 'SHE deceptively edited...' 'HER claims were found to be lies' , 'SHE alleges the White House...'

Seems to be a common thread .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (KDPiq)

65 43 Bezos for sure and Bari Weiss probably are not Trump supporters. They just want to recreate the image of a non-partisan media. But idiot DEI hires and even formerly shrewd people who have severe Trump (now even Trump Supporter) Derangement Syndrome refuse to go along with the boss. That plus the lying should mean instant firing but I'll believe it when I read it here, or possibly hear it on talk radio. (I wont see it on air, I'm managing a complete boycott of TV propaganda)
----------------------------
It's probably a blessing for us that the DEI hires are so slow. Some people might fall for CBS being respectable again. We wouldn't, but then we are not normies when it comes to political news. If Weiss or Bezos succeeded, the problem would just reemerge in the future, like a looney you allowed to move back in with you because they promised to behave better this time.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (UdiE9)

66 I'd fire her for her hatchet face.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (v0R5T)

67 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (w54sG)

68 A media friend of mine thinks the CBS CECOT story is totally a rock star event.
I provided him some insights.
Nothing heard since.
Oh well.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (2WIwB)

69
Related, I Think:

Have you heard Dead Internet Theory?

tl,dr: The Internet is 75% bots arguing with bots.

In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)

70 Washington Post has a gotten themselves into a huge mess by trying to slowly move into the "middle", whatever that is. Everyone on the Left is beginning to hate them, and is cancelling their subscriptions; but everyone on the right already did that long ago, and they haven't done anything at all that would bring any of that group back as subscribers.

All that they've done is to make both sides hate them. Not much of a commercial future in that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (uWKK8)

71 Aired in Canada? I'll the rapidly dwindling native born frost backs are eating their frozen little hearts out.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (wBaIH)

72 I miss pollock jokes."

I'm not a big fan of his paintings but I can't recall any jokes about him.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (KDPiq)

73 Would a little armor plating slow the battleships that much?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (5DEFi)

74 California: no plastic, just paper.
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (YlWIZ)

Because killing trees is much better than recycling plastic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

75 DO IT! DO IT NOW!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

I say it better!

Posted by: AH-NOLD at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)

76 Jimmy Kibble is a nasty, angry fatman and I can't understand why anything but a starving canine would take interest in his smelly presence.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (nljXp)

77 ......................................
youtu.be/4Qqendp1kLE

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (sAmhv)

Never gets old.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

78 I yearn for the days when gummi bears looked like bears instead of just random blobs.

Have they made them smaller? maybe that's the problem, but I am just not seeing bear in these things.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (jNFIZ)

79 "The Internet is 75% bots arguing with bots."

Is there a site where bots are doing stand-up comedy for bots? I might tune in once for that.

Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (GHIyr)

80 LOL. When I grew up, we had micks, spics, dagos, and a few kikes. But we all got along okay. Everyone understood the rules of the culture.

I don't want to live in a multi-cultural society. I want to live in my society.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (qFwJc)

81
Most Youtube accounts are fake, I can tell you that. I mean fake Google-created accounts, too.

Did you ever wonder how a channel like NBC's official SNL on Youtube can have tens of millions of supposed "subscribers" and get a few million views for their SNL skits that NO ONE watches on Television?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (TWzjC)

82 Redwoods for grocery bags.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (5DEFi)

83 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (uWKK

I don't reflexively hate them with this attempt and if they became a balanced newspaper I would definitely welcome it. I don't need an echo chamber either.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (KDPiq)

84 Nina Jankowicz
Pollack?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (5DEFi)

Ukrainian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)

85 The link goes to a bootleg of the 60 Minutes El Salvador prison propaganda piece. My first impression is it is a breathless bit of Orange Man Bad propaganda masquerading at serious journalism. Again. Endlessly. The primary audience for this, it seems, are Daily Kos commenters who are always on the prowl for a story that allows them howl "the walls are really closing in this time" on President Trump. For the rest of us, after a decade of this crap, it is tedious. The amusing factor is always endless in a Charlie Brown getting duped into kicking the football manner.

https://is.gd/nl3dXy

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (9iTu9)

86 69
Related, I Think:

Have you heard Dead Internet Theory?

tl,dr: The Internet is 75% bots arguing with bots.

In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)

The Internet is not real life.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (HFrEr)

87 Taylor Lorenz thinks this is unacceptable.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (IifOV)

I would bet she does not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

88 80 LOL. When I grew up, we had micks, spics, dagos, and a few kikes. But we all got along okay. Everyone understood the rules of the culture.

I don't want to live in a multi-cultural society. I want to live in my society.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (qFwJc)

Beaners! Taco Benders! Red Dots!

Posted by: Cheech Marin at December 23, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK8)

89
No, really, I'm filled up. And Christmas is just a day away!

Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (YAFrp)

90 In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)
----
I can believe it.

Something like 80% of all email is nothing more than automated spam.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (ESVrU)

91 Dear Democrat Donors,
Listen, I can keep talking, or if I had some dough I could have a bitch on my dick and straw up my nose and I would be too busy to talk.

Your choice.

Posted by: Hunter at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (jNFIZ)

92 In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)

How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (rbvCR)

93 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (w54sG)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

94 I am going back to watch "South Pacific." When Emille mention Marcel Proust I thought "What? The guy is a fag and an atheist?"

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (qFwJc)

95
Also...

the old jewish princess cuck Howard Stern, who looks like a no old ugly dyke wearing a wig, just got another 3 Years from Sirius.

He has No audience.

But they paid him. Why?
Because "Some People" have an interest in keeping his shit going. He's an "influencer." An influencer of bots, yes, but he moves the needle for "stories."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (TWzjC)

96 I miss pollock jokes.

Posted by: Boss Moss
......

He's no match for Hunter Biden, Artiste.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (v0R5T)

97 And of course Megyn Kelly attacks the Jew (Bari Weiss), even when it means siding with the anti-Trump reporter

Posted by: ZH Cohen at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (53ZQd)

98 Four and a half hours of fancy fingerpickin:
youtube.com/watch?v=YYYIbqWQ8U8

Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (GHIyr)

99
How come all these woke journalists stories are 'SHE deceptively edited...' 'HER claims were found to be lies' , 'SHE alleges the White House...'

Seems to be a common thread .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (KDPiq)

I think it has something to do with this joke from "As Good as it Gets":

'How do you write women so well?"

"I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability."

Ackshewallee, I think it's a weird extension in these ladies' minds of the "Don't Hit a Girl" Rule.

It's like a Get Out of Jail Free Card for General Obnoxiousness.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (iJfKG)

100 What is going to happen to all these DEI hires if and when the DEI system collapses?
Their jobs, reputations and lavish lifestyles all depend entirely on DEI. Without it many are not fit to deliver newspapers much less write for them.

It will be interesting to watch what becomes of them. I assume many will become straight political operatives. A few, I'm sure, will transition into wildly popular conservative commentators -- wherever the money is available for someone with their meager talets.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (0MjtC)

101 Surely you can't be serious?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (5DEFi)

102 "The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."

---

So did Congress when they wrote the laws

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (PWcY+)

103 I can believe it.

Something like 80% of all email is nothing more than automated spam.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (ESVrU)

I'll never forget the ass chewing I got for daring to suggest to a manager that email wasn't a real time communication tool and should never be treated as such in the world of business. A lost email should NEVER be tied to a time sensitive thing such as freight deadlines.

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

104
See?

"battleships" is the new "ballroom"

Next week, the Internet bots will tell us what the new fake outrage is.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (TWzjC)

105 Dadgummit........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

106 I think you can take someone seriously when they say they'll shut down illegal crossings at the border and they do so within a few weeks of getting into office when everyone in the establishment was screaming that it couldn't be done.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Dv3i1)

107 Surely you can't be serious?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (5DEFi)

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (Zz0t1)

108
What happened to epstein?
What happened to groceries?

Eggstein failed. Need new fake outrage hoax.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (TWzjC)

109 What is going to happen to all these DEI hires if and when the DEI system collapses?
Posted by: 29Victor at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (0MjtC)

Did you see the DC Chief of Police the other day screaming about what was in her Bible?
that's what will become of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (uWKK8)

110 CBS employees, don't let tje door hit you in the ass on the way out

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (Ia/+0)

111 ‘ Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"

Not a smart idea if you don’t want to risk unemployment benefits, but these people are DEI mudbrains so ….

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (u2s7M)

112 Cheap eggs, cheap gas. The Left weeps.

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:08 PM (pDt9x)

113 I'll never forget the ass chewing I got for daring to suggest to a manager that email wasn't a real time communication tool and should never be treated as such in the world of business. A lost email should NEVER be tied to a time sensitive thing such as freight deadlines.
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)
---
I don't consider text messages to be real-time communication, either. I'll respond when I get around to it. I might not even see it until hours after it was delivered.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:08 PM (ESVrU)

114 Deport the journos to El Salvador

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (6U1c2)

115 However, there's more to the story. DeSantis actually offered a detailed explanation for Publix's involvement in vaccinating Floridians. These exculpatory remarks were left on the cutting room floor.

--------------

"Narrative Engineers" indeed.

OUT: Star Chambers.
IN: Tar Chambers.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (jvn5r)

116 100
I'm against pornography. I think it's bad for the user and bad for the people involved making it. We would be a healthier society if porn consisted of a few crude drawings in men's rooms.

That said, I think a solution that could help everybody would be if all porn in the future were made by former presstitutes, Dim politicians and other DEI failures. It would help some people break their porn addictions, and when these people OD, commit suicide or die from AIDs, we wouldn't feel empathy for people who made really shitty life choices.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (UdiE9)

117 Epcot, El Salvador.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (5DEFi)

118 "The Internet is not real life."

Memory of real life without internet is getting hazy. I remember it had something to do with sustained attention span. *shudder* how ghastly that must have been.

Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (GHIyr)

119 Remember the vid posted here not long ago of the Tranny employee leading the march to the HR director's office? Where was that ?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (KDPiq)

120 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (w54sG)

Beats having a dementia ridden Biden controlled by a cabal that hates America and who won through a fraudulent election.

The things leftists don't understand and conservatives do, is that we take Trump seriously not literally. You folks take him literally but not seriously so it's freak out time for you when Trump is engaging in hyperbole.

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (8Xy/A)

121 What, predicting the url of the next comment? I wonder if Elric has "The Blade is sharp!" comments posted months in advance on yet-to-exist threads on this site.

Posted by: the lower depths

To be honest I thought Pixy had plugged that hole years ago. Been a while since I tried...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (OUMaO)
——-

[makes ‘shushing’ gesture]

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (u2s7M)

122
The camps the left wants to build after the 2028 election will be for Zionists, not Jews

Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (YAFrp)

123 bari should do a story about how netanyahu's last name is not really Netanyahu, he chaged it.

Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (fn4/u)

124 I told my boss "Why should I bother reading your emails when you never read mine?"
He was not impressed.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (v0R5T)

125 I think the WP is trying to find that "perfect number" of Leftist BS where, as the great Louie DePalma said:

"But there is a figure, an exact figure, one that's big enough so that he'll go... (shudders)
But not so big that he won't say, "Well!""

They are trying to optimize their impact by broadening the number of people who tolerate their lies.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (jNFIZ)

126 I don't consider text messages to be real-time communication, either. I'll respond when I get around to it. I might not even see it until hours after it was delivered.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:08 PM (ESVrU)

A bud dated a girl for short time. She was texting him one day, knowing he was out with his son at a sports bar watching sportsball. He then saw some acquaintances as well and was chatting with them. He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advise him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

127 Soothsayer, I used to do a form of "research" that meant I got to sit in a cubical and go through multiple databases to determine data on specific client files. I realized early on (2007?) that the databases were no real proxy for reality, since I could almost chart which ones depended on others for their information, and how to check if that information was correct.
I began to consider where I would have to drop bad information so it would propagate throughout the entire structure.

I also realized my cow-orkers didn't care and would just use the easiest information available, so continuing the corruption of the databases into ours.
I think this is a model of the Dead Internet, no one cares, and no one takes the time to verify.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (rbvCR)

128 Earliest porn? I remember seeing some from Pompeii that I recall. Not in person.

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

129

AJJ > ASS

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (Zz0t1)

130 That said, I think a solution that could help everybody would be if all porn in the future were made by former presstitutes, Dim politicians and other DEI failures. It would help some people break their porn addictions, and when these people OD, commit suicide or die from AIDs, we wouldn't feel empathy for people who made really shitty life choices.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (UdiE9)

Tell me you're not thinking of Helen Thomas.

You're thinking of Helen Thomas, aren't you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (uWKK8)

131 We would be a healthier society if porn consisted of a few crude drawings in men's rooms.

867-5309

Posted by: J. Random Moron at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (0sNs1)

132 Earliest porn? I remember seeing some from Pompeii that I recall. Not in person.
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

They've been filming people banging since there was film.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

133 Prediction for next year. The propaganda ministries collapse in a heep with new owners firing a lot of leftists who are useless. Violence breaks out in blue states between different factions fighting for money and power. The economy continues to hum along. Much popcorn is needed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (2vrAX)

134 I believe that they feel they can pull an internal resistance campaign to oust Bari, just like they always do. They will be patient and just sabotage everything. This has always worked for them. It's how they got into these positions in the first place through the gramscian march. Bari is a part of that whole system.

They have every reason to believe they'll come out on top again. Their whole life experience is an arrow pointing in one direction to victory, always advancing, infecting, devouring civilization.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (3uBP9)

135 This kerfluffle has been created by Leftist Journalists (BIRM) working to perpetuate the myth peddled by Leftist Journalists that Leftist Journalists are the ultimate truth-tellers and the ultimate, un-biased, judges of what is right, proper, normal, moral, and just! Along with being the final judges of what behaviors and actions are and are not racist and all other evil -ists!

Therefore Leftist Journalists insist, nay demand, that no one, least of all the employers and bosses of Leftist Journalists, has the moral authority to decide that any piece of finished work by a Leftist Journalist should not be transmitted to the rubes.

Nice work if you can get it. For too long now.

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (5rh/l)

136 I don't care if the door DOES hit them in the ass on the way out.

Posted by: Person who gave up newspapers long ago at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (SzjyL)

137
That's another thing!

Android/Google is hell-bent on forcing you to be "alerted" on your phone to ALL you garbage emails the INSTANT received.

Why?

Why is it important for Apple/Google to "alert" us immediately for texts, emails, tweets, Youtube comment responses, the fucking Weather, etc.?

Because they want you to be a Slave to Media and "news" and products. Must Consoom Product. Must "hate" _______.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (TWzjC)

138 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Did he know she was seeing a therapist when he started dating her? You need to have a sit down talk with your bud.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (KDPiq)

139 128 Earliest porn? I remember seeing some from Pompeii that I recall. Not in person.
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Some people who were not impressed with the female pharaoh Hatshepsut made a crude drawing of her in a cave above her temple. That's several thousand years before Pompeii. Not sure if the "Venus of Willendorf" type prehistoric figures count as porn or as some shamanistic fertility objects.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (UdiE9)

140 "We would be a healthier society if porn consisted of a few crude drawings in men's rooms."

Have Banksy do it. Class it up a little.

Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (GHIyr)

141 I only log in to Kroger . Com.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (5DEFi)

142
Banana Dream's Big Boom Boom >>>>> The Washington Post cuts more opinion columnists.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (QVmho)

143 96 I miss pollock jokes.

Posted by: Boss Moss

--

"The Firm" was a joke. "Jeremiah Johnson" was great, though.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (NYInA)

144 >>>The Internet is 75% bots arguing with bots.

In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)

>The other 25% is lawyers looking to file suit for some slight to their client's untoward reputation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (nljXp)

145
I miss pollock jokes.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I cod not handle the pollock jokes.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (QVmho)

146 Porn used to be underground and then Deep Throat and Debbie Does Dallas made it mainstream.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (KDPiq)

147
Did he know she was seeing a therapist when he started dating her? You need to have a sit down talk with your bud.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (KDPiq)

I don't guess so. They were only together a couple weeks.

I think he's learned lessons in being a single dude in his 50's having to do the dating thing again.

Wayyyyy too many bishes be cray in the older adult dating scene.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (Zz0t1)

148
I realized early on (2007?) that the databases were no real proxy for reality, since I could almost chart which ones depended on others for their information, and how to check if that information was correct.

Posted by: Kindltot

You saw it almost 20 years ago.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (TWzjC)

149 Deceptive editing has always been 60 Minutes.
I was a duped young Democrat 50 years ago when they aired a report for which I had deep personal knowledge, turning it upside down. The deceptive edits were clear to see. I quit watching the "show" until a few years later when a story was advertised I had interest in, and the same lying method was repeated.

Sexaginta minuta delenda est!

Posted by: Hal Dall at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (SBJWI)

150 What is going to happen to all these DEI hires if and when the DEI system collapses? Posted by: 29Victor

Did you see the DC Chief of Police the other day screaming about what was in her Bible? that's what will become of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo

What happens? They will become multi level marketing wizards, Uber/Lyft drivers, Starbucks baristas, or the always favorite, some dept. of human services case workers who have uncanny ability to ignore child abuse. That and getting naked on Only Fans.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (9iTu9)

151 In mitigation, he is retarded.

PATHETIC: Tim Walz rails against ICE raids in MN by accusing the Trump admin of “WHITE SUPREMACY!"

“This is what happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy. When you hear the Vice President of the United States talk about now, white people don't have to apologize for being white."

"That's never happened once in my whole damn life!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (L/fGl)

152 Yeah, really sucks when some bitch makes up shit you never said and refuses to correct the record and apologize

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (Sv5iI)

153 Vanills Banana Split.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (5DEFi)

154 Because they want you to be a Slave to Media and "news" and products. Must Consoom Product. Must "hate" _______.
Posted by: Soothsayer
...........................
I'm reminded of the movie 'They Live!'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (sAmhv)

155 Trump showed the way by suing 60 Minutes for the Kumswala kerfuffle. EVERYONE should sue the media for the lies they pedal.

*queues up Gary Oldman*

EVERYYYYYYOOONNNEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Whorehouses used to be ubiquitous prior to 1950.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (KDPiq)

157
He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advise him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together.
Posted by: Sponge

He dodged a bullet there, didn't he.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (QVmho)

158
"That's never happened once in my whole damn life!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (L/fGl)

The f*ck it hasn't, you lying piece of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)

159 I want to thank the Supreme Court from Trump establishing Law and Order in Shit-Cago.

Gang Bangers, Rapists, Drug Dealers, Molesters, Thieves, and Criminals need to make a fair Wage/Living also.

So, three cheers to the Supreme Court stopping the 'Racist Dictator" Trump. And in return I will be cutting the Police Force by 30% and raising taxes to help the Illegal Persons of color being mistreated by the 666 Trump Creature...

Posted by: Gov "Fat Boy" Pretzel of Illness-Nois at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (J9q9v)

160 Yes, Anonosaurus, there is a Santa Claus.

They’re having a really bad day at the Washington Post.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (L/fGl)

161
Democrats pretend "Be Better, White People" never happened.

Democrats pretend "Dear White People..." never existed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (TWzjC)

162
He dodged a bullet there, didn't he.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (QVmho)

Yes. It was a bit of a shame, tho. She was pretty.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (Zz0t1)

163 128 Earliest porn? I remember seeing some from Pompeii that I recall. Not in person.

Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

Venus of Willendorf

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (ynpvh)

164 There's nothing crude about my restroom etchings.

Posted by: The Rembrandt of Dicks at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (3KbZ6)

165 Earliest porn:
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp

A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.

Challenging, I will admit.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (jNFIZ)

166 I'll lick your donut, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Ariana G. at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (0sNs1)

167 There's nekkid people on Only Fans?
Are they all fat, tattooed and pierced?
Why wasn't I informed of this?

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (v0R5T)

168
I'm reminded of the movie 'They Live!'.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Welcome to Frogtown.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (TWzjC)

169 Their job is to tell their audience what they want to hear, not tell the truth. One could say the same about a number of outlets on the other side of the spectrum, as well. If you're in deep enough, you'll accept anything, which describes most Leftists. Not so much on the other side, but still way too many.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (MZ+PY)

170 CBS and the Washington Post are dogshit. No one watches or reads them except old fart libs. Once they die off, that's that.

Posted by: Death at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (R/m4+)

171 Earliest porn:
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp

A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.
......

FUPA

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

172 He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advise him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together.
Posted by: Sponge

I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!

Posted by: Respond or this bunny gets it at December 23, 2025 05:21 PM (BIIIL)

173
lulz...

The White House livestream right now:

Lo-fi Criminal Illegal Alien Naughty List

https://is.gd/OiPAUa

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (TWzjC)

174 164 There's nothing crude about my restroom etchings.
Posted by: The Rembrandt of Dicks at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (3KbZ6)

Fingerpaintings, amirite?

Posted by: Roy at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (BZF07)

175 There's nothing wrong with being white.

There's nothing wrong with white women dating white men.

There's nothing wrong with not wanting to date a different race.

Being a leftist is the most awful, miserable mindset ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)

176 Earliest porn:
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp
A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.

Looks like Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Big Green Dildo at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (R/m4+)

177 Wait, am I reading this wrong? Bari Weis claimed she pulled the hit piece because it covered no new ground? Not because of unethical practices like lying about "no comments"?

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)

178 Trump XO stomps through environmental nonsense.

The lockouts in western states generally began under Clinton - it was the zenith of Sierra Club power. Feinstein was mixed up in it as well - JFKjr was involved in a venture capital scheme (BrightSource) to run transmission lines across the Mojave. Feinstein got pissed off because Jr. was muscling in on her patronage.

The 217-mile, 500-kV electrical line will connect Ely, Nevada to Nephi, Utah.

https://x.com/BasinRange/status/2002669908518474234

Posted by: 13times at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (fnZRl)

179 BREAKING: Biden's presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting.

The new proposed location for the Biden Presidential Library is the Titanic Wreckage. It has been said that this way at least some people will visit while viewing the Titanic Wreckage which mirrors Biden's Endless 4 years of damage and bilge to the Free World.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (J9q9v)

180 >>>He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advise him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together.
Posted by: Sponge

He dodged a bullet there, didn't he.

Posted by: BifBewalski

>Splendid. I forget my phone is in the truck on the charger, overnight, regularly.

Ballbuster, controlfreak puppetmasters are not something I need in my life.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (nljXp)

181 There is a review of the new Anaconda movie in the NY Post. There's an actress in the movie named Daniela Melchior from Portugal. Very pretty. I looked her up and found out she suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, ADD and anxiety. I didn't need to know any of that. Do all younger people suffer from anxiety

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (2vrAX)

182 “This is what happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy. When you hear the Vice President of the United States talk about now, white people don't have to apologize for being white."

This $hit about white people having to *apologize* for the color of the skin they were born in is getting tiresome. But it is all they have left apparently.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (0N4FZ)

183 When you hear the Vice President of the United States talk about now, white people don't have to apologize for being white."

"That's never happened once in my whole damn life!"
_____

If he means that a vice president saying that, I guess he's right, it hasn't been said before. But when Affirmative Action/DEI is so out of control that (formerly) serious publishers are putting out opinion that it's ok to kill whitey, then it is past time to say something.

If he means that whitey has always apologized for being white, at least since he was born, then he would have had to have been born, what, around St. George Floyd's suicide/martyrdom?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 05:25 PM (Dv3i1)

184 Even the President's Official residence is RACIIIIIIIIIIIST !!!

IT IS NAMED THE "WHITE HOUSE" !!!!!!!

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 05:25 PM (J9q9v)

185 177 Wait, am I reading this wrong? Bari Weis claimed she pulled the hit piece because it covered no new ground? Not because of unethical practices like lying about "no comments"?
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)

Possibly they didn't tell her that part.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:26 PM (MZ+PY)

186
The Washington state floods are a perfect illustration of Internet bullshit.

People were surprised to learn about the floods and see the shocking images DAYS AFTER they occurred -- why didn't the "News" make this a big story.

Because Trumpstein files! And Trump said mean things about a meathead celery.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:27 PM (TWzjC)

187 Wait, am I reading this wrong? Bari Weis claimed she pulled the hit piece because it covered no new ground? Not because of unethical practices like lying about "no comments"?
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)

No, that's about right.

The media, no matter who's running it, is a liberal shithole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)

188 128 Earliest porn? I remember seeing some from Pompeii that I recall. Not in person.
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

------

Maybe the "goddess" figurines of the Gravettian culture, about 24,000 years ago (4000 years ago if you are YEC).

https://share.google/XDHTjLRWN25gfRvBx

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (Vh9CX)

189 Earliest porn:
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp
A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.
Looks like Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Big Green Dildo

I dig it.

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (nhCoE)

190
The point is: a tweet about meathead was more to the "News" than massive floods.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (TWzjC)

191
Ballbuster, controlfreak puppetmasters are not something I need in my life.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (nljXp)

He said "I'm too old for such bullshit."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (Zz0t1)

192 184 Even the President's Official residence is RACIIIIIIIIIIIST !!!

IT IS NAMED THE "WHITE HOUSE" !!!!!!!

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 05:25 PM (J9q9v)

Stoopid CRACKER SHACK be oppressing peeps.

Posted by: human shake weight at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (c+RcG)

193
Trump Admin LOWERED drug prices substantially.

The fake "news" yawned. But eggstein!!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (TWzjC)

194 Maybe the "goddess" figurines of the Gravettian culture, about 24,000 years ago (4000 years ago if you are YEC).

https://share.google/XDHTjLRWN25gfRvBx

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (Vh9CX)

It's not really porn if it's sculptures from before there was really clothing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:29 PM (Zz0t1)

195 What is going to happen to all these DEI hires if and when the DEI system collapses? Posted by: 29Victor

Did you see the DC Chief of Police the other day screaming about what was in her Bible? that's what will become of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=========

Also, it appears the AWFL President of Brown University and likely other white pipo in Providence are setting-up the DEI-hire Brown U Chief of Campus Police to be the fall-guy for the lack of security that allowed the shooter into the classroom 10 days ago. In case you missed it, the Chief is a black man. You may not know this because he was never allowed to present info and be questioned by the press while the shooter was at-large.

At the press conference announcing the shooter's ID and discovery of his body, the DEI-hire chief finally appeared on camera. He took a victory lap, of course. Yesterday he was put on paid leave. Unless he proclaims he is now a black woman, he may be sacrificed by the University and Providence City nomenklatura to get the press and parents of students off their backs.

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:29 PM (5rh/l)

196 Tell me you're not thinking of Helen Thomas.

You're thinking of Helen Thomas, aren't you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (uWKK

Well, she's dead. But Andrea Mitchell isn't! And a couple of other sourpusses whose names I can't recall. They should put you right off porn, and they'd be appropriately rewarded for all of their lies.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (zYpTz)

197 Wait, am I reading this wrong? Bari Weis claimed she pulled the hit piece because it covered no new ground? Not because of unethical practices like lying about "no comments"?
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
——-

I think that was Bari’s response to the outcry that she was protecting Trump, that the story was already out there. I think the reason for yanking the story was that she said it needed more research/sourcing. I think.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (u2s7M)

198 LOL. When I grew up, we had micks, spics, dagos, and a few kikes. But we all got along okay. Everyone understood the rules of the culture.

I don't want to live in a multi-cultural society. I want to live in my society.

Posted by: no one at December

Spooks, spics, spazzes and booger eating morons.

Bad News Bears

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (FxH7T)

199 Their job is to tell their audience what they want to hear, not tell the truth. One could say the same about a number of outlets on the other side of the spectrum, as well. If you're in deep enough, you'll accept anything, which describes most Leftists. Not so much on the other side, but still way too many.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (MZ+PY)

IT'S OUR JOB TO TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK!!!!

- - - - Joe Scarborough's Hat

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

200 Now, that's just mean.

https://is.gd/FGEE6U

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (L/fGl)

201
I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs crawl out of the woodwork.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (TWzjC)

202 A slight bit of good news:

First Lady's follow up with the OB about her surgery went well and she's cleared from any restrictions.

She's still feeling dizzy, however, so there's still restrictions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (Zz0t1)

203 So now 'acting white' is not only an insult blacks use against other blacks it is now an insult whites libs use against all whites.

You can't make this shit up.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:32 PM (KDPiq)

204 Now, that's just mean.

https://is.gd/FGEE6U
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (L/fGl)

HA! Cruel AND unusual.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:32 PM (Zz0t1)

205 It might come as a surprise to the liberals that most normal people approve deportation of ILLEGAL aliens.

It is not the olden days of working mirants coming and going after crops are picked. It is the Biden time (or, if we want to get real, GWB wanting open borders with Mexico and Canada) of rapists, thieves and moochers. GET THEM OUT! I am thrilled Trump is doing this!

I have NO sympathy, if that's what they are going for, when they are sent to El Salvador. If there was a gofundme for this I'd contribute.

I hope Somolians are next along with the Turban Cobra in Congress. Get out!

Back to scheduled programming of me combining a ton of stuff I could have done weeks ago into today. I haven't changed one bit since college and term papers. It will be done. Thus sayeth, thus it shall be. It's how I roll, baybee.

Merry Christmas Eve Eve to all Morons and 'ettes!!!

I started drinking again at 3:30! The gifts may look rather wonky before I am done. The baby won't care as she's oblivious. The other two kids won't care because they rip gifts open like chimps

Listening to an entire album of Toto super loud, then Celtic Christmas music to soothe me while I make cookies. It's all good!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 05:32 PM (WONhk)

206 Seems too coincidental

@MyLordBebo
🇺🇸 The blackout text in Epstein's documents turned out to be easily readable.

In some files of the scandalous financier's case, you can read everything that the US Department of Justice tried to obscure, journalists noticed. If you simply select the "censored" blocks, the text is copied from them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (mlg/3)

207 Do all younger people suffer from anxiety

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (2vrAX)

Yes. But if you are constantly told you are a hateful pox on society if you are white, or that you need mutilating surgery to make yourself feel better, or that you should cut off all contact with people who love you, especially so you can properly fit in with "good society", I imagine that kids feel stressed and not know how to handle it. Especially if they do these things in secret, at school, with teachers who tell them to not ever speak a word of it to their parents. It's child abuse and it affects kids long after that actual abuse stops.

Posted by: moki at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (wLjpr)

208 You know what I like most about these wordsmith genius journalists?

They are already being replaced at a faster and faster clip by AI.

And they are such keen intellects, sharp wits and persuasive writers that--even as they can see AI killing their livelihood--there attacks are ... pathetic.

Like, they just crib old enviro-catastrophe bits and slap an "AI will cause this!" coat of paint on it.
Droughts! Electrical shortages! Endangered species disruption!

LOLGF.

Learn to starve under a bridge, like a good hobo.
Jen Rubin's podcast is gonna launch any day now, maybe she'll spare you an episode ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (HXT0k)

209 Spooks, spics, spazzes and booger eating morons.

Bad News Bears
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (FxH7T)

Heh. I find it funny, the billion dollar franchise Chitcago Bears are demanding tax $$$ for a new stadium from the bankrupt, overtaxed state of Illinois and the state is telling them to pound sand.

Indiana is looking at how to get it done, in the northwestern part of the state.

The Chicago Bears would be moved to the shithole that is Gary, Indiana as a possible alternative.

BWWWWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (Zz0t1)

210 177 Wait, am I reading this wrong? Bari Weis claimed she pulled the hit piece because it covered no new ground? Not because of unethical practices like lying about "no comments"?
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)

It would bring nothing new. Everyone already knows our reporters are lying Marxist tools who can't tell boys from girls and therefore have zero chance of stumbling across the truth even accidentally.

Posted by: Bari who what where when Weiss at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (pIfcn)

211 197 Wait, am I reading this wrong? Bari Weis claimed she pulled the hit piece because it covered no new ground? Not because of unethical practices like lying about "no comments"?
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
——-

I think that was Bari’s response to the outcry that she was protecting Trump, that the story was already out there. I think the reason for yanking the story was that she said it needed more research/sourcing. I think.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (u2s7M)

My guess is that Bari not only thought the hit piece didn't advance the story, to her it would send the story on an unjustified and needless H@te Raycisst Trump path. She would never to say that in public. To avoid being called a Trump Lackey.

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (5rh/l)

212 The early porn character has a Nadler gunt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (2vrAX)

213 Bari pulled the story because Israel. Israel is the reason for most things. Put America First, Bari!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (9ipOP)

214
That's good, Sponge.
Better than bad news.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (TWzjC)

215 The Gary Bears.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (5DEFi)

216 Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:29 PM (5rh/l

And what was the ethnicity of the janitor who kept reporting the shooter hanging around? He deserves some credit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (8Xy/A)

217 The Gary Bears.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (5DEFi)

Which will turn into The Scary Bears

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (KDPiq)

218 I'm steadily losing any remainder of faith I might've had in my government knowing that "Maryland Man" is STILL HERE.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)

219 I'm in SW FL and take issue with Publix being called "popular." They are ubiquitous. They are predatory. Those that would call them "popular" are the same that say "seems nice."

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (KiBMU)

220 Hong Kong Phooey?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (5DEFi)

221 That's good, Sponge.
Better than bad news.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (TWzjC)

Agreed. I've been viewing most things in the positive as a silver lining, lately.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)

222 216 Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:29 PM (5rh/l

And what was the ethnicity of the janitor who kept reporting the shooter hanging around? He deserves some credit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (8Xy/A)

Good question. I don't know.

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (5rh/l)

223 Hong Kong Phooey?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (5DEFi)

Greatness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:38 PM (Zz0t1)

224 jWHOREnalists smacked up again

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 05:38 PM (XLfSN)

225
And what was the ethnicity of the janitor who kept reporting the shooter hanging around? He deserves some credit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (8Xy/A)

Custodial-American.

Racist.

Posted by: EEOC Commenter at December 23, 2025 05:38 PM (NI+sF)

226 Heh. I find it funny, the billion dollar franchise Chitcago Bears are demanding tax $$$ for a new stadium from the bankrupt, overtaxed state of Illinois and the state is telling them to pound sand.
----

I *really* love sports, and I love capitalism, and yet I've reached the point where I believe the taxpayers should NEVER be on the hook for even a single dollar of stadium building and other such sports-related nonsense. In Oklahoma City, they're already on the hook for giving the Thunder a new stadium, even though I've been to a couple of sports events and a half-dozen concerts in the current arena and the current facility is *really, really, nice* and not in need of replacement. These schemes (at their best) are just construction jobs for the friends of the teams and friends of the local politicians. The taxpayers deserve better representation.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 05:39 PM (TN0g+)

227 The Washington state floods are a perfect illustration of Internet bullshit. People were surprised to learn about the floods and see the shocking images DAYS AFTER they occurred -- why didn't the "News" make this a big story. Because Trumpstein files! And Trump said mean things about a meathead celery.
Posted by: Soothsayer

About once a decade weather events line up so the rivers from Mt Vernon, WA to Chehalis, WA flood western Washington State. This has been going on for centuries and it's become a bigger problem over the years for two reasons. The number of people living along these rivers and in the flood plain has exploded over the years. Secondly, the media nitwits, steeped in climate propaganda, report the latest weather event as unsubstantiated proof that the modern technological world must be banned.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:40 PM (9iTu9)

228 "He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advise him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together."

I've known self-centered pricks like that. I craft alternate realities for a living so my head is always in the clouds, sometimes I dissappear for days. Then some jackass that you would've taken a bullet for wants to ditch your friendship because you didn't return a phonecall or were 15 mins late to their party. I just tell them "sorry, death in the family, goodbye and good luck"

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:40 PM (Sv5iI)

229 Posted by: M. Gaga at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (KiBMU)

Sounds like how I feel about HEB except I don't think they are predatory or not popular.

So I guess I really don't feel the same. I just don't like them.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (KDPiq)

230 Person experiencing custodianness.

Posted by: Please stay with the tour at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (SzjyL)

231 218 I'm steadily losing any remainder of faith I might've had in my government knowing that "Maryland Man" is STILL HERE.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)

I have still seen nothing to dissuade me from my contention that Maryland Man will be with us through the election. He's just too useful.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (pIfcn)

232
I *really* love sports, and I love capitalism, and yet I've reached the point where I believe the taxpayers should NEVER be on the hook for even a single dollar of stadium building and other such sports-related nonsense. In Oklahoma City, they're already on the hook for giving the Thunder a new stadium, even though I've been to a couple of sports events and a half-dozen concerts in the current arena and the current facility is *really, really, nice* and not in need of replacement. These schemes (at their best) are just construction jobs for the friends of the teams and friends of the local politicians. The taxpayers deserve better representation.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 05:39 PM (TN0g+)

I agree with you 100%.

Team owners are usually multimillionaires if not billionaires that would EASILY be able to secure funding for such projects and not bilk the taxpayer one f*cking dime.

But no.......I guess the old adage "they're billionaires for a reason" rings true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM (Zz0t1)

233 I am proud to be a WASP !!!!!!!!!!!

WHITE ANGLO SAXON PROTESTANT!!!!

If you do not like it............ Too Bad Low-T Boy !!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM (38587)

234 Sounds like how I feel about HEB except I don't think they are predatory or not popular.

So I guess I really don't feel the same. I just don't like them.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (KDPiq)

I love me some HEB. There's just nothing close, so I don't get there very often. If/when we move, they'll be even further away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:43 PM (Zz0t1)

235 TRUTH DIES IN DARKNESS: WASHINGTON POST REFUSES TO CORRECT FAKE HERITAGE QUOTES

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WASHINGTON POST: “This weekend, most of our staff, from our legal and economic centers, are departing immediately. We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes.”

KEVIN ROBERTS: “This weekend, additional staff, from our legal and economic centers, are departing immediately. We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes.”

WASHINGTON POST: “Heritage has always been home to voices within the conservative movement, but alignment on mission and loyalty to senior leadership are nonnegotiable.”

KEVIN ROBERTS: “Heritage has always been a home for many voices within the conservative movement—but alignment on mission and loyalty to the institution and colleagues are non-negotiable.”

Like Hunter, they just pull shit out of their asses to paint their bullshit canvases ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 05:43 PM (Ww2Qx)

236 Do all younger people suffer from anxiety

Posted by: Smell the Glove

You seen the bullshit that makes up their early lives? I'd be more shocked if they DIDN'T...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 05:44 PM (OUMaO)

237 I am proud to be a WASP !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM (38587)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Blackie Lawless at December 23, 2025 05:44 PM (Zz0t1)

238 CBS Propagandists remind me of the silly crew over at Vogue, who managed to harass the HR head until they all got themselves fired. One distinguishing factor at Vogue was the LGBTQuerty guy leading the harangue; is there a flaming gay or trans person involved with the Sharon story? If there is, the parallel would be complete!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (SBi1w)

239 I'm quite proud to be a honky

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (2vrAX)

240 I love me some Aldi.

Posted by: So it's a grocery thread now? at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (SzjyL)

241 "I think that was Bari’s response to the outcry that she was protecting Trump, that the story was already out there. I think the reason for yanking the story was that she said it needed more research/sourcing. I think."
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (u2s7M)

Ah. There was nuance and complexity. Imagine that. Thanks

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (Sv5iI)

242 I like HEB. But I hope it burns down. All of them. Because they don't stock the HEB brand avocado flavored "doritos" anymore, and I am taking it very personally.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 23, 2025 05:46 PM (QzM4s)

243 The blackout text in Epstein's documents turned out to be easily readable.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (mlg/3)

Almost like someone wanted them seen.

Or someone didn't know where the secret redaction button on the computer was.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:46 PM (MZ+PY)

244 I love me some Aldi.
Posted by: So it's a grocery thread now? at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (SzjyL)

Got their spiral cut hickory smoked honey ham today. I will throw the glaze packet away, put the ham on the smoker with apple wood for a couple hours Christmas Day and will feast on it that afternoon.

Damn good stuff.

Posted by: Blackie Lawless at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)

245 Hong Kong Phooey?

Posted by: Boss Moss

Number one superstar!

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (OUMaO)

246 Damn.....my brain isn't with it today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)

247 237 I am proud to be a WASP !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM

I am proud to be a LOW-T Guy that is Non-White and kinda like guys....

Posted by: Barry O at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (YnF8s)

248 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:43 PM (Zz0t1)

They don't carry a number of products I want and replace with their own brand which I don't care for.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (KDPiq)

249 So now 'acting white' is not only an insult blacks use against other blacks it is now an insult whites libs use against all whites.

You can't make this shit up.
Posted by: Opinion fact

"Acting white"?
"ACTING White"?!

I ain't fvcking acting.
Idiot. I am white as platinum, ice, and diamonds.
You are the ass trying to pass yourself as something you are not.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (/lPRQ)

250 Many years ago - I guess it was the 70s - there was a Charlie Brown strip where Snoopy insisted on getting his dinner 15 min. earlier every week.

CB figured out that he was trying to scam an extra meal every 96 days. It was classic CB, and classic Snoopy.

I think of that strip whenever Ace puts us on a 1:15 min. schedule. He is trying to squeeze 5 posts into a 6 post day.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (jNFIZ)

251 Years ago when they were funny The Onion had a headline
After all these Years the CIA Realizes It's been using Black Highlighters

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (2vrAX)

252 They don't carry a number of products I want and replace with their own brand which I don't care for.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (KDPiq)

That would do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (Zz0t1)

253 A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.

*mutters about being born in the wrong era*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 05:49 PM (a+4eV)

254 Structuring the piece is going to fall more towards the producer than the "talent." So, while your criticizing of Alfonsi is warranted. It is more so warranted for her constant companion producer, Oriana Zill de Granados.

Granados, also, was right there with Alfonsi on the DeSantis hit piece.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 05:49 PM (dIske)

255 You are the ass trying to pass yourself as something you are not.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (/lPRQ)

This is about me, isn't it.......

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at December 23, 2025 05:49 PM (Zz0t1)

256 Or someone didn't know where the secret redaction button on the computer was.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

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What likely happened is that they were already redacted at some time in the past, and the team in charge of releasing didn't check every document, and every redaction on every document, to see if it was sufficient.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (jNFIZ)

257 I guess it's racist of me to never think about the fact I'm white.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)

258 I guess it's racist of me to never think about the fact I'm white.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)

I think I look better in the summer when I'm tanned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (Zz0t1)

259
There's nothing wrong with not wanting to date a different race.

Being a leftist is the most awful, miserable mindset ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Yup. Ask the Strong, Independent Black Women and their opinion of Black Men dating White chicks in the US or getting a passport to find a Filipino wife.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (y9nCu)

260 My work is in a tizzy again that Bad Orange Man may cancel us. I guess USA Today ran a story about Trump wanting to 'break up' NCAR. A) its the FNM so I'm sure they spun up the story from some random quote about wanting to yank that pot of funding from liberal Boulder Colorado.

anb B) oh it would be a real shame if the sub groups that do actual weather research are separated from the Climate Change modelers, or horrors some of the work is transferred to management by U of OK, or someplace in actual flyover country instead of being left in the peoples Republic of Boulder.

But I don't know that I would move to OK if that comes to pass, I'd maybe just retire early. Might sell this place, seems there are enouch rich folks that real estate here is likely to stay high and move to a cheaper place to live to enjoy retirement but I'm a huge wimp about heat and humidity, if I moved to OK, I'd have to be able to spend most of the summer somewhere else.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (hhkIi)

261 Hilarity in Rhode Island.

A prominent Democrat was caught in a DUI stop and started ranting at the cops. Because she was drunk, she imagined she is black and tried calling the cop a racist. And she mentioned that, in her opinion, he is also a "dick". She may have been yelling it loudly.

Anyway, Rhode Island Democrats....

https://tinyurl.com/2kyc9k27

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 05:52 PM (x0Rg/)

262 "trying to squeeze 5 posts into a 6 post day."

6 post day? No such thing.

Stop trying to make Fetch happen!

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (Sv5iI)

263 I guess it's racist of me to never think about the fact I'm white.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)
====

Like Kamala told me, "and there it is."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (9ipOP)

264
Yup. Ask the Strong, Independent Black Women and their opinion of Black Men dating White chicks in the US or getting a passport to find a Filipino wife.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (y9nCu)

My neighbors are black. Their son, going to a predominantly white school most of his life, lead him to date white girls. His mother was NOT a fan, but was extremely happy he started college at an HBCU. He transferred out after a year. He's now dating a white woman.

She's not happy. I have no issue with that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (Zz0t1)

265 Acting white is simply acting civilized. They called it acting white so they can convice people to not act civilized

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (Dv3i1)

266 Deceptive editing has always been 60 Minutes.
I was a duped young Democrat 50 years ago when they aired a report for which I had deep personal knowledge, turning it upside down. The deceptive edits were clear to see. I quit watching the "show" until a few years later when a story was advertised I had interest in, and the same lying method was repeated.

When I was a kid and Consumer Reports was a popular magazine I thought it was great, and my dad sat me down. He was a TV repairman, so he had the ultimate toolkit. But he also understood TVs and manufacturers. He pointed in the magazine to two televisions that CR had rated very differently and told me that they are the same damn TV, by two different brand names.

I looked at reviewers and ratings very skeptically after that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 05:54 PM (3Amc7)

267
25,000 BP would be even before the last glacial maximum I think. Baby, it's cold outside.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 05:54 PM (w6EFb)

268 The Greeks called it Noble.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:54 PM (5DEFi)

269 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (/lPRQ)

I have a tee shirt with Titanium White on the front.

It's a reference to artist oil paint

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:55 PM (KDPiq)

270 Any Prussian Blue?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:56 PM (5DEFi)

271 A bud dated a girl for short time. She was texting him one day, knowing he was out with his son at a sports bar watching sportsball. He then saw some acquaintances as well and was chatting with them. He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advised him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together.

"her therapist" is the Big Red Flag

Posted by: Chuck C at December 23, 2025 05:56 PM (D0HYP)

272 "What likely happened is that they were already redacted at some time in the past, and the team in charge of releasing didn't check every document, and every redaction on every document, to see if it was sufficient."

Geez. Government ensuring innocent people aren't lynched by the Epstein Mobs seems up there. Like double checking the stove is turned off before you go on vacation? Making sure the power is off before you wire this outlet?

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:58 PM (Sv5iI)

273 The blackout text in Epstein's documents turned out to be easily readable.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (mlg/3)

Almost like someone wanted them seen.

Or someone didn't know where the secret redaction button on the computer was.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

This was done in some previous 'scandle' about twenty years ago.
Set the color of the adobe hilighter to black.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 05:59 PM (/lPRQ)

274 What kind of name is Sharyn Alfonsi? Is that Slavic?
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (qFwJc)

Italian.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 05:59 PM (5xuJ/)

275 Many out of work journalists and only so many truck stops.

There will be blood in the parking lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:00 PM (2GVsD)

276 If you lie and the right people notice -- like your boss, who you just tried to #Cancel -- then the pretense that lying is a fireable offense becomes reality.
++++
Yup.

The offense is not the lie.
The offense was taking a run at the viceroy. The king doesn't take kindly to minor courtiers trying to topple his viceroys.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:01 PM (avHHk)

277 >> What kind of name is Sharyn Alfonsi?

Sounds like some woman Lenny and Squiggy would be perving after in a episode of Laverne and Shirley.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:02 PM (w6EFb)

278 There's nothing wrong with not wanting to date a different race.

Being a leftist is the most awful, miserable mindset ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Yup. Ask the Strong, Independent Black Women and their opinion of Black Men dating White chicks in the US or getting a passport to find a Filipino wife.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

NW European men and SE Asian women go together like apple butter on white bread. Mmmm mmm mmm.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (/lPRQ)

279 Axios was able to view it, of course, because despite the piece being held up by Bari Weiss, somehow it wound up airing in communist Canada.

Which is almost certainly another case of gross insubordination.
++++
*Maybe*

It is entirely possible that it was an accident. The Canadian channel had a carriage contract for CBS content and it was sent as a matter of course, for example.

Like how the "Sound of Freedom" ended up being released. Disney bought Fox and shoved most of Fox into the vault and forgot about it. The new boss came in, got an offer for something in the vault, and decided to take the money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (avHHk)

280 Red flags?

Your date needs an emotional support dog that is a Chihuahua.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (2GVsD)

281 Acting white is simply acting civilized.

Nah, you can act civilized and be all sorts of cultures. Acting White is acting White, we have a culture and a standard.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (3Amc7)

282 >> What kind of name is Sharyn Alfonsi?

Sounds like some woman Lenny and Squiggy would be perving after in a episode of Laverne and Shirley.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:02 PM (w6EFb)

See my post at 274.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (5xuJ/)

283 This bikini Asian finds it a tad amusing the vaunted "free press" in the West is just as much blatant propaganda as the unfree presses elsewhere:
http://tiny.cc/24tw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (avHHk)

284 "her therapist" is the Big Red Flag

High priests of the modern secular religion. And where they may have been useful in the past, they're too far into hard left ideology, buzz phrases, and telling people that everyone else is to blame now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (3Amc7)

285 If she has a therapist and a life coach then run, run right now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:06 PM (2GVsD)

286 This bikini Asian finds it a tad amusing the vaunted "free press" in the West is just as much blatant propaganda as the unfree presses elsewhere:
http://tiny.cc/24tw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (avHHk)

I think God absolutely nailed it with the female form.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:07 PM (Zz0t1)

287 If she has a therapist and a life coach then run, run right now..

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:06 PM (2GVsD)

Agreed.

I've been married for 21 years and am thankful we've been able to grow together and keep things working.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:08 PM (Zz0t1)

288 NOOD !!!!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 06:08 PM (sDNVV)

289 281 Acting white is simply acting civilized.

Nah, you can act civilized and be all sorts of cultures. Acting White is acting White, we have a culture and a standard.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Not enough nuance in my post, I'll admit. Think of all the things that are called 'acting white' that when non whites do them they are criticized. What are those things? Eating mayonnaise on your sandwich, or being on time for your meeting. The latter, right? The things that are being attacked are the things that make our (formerly) high trust society work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 06:09 PM (Dv3i1)

290
"her therapist" is the Big Red Flag

High priests of the modern secular religion. And where they may have been useful in the past, they're too far into hard left ideology, buzz phrases, and telling people that everyone else is to blame now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (3Amc7)

I thought the high priests were "life coaches".

Therapists are just medium-functioning crazy people who like spreading the crazy and have trust funds or exes who pay alimony on time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (y9nCu)

291 Wait...there are people that actually watch "60 Minutes?"
I knew that show was complete bullshit trash in 1990-something with the whole "unintended acceleration" non-sense that was made up from whole cloth and defied the laws of physics. Never watched another episode.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 23, 2025 06:13 PM (XMwZJ)

Hunter Biden: Of Course My Father's Calamitous Bug-Out from Afghanistan Was a "F***ing Failure;" And Of Course We Shouldn't Allow In Immigrants That "Drain Our Resources"

Is Hunter Biden now a racist?

Wait a sec, he already was -- "no yellow." (Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.)

MXM:

Even Hunter Biden isn't pretending anymore.
The former president's son admitted this week that his father's handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was an "obvious f**king failure," putting a blunt, unsparing label on what many Americans have long viewed as one of the most humiliating and deadly episodes of Joe Biden's presidency.
Hunter made the remarks during an appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show, where he also broke from Democrat orthodoxy on immigration. While arguing in favor of legal immigration, Hunter criticized policies that elevate illegal entrants over Americans who served the country. "We need vibrant immigration," he said, "but we don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally draining us of resources and also being prioritized above people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home" after decades of war. The comment echoed a core argument advanced repeatedly by Donald Trump, who has framed Biden-era border policy as both reckless and morally inverted.
But it was Afghanistan that drew Hunter's sharpest verdict. Asked directly what his father got wrong in office, he pointed to the August 2021 withdrawal that left Americans and allies scrambling as the Taliban swept back into Kabul. "I think one of the failures was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan," Hunter said. "I think it was an obvious f**king failure." Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate during the evacuation, a loss that became a defining symbol of the administration's collapse overseas.
That assessment stands in stark contrast to Joe Biden himself, who insisted in 2023 that he made no mistakes in the withdrawal despite bipartisan criticism, military testimony, and the visible chaos that unfolded on the world stage. The administration has long resisted accepting responsibility, even as the consequences linger.

So what's going on here? Let's put aside the idea that Hunter Biden has suddenly embraced honesty.

As we've seen, Democrats are now pushing the idea that out-of-control illegal immigration isn't Democrat policy, but was all Biden's fault, and only Biden's fault. The Democrat policy is perfect -- the Real Villain Here is Biden's faulty implementation of that policy, and now that Biden is out of office and will probably be dead within the year, it's time to throw that weight out of the sinking ship.

As to why Hunter Biden would participate in the Democrats' scheme to claim that Biden is the Devil who Deceived them -- I read someone on X stating that Hunter Biden is $15 million in debt. Daddy's not going to be able to get him million dollar checks from Chinese spymasters and Russian oligarchs any longer. He needs a new patron, and that patron will of course be in the Democrat Party.

And the Democrat Party network of bribery is currently shutting its wallets to the Bidens. Joe Biden will almost certainly not be able to fund a Biden presidential library.

E X X ➠A L E R T S
@ExxAlerts
BREAKING: Biden's presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting.
Key details from IRS filings:
- Zero new donations in 2024, Biden's entire final year in office.
- Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
- Projects only $11.3M total by end of 2027, a tiny fraction of the $200M goal aides have discussed.
- Far below what recent presidents raised for their libraries.
Insiders now say discussions are underway to merge the project with existing Biden institutes at the University of Delaware to make it viable.

BREAKING: Biden's presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting.

Key details from IRS filings:

- Zero new donations in 2024, Biden's entire final year in office.
- Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
-� pic.twitter.com/RQ2HgTvfFr
— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) December 15, 2025

I foresee one Amtrak train sporting a "Cafe Car and Biden Presidential Library Nook." Right next to the sporks and packets of mustard and relish.

Mmm, train hot dogs with train mustard and train relish.

Biden raised zero dollars in 2024. They refuse to say what they raised in 2025.

From @nytimes: 'Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library.' Raised exactly $0 in new donations in all of 2024. https://t.co/5vCi6pCXAt
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 13, 2025

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million -- not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its viability as a stand-alone project, according to public filings and interviews with his donors.
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden's library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency. The foundation was instead seeded entirely with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration.
The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025. It said that Mr. Biden was only now beginning to actively raise money. He is holding the first event for potential library donors on Monday in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood.
Still, Mr. Biden's foundation told the I.R.S. this year that it expected to bring in just $11.3 million, total, by the end of 2027. That would be far below the pace set by other recent presidents, and far less than the $200 million that Mr. Biden's aides say they want to raise eventually.
Partly because of that poor fund-raising, discussions are underway about consolidating a potential Biden library with pre-existing Biden institutions at the University of Delaware, according to four people who were granted anonymity to talk about the private planning process. That might allow the library to take advantage of the millions of dollars that the university, the former president's alma mater, has already raised to build a "Biden Hall."
So far, some of Mr. Biden's most loyal contributors said they had not been contacted by anyone about giving to the library. Other Democratic donors have said that even if Mr. Biden asks them, they are unlikely to give money because they are focused on fighting President Trump or are embittered by Mr. Biden's term in office.
John Morgan, a longtime Democratic donor who was one of Mr. Biden's top bundlers, said he would not give "a penny" to the former president's library, citing poor treatment from Mr. Biden's staff.

"The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him," Mr. Morgan said. "He'll be lucky to have a bookmobile."

Huntie's other obvious source of money is grifting from the publishing industry, which is always eager to give leftwing tyrants absurd amounts of money for books that will never sell more than a couple of thousand copies. It's all illegal campaign donations and influence-buying.

But they're not going to give Huntie that. They are taking out their anger for their 2024 loss on the Biden Crime Family.

Though... Huntie could maybe get a modest deal if he, get this, showed that he was now ready to be candid and spill the real secrets.

He won't, of course. But he needs to put out the idea that giving him $500,000 for a book would be a defensible decision by a publishing executive.

And so: He shows the tiniest amount of ankle.

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1 Hello

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (UdiE9)

2

Hello All!

Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (3ek7K)

3 Wasn't Sasse responsible for a lot of spending on "consultants" during his brief tenure running the University of Florida? If so, he fits in well with other 'principled' NeverTrumpers [ahoy!].

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (UdiE9)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

5 There may be hope for this Hunter fellow after all. ... Nah...

Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (XMwZJ)

6 (Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.)
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I confess, I like them too. I am not a strong man

Posted by: 496 at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (uC8L0)

7 The former president's son admitted this week that his father's handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was an "obvious f**king failure," putting a blunt, unsparing label on what many Americans have long viewed as one of the most humiliating and deadly episodes of Joe Biden's presidency.
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Man, he's pissed now that the well is dry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (avHHk)

8
We ought to invite him as the next guest contributor for first world problems.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (n7rxJ)

9
Is Hunter still in South Africa mooching off his in-laws?

Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (3ek7K)

10 Biden should build a presidential outhouse. Fitting, it would be.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (XMwZJ)

11 Hunter is broke. He should sell some paintings.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (u73oe)

12 Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

13 Hunter Biden: Of Course My Father's Calamitous Bug-Out from Afghanistan Was a "F***ing Failure;" And Of Course We Shouldn't Allow In Immigrants That "Drain Our Resources"

Is Hunter Biden now a racist?

No. He knows that the more immigrants there are, the less grift is available for him.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (lEejK)

14 He has time to make more art.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (5DEFi)

15 As to why Hunter Biden would participate in the Democrats' scheme to claim that Biden is the Devil who Deceived them -- I read someone on X stating that Hunter Biden is $15 million in debt. Daddy's not going to be able to get him million dollar checks from Chinese spymasters and Russian oligarchs any longer. He needs a new patron, and that patron will of course be in the Democrat Party.
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It was before.

Well, various well-connected Democrat power players like his sugar daddy.

He might be training to maintain/resurrect that by helping blame his demented old father for the problems of the Party, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (avHHk)

16 biden grifted enough dough in his 4 years a president Otto pen to fund 800 libraries. He doesn't need any donations.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (0N4FZ)

17
He's a pill popper. He didn't see it was a red pill.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (IifOV)

18 Hunter was counting on inheriting Pop's estate but Jill will probably outlast Hunter.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (odK/5)

19 Huntie's other obvious source of money is grifting from the publishing industry, which is always eager to give leftwing tyrants absurd amounts of money for books that will never sell more than a couple of thousand copies. It's all illegal campaign donations and influence-buying.
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Run by Party power players. It's such an obvious scheme that it's hilarious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (avHHk)

20 >> foresee one Amtrak train sporting a "Cafe Car and Biden Presidential Library Nook." Right next to the sporks and packets of mustard and relish.

Nah, it’s going to be a magazine rack next to the toilet.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (wn0/z)

21 People keep expecting some mythical new version Obama to come out of the woodwork to save Democrats from Newsom and Harris.

It could be Hunter Biden.

He's willing to shit on his party the way Trump was willing to shit on the GOP.

Well, Hunter has as much a shot as Wes Moore, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

22 Maybe Barry can put up a few bookshelves for Joe in one of his library's bathrooms.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (n9XW8)

23

Any bets that someone will start a GoFundMe for Hunter?

People are crazy.

Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (3ek7K)

24
Ace should post screenshots of the White House "walk of fame" portrait-biographies. The ones for biden & obama are hilarious.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (TWzjC)

25 Joey Shithead's library donations are nothing because he has no more influence to sell. These kind of donations were always about currying favor with someone who still had pull.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

26 You can always tell when a Democrat is considered finished running for office.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (oHAzj)

27 It’s harder getting recognized for your expertise in natural gas when your dad’s no longer VP

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (rbvCR)

28 Also Hunter:

Interviewer: “You have a party that says you’re a fascist, then you have assassination attempts across the country.”

Biden: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t act like a fascist.”

F that guy to hell.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)

29 Hunter was counting on inheriting Pop's estate but Jill will probably outlast Hunter.

She'll 'out-grasp' Hunter, for sure.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (n9XW8)

30
The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025.

Could it possibly be a negative number?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (pkeXY)

31 Don't forget, Ace, Huntie is now saying the laptop was a farce and there's NO WAY his massive amount of emails could be housed on a laptop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

32 28 Also Hunter:

Interviewer: “You have a party that says you’re a fascist, then you have assassination attempts across the country.”

Biden: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t act like a fascist.”

F that guy to hell.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)

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Not even Mitch McConnell voted for the public-private partnership of health insurance that was the ACA, though. Is it really the GOP that's fascist?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

33 Yeah. Joe is a liability now. They'll personalize all his failures and chuck him under the bus with Carter.
This was known.

"Hunter/Harris 2028 -- Blow...something...something"

Posted by: 29Victor at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (0MjtC)

34
Is it bullshit or not bullshit?

I see people on "our side" claiming the new Avatar shit "flopped," but didn't already earn, like, $350M?

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (TWzjC)

35 > Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.

Or ass-men. 95% of Asian chicks have flat asses.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (Yp6az)

36 30
The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025.

Could it possibly be a negative number?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (pkeXY)

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Well, executives gotta get paid!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (GBKbO)

37 He also said there was no laptop.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (pkeXY)

38 A plead not to go after Sundowner for supplying opposing forces?

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

39 honestly it's DELAWARE. real estate there should be uber-cheap

they should take the Tri State Mall and make that his "liberry"

you wouldn't have to do a thing to it, it's currently a perfect representation of Joe Biden and his trash family

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (emBoF)

40 Years ago Steel Services archives would fit on a laptop twice.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (5DEFi)

41 No yellow here, either. I find they all look the same. Glad most people find them attractive, as it leaves more Nordic princesses for me.

Posted by: Odd Fra Oslo at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (oftw2)

42 34
Is it bullshit or not bullshit?

I see people on "our side" claiming the new Avatar shit "flopped," but didn't already earn, like, $350M?

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (TWzjC)

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The Avatar movies are known for having incredible legs, remaining top of the box office for weeks and weeks.

Both of the first two movies did it.

Will Avatar 3 act like an Avatar movie or a random other movie? If it acts like other movies, it'll probably be a net-money loser in theaters. If it acts like the other two Avatar movies, it'll steadily climb to 2 billion and no one will know how.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

43
Also, What's This?

A Pittsburgh Steelers black player physically assaulted a fan in the stands...on camera??

Guess What!

Guess WHY he attacked the fan. I'll give you 3 guesses.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (TWzjC)

44
It's the best Christmas ever Mr Scrooge!

Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (YAFrp)

45 Asian women really hit the wall hard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (5DEFi)

46 Netflix isn't racing to give the Bidens any deals like the Obamas, right?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (rJ48h)

47 43
Also, What's This?

A Pittsburgh Steelers black player physically assaulted a fan in the stands...on camera??

Guess What!

Guess WHY he attacked the fan. I'll give you 3 guesses.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (TWzjC)

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He was complaining about naggers?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

48 Delaware should be nuked from space for electing that f*ckhead retard for 5 decades. Just to be sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

49 The reason for this is obvious, and Ace missed it.

Look at what Hunter is saying. The Afghanistan withdrawal was bungled. Immigration is out of control and needs to be constrained to ensure higher quality for Americans. It's a soft but real "America First" kind of argument on two issues that are clear Republican winners. In addition, Hunter is a "man's man" type. He is unseemly, but he is successful with women and both works and plays hard.

Now keep that in mind and consider the attempted reframing of Democrats from the early summer: be more manly, be more in touch, walk back the excesses. THAT is what this about. Hunter is a manly man who can find some common ground with major GOP positions that are also widely popular, and doesn't denigrate his fellow citizens or speak in academic language.

This is more about continuing this year's work to rebrand the Democrat Party. He is out there to be rational, good-looking and blunt-talking to soften up the white male margins of the Democrat Party for the next front-runner to come in and continue it with a lot more polish. Hunter will be rewarded for this, but it less about his father than it is about remaking the party's image.

Posted by: Theory From a Universe Even More Clownish Than Ours at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (avHHk)

50 In that Shawn Ryan interview, Hunter also said there was no laptop. Made it sound like a setup.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (aZm/F)

51 It's time to chum the swordfish and sharks!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (nljXp)

52 Without actually listening to this interview (don't worry, I won't), I'm going to go out on the world's shortest limb and figure that Hunter Biden is just making sounds come out of his crack hole.

He's got that personality disorder (Cluster B?), that kind of pathological awfulness, where he will say literally anything if it means ingratiating himself to whoever he's talking to. Ukrainian oil board? Slavvy Yookrainey, bitches. Talking to some lefty? Talk a bunch of lefty shit. Talking to Shawn Ryan? Talk a bunch of Shawn Ryan-y shit.

He doesn't believe a word coming out of his mouth. It's just a series of tongue-movements and palate-slapping and pharyngeal restrictions orchestrated to get Person In Front Of Me to say "hey this Hunter guy ain't so bad after all". This guy doesn't like my dad? Fuck my dad, he sucks.

The dude is broken.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (06Hmj)

53 "While arguing in favor of legal immigration..."

Funny how lefties get such gracious framing. Righties, on the other hand, are "anti-immigration," full stop. Must be nice to be among the Elect.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (NYInA)

54
Guess WHY he attacked the fan. I'll give you 3 guesses.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (TWzjC)

The fan says he used the guy's full name.

There is no audio of the interaction.

I would bet the fan is lying like he's a Democrat office holder.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

55
WTF is an "asian" chick?

You mean Oriental?

Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?

There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)

56 >>> 50 In that Shawn Ryan interview, Hunter also said there was no laptop. Made it sound like a setup.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (aZm/F)

It was the Jooz!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (ULPxl)

57 A fantasy . Hunter returns to Delaware and runs against the tranny congresscritter. Hilarity will ensue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (2vrAX)

58 49 This is more about continuing this year's work to rebrand the Democrat Party. He is out there to be rational, good-looking and blunt-talking to soften up the white male margins of the Democrat Party for the next front-runner to come in and continue it with a lot more polish. Hunter will be rewarded for this, but it less about his father than it is about remaking the party's image.

Posted by: Theory From a Universe Even More Clownish Than Ours at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (avHHk)

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He had another outburst like this months ago, and the family's financial prospects have only gotten worse.

The party is not behind this rebrand. If they were, they wouldn't have suppressed the 2024 autopsy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

59 All ugly as fuck.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (5DEFi)

60 Biden is really missing the opportunity to sell naming rights to his museum to Depends or Procter and Gamble

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (sKqQm)

61 Not even Mitch McConnell voted for the public-private partnership of health insurance that was the ACA, though. Is it really the GOP that's fascist?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

Democrats will not like a world in which legit fascists are fair game.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

62 Poor Joe. He didn't understand that 10% of 0 is still 0.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (s0JqF)

63
He was complaining about naggers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Of course!

The fan supposebly called him a nagger.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (TWzjC)

64 Hunter Biden is a sorry sack of sh*t and he can take a flying fu*k at a rolling donut. I don't give a Tinker's damn what he says.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (2WIwB)

65

Hunter isn't getting money from the wacko leftists now, so he's switching sides to grift from stupid people on the right.

Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (3ek7K)

66 I won't donate, but I'll piss on it when it's done.
If that helps.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (jNFIZ)

67 Harris / Hunter 2028

Ass, gas or grass, nobody rides for free.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

68 Oriental just means eastern.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (5DEFi)

69 Wait a sec, he already was -- "no yellow." (Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.)

Something wrong with a man who rejects all Asian girls
Also: Hunter claims to be 15 million in debt. What a crackhead

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (3Amc7)

70 WTF is an "asian" chick?

You mean Oriental?

Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?

There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)
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LOL. In this country, "Asian" usually means "East Asian." In Britain, it usually means South Asian.

West Asians are their own thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (avHHk)

71 Hunter isn't getting money from the wacko leftists now, so he's switching sides to grift from stupid people on the right.

That is my take as well. He's hoping to get the Nick Fuentes/Candace Owens crowd

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (3Amc7)

72 They can be really annoying.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (5DEFi)

73 I finally saw the new Fantastic Four last night. It sucked donkey ass. Just terrible across the board. Bad casting, bad general plot, bad script, bad effects, bad everything.

What kind of morons make a movie about a Kaiju-ish monster devouring Earth and then spend 50% of the movie on deathly dull (and creepy) plotline about having a baby?

What kind of morons design the best character in the movie (Grimm) and make him look like someone scraped dogshit off the street and formed the outline of the Hulk? His head looks like a shit penis that's been left in the sun to crack.

The Reed character is supposed to be a super-genius, but his plan to teleport the entire Earth (!) to some rando location light-years away was so insanely stupid I can't believe it made the final script.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

74
The fan says he used the guy's full name.

Posted by: Sponge

Is the player's name Negro Von Negro, or something??

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (TWzjC)

75 Yes Hunter projects the tough tawkin masculinity that the DNC craves to fool the normies. Which shows you they will whore themselves out to anyone at any time for any reason. But you knew that.

And remember their problem with Trump is he's immoral and dishonest. Swearsies.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (oHAzj)

76 I suspect Hunter's real intent is to show the *legitimacy* and *capacity* to wreak havoc by his truth telling.

I imagine a lot of his old "friends" are panicked over what he might say if not paid off.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (jNFIZ)

77 Occident Orient.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (5DEFi)

78 "(Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.)"
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Ace really knew what he was doing when he slipped this line in

Posted by: 496 at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (uC8L0)

79 Only Democrats use that word sorry.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (oHAzj)

80 Interviewer: “You have a party that says you’re a fascist, then you have assassination attempts across the country.”

Biden: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t act like a fascist.”

F that guy to hell.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)

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Not even Mitch McConnell voted for the public-private partnership of health insurance that was the ACA, though. Is it really the GOP that's fascist?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

The lack of self-awareness and magnitude of projection are both astounding. The Democrats in terms of economic policy are classically fascist in many aspects but use it as an epithet against anyone not supportive of the agenda.

Posted by: Reminiscent of Stalin... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (TbWk/)

81 As we've seen, Democrats are now pushing the idea that out-of-control illegal immigration isn't Democrat policy, but was all Biden's fault, and only Biden's fault.

And yet... Democrats in Congress, state governments, and the judiciary have decided that it's the hill for them to die on. Odd that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (ExV1e)

82 I heard from The Street that there is real estate available in Ukraine for a Biden library.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (nljXp)

83 Is Hunter Biden now a racist?

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Nick Fuentes / Hunter Biden 2028!

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (wlKBZ)

84 And yet... Democrats in Congress, state governments, and the judiciary have decided that it's the hill for them to die on. Odd that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (ExV1e)
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Crazy, eh?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (avHHk)

85 73 The Reed character is supposed to be a super-genius, but his plan to teleport the entire Earth (!) to some rando location light-years away was so insanely stupid I can't believe it made the final script.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

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The movie's release on Disney+ was reportedly the softest Marvel release on the streaming service since the streaming service started.

It made less money than Thunderbolts.

In an unrelated note, the first teaser for Avengers Doomsday released. Steve Rogers is going to be back as Captain America.

Marvel's doing great right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

86 11 Hunter is broke. He should sell some paintings.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (u73oe)

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If we had real journalists, one might have asked, "You were making $500,000 a painting, why not continue to sell your art?"

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (aZm/F)

87
Call them "celestials," then.

But don't call them "asians."

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (TWzjC)

88 And I will always have a soft place in my hard and turgid place in my pants for Asian chicks.

Posted by: Call it yellow fever, I don't care at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (TbWk/)

89 So what's going on here? Let's put aside the idea that Hunter Biden has suddenly embraced honesty.

As we've seen, Democrats are now pushing the idea that out-of-control illegal immigration isn't Democrat policy, but was all Biden's fault, and only Biden's fault. The Democrat policy is perfect -- the Real Villain Here is Biden's faulty implementation of that policy, and now that Biden is out of office and will probably be dead within the year, it's time to throw that weight out of the sinking ship.

They are such venal, calculating liars. I wouldn't trust them to rake my leaves.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (Riz8t)

90 His head looks like a shit penis that's been left in the sun to crack.

They clearly modeled him to be huge, then changed their minds and made him small, shrinking him. But now his head is smaller than normal and makes him look stupid. The Thing is supposed to be gruff and huge, not nebbishy and normal height.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (3Amc7)

91 Insiders now say discussions are underway to merge the project with existing Biden institutes at the University of Delaware to make it viable.

They should consider merging with Obama's library to keep all three terms in one place.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (ExV1e)

92 65
Hunter isn't getting money from the wacko leftists now, so he's switching sides to grift from stupid people on the right.

Posted by: four seasons
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Nah, he is threatening to blow up the '26 election by leaking lots of bad things about the Dems, expecting them to pay him off.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (jNFIZ)

93 heart not hard

Freudian slip

Posted by: Call it yellow fever, I don't care at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (TbWk/)

94 Call them "celestials," then.

But don't call them "asians."
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (TWzjC)

"Mongoloid" is right out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (06Hmj)

95
Real illegal immigration has never been tried.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (oHAzj)

96 I wouldn't spend too much time analyzing Bob Biden

his has very few brain cells

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (emBoF)

97 80 The lack of self-awareness and magnitude of projection are both astounding. The Democrats in terms of economic policy are classically fascist in many aspects but use it as an epithet against anyone not supportive of the agenda.

Posted by: Reminiscent of Stalin... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (TbWk/)

=======

"The executive having control of the executive branch of government instead of independent agencies and then reducing the overall power of the executive branch by slashing departments to the bone and eliminating huge swaths of regulation is fascism."
-the modern left

"I need to kill myself."
-Zombie George Orwell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

98 76 I suspect Hunter's real intent is to show the *legitimacy* and *capacity* to wreak havoc by his truth telling.

I imagine a lot of his old "friends" are panicked over what he might say if not paid off.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (jNFIZ)

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This was my thought also.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (aZm/F)

99 Insiders now say discussions are underway to merge the project with existing Biden institutes at the University of Delaware to make it viable.

They should consider merging with Obama's library to keep all three terms in one place.

Butt plugs are not usually a shared item.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (Riz8t)

100 WTF is an "asian" chick?

You mean Oriental?

Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?

There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)
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"Asian" as used in the USA usually means "yellow" asian (oriental). That's how I use it. Sometimes it's used to refer to Indians, but to me they ain't asian.

The Blade likes them all, though. He don't discriminate, he regulates every shade of the ass!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

101
Irish > Asian

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (oHAzj)

102 UD is perfect

just call it Biden U and there you go

lower the standards - start admitting kids who CAN'T write their names in crayon

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (emBoF)

103
If Trump was smart, he'd tweet right now: Democrats Want To Re-Open The Border.

Make.Them.Deny.It.

Or make them oppose it.

Control the Narrative. Control your Enemy.

This is how you Politick.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (TWzjC)

104 > Don't forget, Ace, Huntie is now saying the laptop was a farce and there's NO WAY his massive amount of emails could be housed on a laptop.

2019 MacBook Pro came in 128GB all the way up to 2TB.
Just back of the napkin, you could host 50,000 20MB images on 1TB. Let's say you use 500MB on the OS and various programs. I'm being very generous. Most installations are probably under 100MB. A 600 word email is at most 4KB. That's 128,000 emails in 500MB.

So a 2019 MacBook Pro with a HUGE bloatware problem could host at least 50,000 very high quality images and 128,000 600 word emails.

Hunter is full of shit.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (Yp6az)

105 The movie's release on Disney+ was reportedly the softest Marvel release on the streaming service since the streaming service started.

The Fantastic Four is cursed, they cannot get a good movie

One of my favorite hero teams, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (3Amc7)

106 Before they hit the Great Wall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (5DEFi)

107 My time working in Delaware Sundowner seemed like no one knew him , yet they keep voting for Leftists

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (Ia/+0)

108 The Blade likes them all, though. He don't discriminate, he regulates every shade of the ass!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

This is the way.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (dK+Kv)

109 The funniest part of the Biden junta is that it was deeply corrupt, but the Bidens are so bad with money that they came out of it with nothing because Hunter spent it all on coke and huge housing rentals.

They let the Politboro run free, got enough to keep Hunter in coke and hookers for 4 years, and almost nothing else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

110 am confused, was he high?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (xcxpd)

111 -Zero new donations in 2024, Biden's entire final year in office.
- Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
- Projects only $11.3M total by end of 2027, a tiny fraction of the $200M goal aides have discussed.

Obama was supposed to park $400M in a custody account to provide perpetual care at the park he took over for his North Korean Guard Tower.
TO date they have put in around $4 M.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (gbOdA)

112 DeKaylin Zecharius "DK" Metcalf

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

113 His head looks like a shit penis that's been left in the sun to crack.

They clearly modeled him to be huge, then changed their minds and made him small, shrinking him. But now his head is smaller than normal and makes him look stupid. The Thing is supposed to be gruff and huge, not nebbishy and normal height.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (3Amc7)
____

Yea, and as it is Grimm seems to change size depending on the scene he's in. In some scenes, he looks barely larger than a big man.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

114 WTF is an "asian" chick?

You mean Oriental?

Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?

There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)

Only Limeys use "asian" to denote, say, Pakistanis in order to obfuscate the third-world shit-hole origins of their muslim rape gangs.

Posted by: Rotherham? Those pesky restive Asian youths. at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (TbWk/)

115 Oh Hunter is still pretending. He's pretending to be more moderate and sensible. It's what they all do when they want to run for office/rehab a family image to get more money. It's the demoncrat way!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (2J/Lj)

116 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.

Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

117 >>>Hunter is full of shit.

Lot of words to state the obvious.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (dK+Kv)

118 $200 million for Biden's library? Seriously?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (WPL6O)

119
You know what's great about oriental babes?
They have their oriental face, with the slanty barely-open can-blind-them-with-dental-floss eyes, but naked...they have caucasian boobies and everything.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (TWzjC)

120 So what's going on here?

---------------

His last attempt at a Dem Donor and Deep State (BIRM) shakedown to shut-up didn't pay enough -- and no one's buying his constipated paintings.

He wants $20 billion, same as in that town called "Keev" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (wlKBZ)

121 Second look at Hunter as DHS secretary?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (UJWr0)

122 Only Limeys use "asian" to denote, say, Pakistanis in order to obfuscate the third-world shit-hole origins of their muslim rape gangs.

also because English dudes are VERY into (actual) Asian ladies. so the old brits go for "importing Asians" and get ... something very different than they imagined

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 03:03 PM (emBoF)

123 116 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.

Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

======

We went through something like this. Crushed us. We still named her and buried her. It's hard.

My condolences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

124 I'm seeing a fair number of leftists posting various screenshots of them have to pay 300-500/month for health insurance with the COVID handouts ending...then complaining the Republicans raised the cost of their health insurance.

And the amusing part is people posting screenshots of their work provided healthcare already costing 4X what these people are paying and noting that if the leftists don't like Obamacare they should call up their Dem congressmen and tell them to join the Republicans to repeal it...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

125 121 Second look at Hunter as DHS secretary?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (UJWr0)

Drugs
Hooker and
Spank

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (gbOdA)

126 I'm so sorry pookysgirl

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (emBoF)

127

pookysgirl,

I'm so sorry for you all.

Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (3ek7K)

128 The Reed character is supposed to be a super-genius, but his plan to teleport the entire Earth (!) to some rando location light-years away was so insanely stupid I can't believe it made the final script.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

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The movie's release on Disney+ was reportedly the softest Marvel release on the streaming service since the streaming service started.

It made less money than Thunderbolts.

In an unrelated note, the first teaser for Avengers Doomsday released. Steve Rogers is going to be back as Captain America.

Marvel's doing great right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
____

I liked the 1960s retro look, but it made no sense given how high tech everything else was. They've got spaceships and FTL travel and teleportation, but they're still using old cassette data storage and cameras with those big old flashbulbs?

They reportedly spent over $200M on this thing, but the SFX looked like something from 2005. The silver surfer chick barely looked better than the T1000 from T2 ... in 1991?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

129 In all his time in Washington the only thing Biden did well, and unquestionably succeeded at doing, was stealing the 2020 election.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (nHscG)

130 124 I'm seeing a fair number of leftists posting various screenshots of them have to pay 300-500/month for health insurance with the COVID handouts ending...then complaining the Republicans raised the cost of their health insurance.

And the amusing part is people posting screenshots of their work provided healthcare already costing 4X what these people are paying and noting that if the leftists don't like Obamacare they should call up their Dem congressmen and tell them to join the Republicans to repeal it...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

======

The first step to repealing the ACA is making it unpopular again.

A bad law aggressively enforced is the best way to repeal it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

131 What kind of morons make a movie about a Kaiju-ish monster devouring Earth and then spend 50% of the movie on deathly dull (and creepy) plotline about having a baby?

...

The Reed character is supposed to be a super-genius, but his plan to teleport the entire Earth (!) to some rando location light-years away was so insanely stupid I can't believe it made the final script.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

They should have erected a giant space sign stating that the solar system is a Kaiju-ish monster free zone and Galactus could not have harmed us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (ExV1e)

132 > Lot of words to state the obvious.

Sure, but in this day and age it's important to say WHY something is true. Too many people simply assert their belief as fact and can't articulate an argument.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (Yp6az)

133 116 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

I am so very very sorry. We grieve this terrible news with you.

Posted by: Hard-hearted asshole who's misting up at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)

134 Well not being legally elected President should have consequences.

This ain't much but it's a start.

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (rHQec)

135 Limeys use "asian" to denote, say, Pakistanis in order to obfuscate the third-world shit-hole origins of their muslim rape gangs.
Posted by: Rotherham? Those pesky restive Asian youths. at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (TbWk/)

—

Yeah when the Rothwrfam thing first got into the news I was confused. I was like a) there’s that many Asians in the UK and b) Chinese, Koreans, etc aren’t known for being the rape gang types. It was weird.

Took me a while to realize “Asian” means SE Asian and really means Pakistani, and really means Muslim. Then it all made sense.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (UJWr0)

136 Oriental chicks can keep their looks with few wrinkles until age 48. Then they all look like some Mamasan working in a hand laundry. It happens overnight.

Hispanic ladies hit the wall age 28-33, depending on how much weight they gain. AOC hit the wall a couple years ago. Her haunches are enormous now. No longer the dancing coed from college. They also get serious fat around the middle.

Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)

137 Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

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I'm sorry for your whole family.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (aZm/F)

138 Wild!

Daddy Joe is going to yank his pardon! I can't think of any other reason he's doing this!

Maybe he wants a gofundme?

I don't need a gofundme, but I could use some elves to wrap gifts I have procrastinated...while I bake cookies I have procrastinated. Plus making Christmas Eve dinner prep, which should be all I am doing today in serenity.

I am unserene, but filled with the joy and blessings of Christmas with no snow. So, that's something vs wailing like an influencer in my car about the lack of snow that I am used to.

Why do they always video themselves in their car? I also don't have fake eyelashes or social media, so maybe 2026 is my year to influence!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (WONhk)

139 Insiders now say discussions are underway to merge the project with existing Biden institutes at the University of Delaware to make it viable.

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Simply turn his Corvette into The Biden Presidential Bookmobile.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (wlKBZ)

140 English dudes are VERY into (actual) Asian ladies.

I am sick o' wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
An' the blasted English drizzle wakes the fever in my bones;
Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand,
An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?
Beefy face an' grubby 'and -
Law! wot do they understand?
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
On the road to Mandalay...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (Riz8t)

141 Biden Presidential Library:
Scratch 'n Sniff books...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)

142
Sorry, Pook.

Will pray for comfort.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (TWzjC)

143 Hunter is not big enough to play blackmail games with anyone. He is doing someone's bidding.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oHAzj)

144 That's awful, Pookysgirl. I'm so sorry.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (Yp6az)

145 So the Biden Crime Family hits hard times. This is really sad. Now the Clintons and Obamas turn.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (pLaQB)

146 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.

Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

I'm so sorry. That happened to us probably 15 or so years ago. They gave the First Lady drugs to induce labor and she miscarried on my birthday. First Daughter was very young and we had to hide everything from her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

147 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

So sorry to hear that. I went through something very similar at one point and it is *devastating*. People generally don't talk about it, so when you are expecting you don't think about it, but unfortunately it does happen.

Hug your family and take the time you'll need to recover.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (sKqQm)

148 Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.

Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
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It happened to us too. So terrible. We love you pookysgirl. Hang in there, and try again if you are able.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (nHscG)

149 Thunderbolts was ok

The only cool thing about Fantastic 4 was the retro 1950s setting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (+El+t)

150 141 Biden Presidential Library:
Scratch 'n Sniff books...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (xcxpd)

151 116 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.

Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

I'm so sorry.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (ynpvh)

152 > It made less money than Thunderbolts.

I can honestly say this is the first I've even heard of that movie. I might have seen a promotional image of David Harbour in his costume.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (Yp6az)

153 For $4 million, Biden can throw together four or five of the finest trailers and have the first presidential library in a trailer park.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (2WIwB)

154 Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

Oh no pg I will be praying - I am so so so so sorry.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (oHAzj)

155 Oriental chicks can keep their looks with few wrinkles until age 48. Then they all look like some Mamasan working in a hand laundry. It happens overnight. ...
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)
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LOL. Sometimes it goes like that.

~16 - ~45: virtual stasis in terms of appearance.
Then, one day, wake up as Kim Jong Il.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (avHHk)

156 Limeys use "asian" to denote, say, Pakistanis in order to obfuscate the third-world shit-hole origins of their muslim rape gangs.

The left loves to use language to make things like clear.

China has a lot of issues but rape gangs and sudden jihad syndrome are not part of them

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

157 In all his time in Washington the only thing Biden did well, and unquestionably succeeded at doing, was stealing the 2020 election.

I wouldn't say HE did it. He was along for the ride.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:09 PM (Riz8t)

158 {{{{pookysgirl}}}}

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 03:09 PM (znfsz)

159 133 116 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

I am so very sorry. Prayers for you all...and for a better outcome in 2026.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:09 PM (WONhk)

160 152 > It made less money than Thunderbolts.

I can honestly say this is the first I've even heard of that movie. I might have seen a promotional image of David Harbour in his costume.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (Yp6az)

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The Marvel movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars.

But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

And it's hundreds of millions of dollars less that they make than they used to make.

Steve Rogers is coming back for the new Avengers movie for a reason. Also all the X-Men from the Fox era. And, like...everyone else.

"Remember these guys?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

161 It made less money than Thunderbolts.

I saw that movie and kept fast forwarding waiting to get to some sort of action scene.

They have one 4 way fight that is kind of silly and then the rest of the movie is really just fictional people blathering about other fictional people I don't care about.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

162 The first step to repealing the ACA is making it unpopular again.

A bad law aggressively enforced is the best way to repeal it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

I always thot it was designed to FAIL and then TA DA
Mediscare for All.
Also a few questions on Medicare for all:
1. Monthly premium for my region is $185/mth. Are those payment to be deducted from your check?
2. A decent supplemental is is $150 to $200 per mth when paying for a quarter ($600 bux) at a time. Are people going to just shop for a supplemental and what if they do not have the cash.
3. No supp means Co-pays of 20%. Are people going to take out loans at the hospital?
4. There is no Rx in my numbers. That could be another $40 to $150 a month.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (gbOdA)

163
{{{{{{pg}}}}}}

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (oHAzj)

164 Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.

Oh no, I am so very sorry

What an awful loss, I will remember you in my prayers and wish for God to send you comfort and peace in this tragedy. Truly I wish I had the words.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (3Amc7)

165 Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)

Life sucks sometimes. Condolences.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (ExV1e)

166 In all his time in Washington the only thing Biden did well, and unquestionably succeeded at doing, was stealing the 2020 election.

Biden: “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization in the history of American politics”

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (sKqQm)

167 Oh, Pookys girl I'm so very sorry. I agree with ChristyBlinky: let's pray for better luck in 2026.

Posted by: Wenda at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (cRhQI)

168 I guess as creepy racist perverts go, I sort of prefer the "no yellow" crowd to the "only yellow" crowd. Disgusting weebs.

Posted by: almost serious at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (3sN3b)

169 129 In all his time in Washington the only thing Biden did well, and unquestionably succeeded at doing, was stealing the 2020 election.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (nHscG)

Like everything else, someone did it for him, and he got to ride the wave. I await the opportunity to urinate upon his grave.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (MZ+PY)

170 Steve Rogers is coming back for the new Avengers movie for a reason. Also all the X-Men from the Fox era. And, like...everyone else.

"Remember these guys?!"
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No. No I don't.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (pLaQB)

171 sad pookysgirl

prayers from down here by the Bay.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (gbOdA)

172 161 It made less money than Thunderbolts.

I saw that movie and kept fast forwarding waiting to get to some sort of action scene.

They have one 4 way fight that is kind of silly and then the rest of the movie is really just fictional people blathering about other fictional people I don't care about.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

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I've seen so little of Marvel since Endgame, and what I've seen is just...mediocre. And I think I've seen most of the best stuff.

Whatevs. It's not for me.

Ernst Lubitsch > the MCU.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

173 Alternatively, with the powerball at $1.7 billion, Biden could roll the dice and buy $4 million worth of tickets.
And lose it all!!!
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (2WIwB)

174 Jerry’s first date with the Pacific rim…. Donna Chang(stein) from Long Island

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (me+OG)

175 Will a Biden library be stuffed to the gills with those fucking cue cards made up to keep him from a stammering brain freeze?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (nljXp)

176 I like Shawn Ryan and enjoy his podcasts.

However, the snippets of video I saw from the interview revealed that a number of pushbacks were in order.

I would like to know who initiated the interview, if Hunter was paid, and what the question parameters were.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (aZm/F)

177 175 Will a Biden library be stuffed to the gills with those fucking cue cards made up to keep him from a stammering brain freeze?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (nljXp)

Depends dispensers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (ynpvh)

178 "This is just a stack of Hustlers, and a MadLibs book with 'butts' written into every single blank...."

"Yes. Yes. Feeeeel the Presidentialyness....."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (06Hmj)

179 Look at the last Powerball draw weird numbers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (5DEFi)

180 The Marvel movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars.

But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

And it's hundreds of millions of dollars less that they make than they used to make.

Steve Rogers is coming back for the new Avengers movie for a reason. Also all the X-Men from the Fox era. And, like...everyone else.

"Remember these guys?!"

For the love of all that's holy, get it through your thick skulls. Superhero movies are DEAD!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (Riz8t)

181 175 Will a Biden library be stuffed to the gills with those fucking cue cards made up to keep him from a stammering brain freeze?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (nljXp)

Attendants dressed up as Easter Bunnies to keep the crowds in check.
Oh, did I say crowds? Sorry, keep that one guy in check.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (ynpvh)

182 Look at the last Powerball draw weird numbers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (5DEFi)
++++
What does that mean?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (avHHk)

183 Well, I like Asian chicks when they're not too loud and crabby, and when they don't stab any of my family members, or threaten to do arson on my friends, or call the police on innocent people for dramatic effect, or use me as a mule in their trans-Pacific consumer-goods piracy.

But that hasn't been my particular experience.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (BI5O2)

184 Joey's Presidential library needs to be a burnt out van in Kabul.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (F0j7f)

185 180 For the love of all that's holy, get it through your thick skulls. Superhero movies are DEAD!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (Riz8t)

=====

"Only mostly dead."
-Miracle Max

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

186 Oriental chicks can keep their looks with few wrinkles until age 48. Then they all look like some Mamasan working in a hand laundry. It happens overnight.

Hispanic ladies hit the wall age 28-33, depending on how much weight they gain. AOC hit the wall a couple years ago. Her haunches are enormous now. No longer the dancing coed from college. They also get serious fat around the middle.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)

The woman you love never ages. Once upon a time women used to try and grab a man before the wall hit. Some still do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ExV1e)

187 I also saw Striking Rescue. It's a Tony Jaa action vehicle that's awful ... but awesome. Probably made for 1/100th of F4, but 100x more entertaining.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

188 as a friend quipped, how much would it actually cost to put a ticket booth in front of Biden's garage, where he kept his most important papers?

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (Iwv3U)

189 The Marvel movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars.

But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Well, that's the problem in a nutshell. They get lots of attention and viewers, they just cost too damned much. If they cost half as much, they'd make hundreds of millions of dollars and everyone would be happy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (3Amc7)

190 Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (gbOdA)
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I checked recently and if I bought insurance on my own the cheapest I could get for my family is $1400/mo with a $6k per person deductible.

It’s going to be hard to make Medicare for all vs the status quo argument in favor of status quo.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (UJWr0)

191 I've seen so little of Marvel since Endgame, and what I've seen is just...mediocre. And I think I've seen most of the best stuff.

I suspect their Dr Doom movie will be decent because they'll go back to Downey jr

But honestly they ruined the whole thing with Endgame by resetting everything. There is no emotional investment with no loss and sorry, no one cares about ScarJo faceplanting.

This is actually a core problem with superhero movies, generally everything goes back to the way it was before the movie started so what was the point?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (sKqQm)

192 Look at the last Powerball draw weird numbers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (5DEFi)
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What does that mean?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (avHHk)

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It could mean that somewhere there's a hawt chick in a bikini who is intrigued by weird numbers.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (2WIwB)

193 3 18 36 41 54 7. Symetrical.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (5DEFi)

194 186
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The woman you love never ages. Once upon a time women used to try and grab a man before the wall hit. Some still do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ExV1e)

Amen. And as she has passed, she remains ageless...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

195 189 The Marvel movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars.

But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Well, that's the problem in a nutshell. They get lots of attention and viewers, they just cost too damned much. If they cost half as much, they'd make hundreds of millions of dollars and everyone would be happy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (3Amc7)

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This was the MGM problem in the 50s.

Easily the biggest movie studio. Had all the biggest box office returns.

Losing money all over the place until they sold their library to CBS for cash because they could not get their productions under control.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

196 Joey needs the turn of a friendly card

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (F0j7f)

197 For the love of all that's holy, get it through your thick skulls. Superhero movies are DEAD!

How many absolute cratering bombs have there been in sci fi movies in the last 5 years? You can count the successes on one hand. Nobody thinks sci fi is dead, though. I wonder why?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (3Amc7)

198 I forget, how much am I paying for Medicare? Oh yeah, I forgot that I paid into it for all my working years, and now my wife and I are paying $400/month in retirement premiums.

But do bitch on ObamaCare moochers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (wBaIH)

199 188 as a friend quipped, how much would it actually cost to put a ticket booth in front of Biden's garage, where he kept his most important papers?
Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (Iwv3U)

True story:

The parking lot across the street from a building I work at often had their ticket thingy break down. They got the quote to replace it. They crunched the numbers. They said "Fuck it", put the gate up permanently, and now it's free parking.

Just a bit of anec-data for ya.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (06Hmj)

200 For the love of all that's holy, get it through your thick skulls. Superhero movies are DEAD!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (Riz8t)

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"Only mostly dead."
-Miracle Max
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)
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They've already got at least two Avengers movies coming out, and supposedly a sequel to F4. Plus probably more shit I don't know about. I expect at least a dozen superhero movies out in the next two years, if you include all the IP.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

201 This Asian lady is extremely relieved that Hunter Biden isn't in to her kind:
http://tiny.cc/azsw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (avHHk)

202
am confused, was he high?

He was in an ottomobile occident.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (pkeXY)

203 The woman you love never ages. Once upon a time women used to try and grab a man before the wall hit. Some still do.

Presuming you want kids, the modern idea of marrying so late is insane. Yes you get to "play the field" in your 20s and in most cases I don't think that is the reward most younger women are told it is...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

204 In a righteous world, *biden would be several 100's of millions of dollars in debt and unable to buy an Amtrak hotdog.... sans mustard or relish.

And his worthless son would be breaking rocks into pebbles.

Sadly, someone on the left with more money than brains will extend a hand. Full of money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (NwnyJ)

205 Who gives a crap what Hunter thinks? Is he some kind of celebrity? How many movies has he been in?

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (EMg+d)

206 Put a chick in it and make her fake and ghey.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (5DEFi)

207 sad pookysgirl

prayers from down here by the Bay.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (gbOdA)

And the Pacific Northwest.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB)

208 198 I forget, how much am I paying for Medicare? Oh yeah, I forgot that I paid into it for all my working years, and now my wife and I are paying $400/month in retirement premiums.

But do bitch on ObamaCare moochers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (wBaIH)

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Well, that's the thing about welfare programs. You don't pay into them. You are taxed for their current upkeep.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

209 On the bright side Hunter's personal computer has well over $15 billion worth of CP. Just not to Asians

Posted by: GKWVE at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (RluLT)

210 200 They've already got at least two Avengers movies coming out, and supposedly a sequel to F4. Plus probably more shit I don't know about. I expect at least a dozen superhero movies out in the next two years, if you include all the IP.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Zootopia 2 making a billion dollars in 5 minutes helps keep things afloat in the film side-business of the cruise line that is Disney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

211 They've already got at least two Avengers movies coming out, and supposedly a sequel to F4. Plus probably more shit I don't know about. I expect at least a dozen superhero movies out in the next two years, if you include all the IP.

The studios are still throwing oceans of money after returns, but they just aren't there. At some point, someone with a brain has got to say "enough".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (Riz8t)

212 205 Who gives a crap what Hunter thinks? Is he some kind of celebrity? How many movies has he been in?

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (EMg+d)

Doing shots means different things to different people...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

213 Biden could ask his buddy Oblamo if he could have a corner piece of his monstrostity hunk of shit in Chicago. It would definitely be fitting for two of the worst Presidents in US history to share the ugliest Presidential library in US history.

Yeah, 81 million votes my aching ass.

Posted by: Cheri at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (oiNtH)

214 183 Well, I like Asian chicks when they're not too loud and crabby, and when they don't stab any of my family members,

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👀

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (znfsz)

215 Joe needs to put Hunter in charge of the library. The Hunter gets Obama to have some bathroom stalls in his library stocked with dirty magazines & comic books

Posted by: Dave at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (sbsMc)

216 Three is no such thing as Obamacare insurance. All insurance is Obamacare insurance. The law specifies pricing and what each policy has to cover. Which is why you get idiocy like a single man buying health insurance is covered for obgyn services. But there is no policy available without that coverage.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (UJWr0)

217 In all his time in Washington the only thing Biden did well, and unquestionably succeeded at doing, was stealing the 2020 election.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (nHscG)

I disagree. Biden didn't steal the elction because he was already suffering the effects of dementia. No, he was installed as a good little puppet easily led by an ice cream cone.

Who were President Auto Pen?

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (gKDq2)

218 Well, that's the thing about welfare programs. You don't pay into them. You are taxed for their current upkeep.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
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Or, in the case of Medicare, a small part of the current upkeep. Medicare taxes are laughably tiny compared to the cost of the program.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (avHHk)

219 How many absolute cratering bombs have there been in sci fi movies in the last 5 years? You can count the successes on one hand. Nobody thinks sci fi is dead, though. I wonder why?

The hottest genre over the last few years seems to be horror. Not that there aren't crappy horror movies, but if you want something recent that isn't a crap sequel, prequel, or reimagining it seems the safest choice.

SF comes in second.

Comedy is mostly dead. Drama/Thrillers are mostly dead.

Its the oddest thing.

20 years ago Hollywood made interesting movies of different genres and you could find an interesting new movie at least once a month in theaters...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

220 This Asian lady is extremely relieved that Hunter Biden isn't in to her kind:
http://tiny.cc/azsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (avHHk)
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Looks Korean to me. TBWB.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

221 Well, that's the thing about welfare programs. You don't pay into them. You are taxed for their current upkeep.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

Tee hee.
- Social Security

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (UJWr0)

222 This is actually a core problem with superhero movies, generally everything goes back to the way it was before the movie started so what was the point?

People say that but its the template for every action movie. I mean, how many James Bond movies end with everything different? The only one I can think of is the last one and it sucked.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (3Amc7)

223 219 20 years ago Hollywood made interesting movies of different genres and you could find an interesting new movie at least once a month in theaters...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

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Interesting data point...

Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

224 Which is why you get idiocy like a single man buying health insurance is covered for obgyn services. But there is no policy available without that coverage.

If we had an opposition party and not just Trump this is something they'd be talking about endlessly.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

225 The more I think about that Ben Sasse situation the more annoyed I get. Lots of celebrities take the Norm McDonald route and don't reveal terminal illnesses to random people all over the internet. Doing so is (absent some clear message like "get screened, because if I had caught this earlier I might not be about to die") a pretty clear play for attention. For Sasse to then bath himself in religiousity as well is a bit icky too, to be honest. I tire of Mike Pence types who do nothing to help Christians but are happy to engage in religiosity when it suits them.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (UdiE9)

226 Presuming you want kids, the modern idea of marrying so late is insane. Yes you get to "play the field" in your 20s and in most cases I don't think that is the reward most younger women are told it is...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

Considering that a good number of guys have started ruling out party girls... no, probably not. Still, lots of women on tiktok telling young women that real men want women who've slept with hundreds of other guys.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

227 Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.
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What do they like?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (pLaQB)

228 Interesting data point...

Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

Duh. Taking a girl out to the movies is the new "netflix and chill", Grandpa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (06Hmj)

229 How many millions would it take to fabricate a library sign for Cadaver Joe's garage where he parks his 1967 corvette stingray?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (nljXp)

230 Jasmine Crockett / Hunter Biden 2028!

"It's our turn now, B*tches!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (0sNs1)

231 They've already got at least two Avengers movies coming out, and supposedly a sequel to F4. Plus probably more shit I don't know about. I expect at least a dozen superhero movies out in the next two years, if you include all the IP.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Zootopia 2 making a billion dollars in 5 minutes helps keep things afloat in the film side-business of the cruise line that is Disney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
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It's insane that cute anthropomorphic animals are a multi-billion dollar business, but I can't get an agent to even read my manuscript starring ... cute anthropomorphic animals.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

232 Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.

Looking at my younger relatives, when they go to the theaters it is to watch something made in Japan...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

233 >>> Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library.' Raised exactly $0 in new donations in all of 2024.

But they told us Biden was more popular than Jesus ... Or Trump at least.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (/lPRQ)

234 University of Pennsylvania should name a broom closet after him. Fvckers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (A0sqA)

235 Or, in the case of Medicare, a small part of the current upkeep. Medicare taxes are laughably tiny compared to the cost of the program.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (avHHk)

But account for all the people who pay Medicare taxes for 20 or 30 years and die before they’re eligible. Or die within a year or two of becoming eligible.

If you live to 90, Medicare and SS are pretty good deals. If you live to 68? Ya got fucked.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (UJWr0)

236 I haven't been in years.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (5DEFi)

237 Looking at my younger relatives, when they go to the theaters it is to watch something made in Japan...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (sKqQm)
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Doesn't matter to the theater owners.

Expect more imports, more coordinated live events (concerts, etc.), more alternative programming in general.

Hollywood is dying, but the theaters presumably want to avoid going down with them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:23 PM (avHHk)

238 I like the tier pricing of corporate jobs insurance. Same coverage but 3x the cost. To be fair to the entry level peeps.

Posted by: NCKate at December 23, 2025 03:23 PM (uQzkA)

239 25 % more than zero.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:23 PM (5DEFi)

240 If you live to 90, Medicare and SS are pretty good deals. If you live to 68? Ya got fucked.
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Its funny that all the Medical Insurance I paid into was finally used for me and mine instead of those chicks who were always going to the doctor.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (pLaQB)

241 Three is no such thing as Obamacare insurance. All insurance is Obamacare insurance. The law specifies pricing and what each policy has to cover. Which is why you get idiocy like a single man buying health insurance is covered for obgyn services. But there is no policy available without that coverage.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (UJWr0)

There is, it's just a PITA to find.

https://tinyurl.com/4vhzc7sh+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (ExV1e)

242 Interesting data point...

Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

Duh. Taking a girl out to the movies is the new "netflix and chill", Grandpa.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (06Hmj)
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It's now much harder for anyone under 21 to get into bars or buy booze. So if you're under 21, and want to go on a date or hang out somewhere, the movies are an appealing option. I'm Gen X. I was sneaking into Manhattan bars and clubs since I was 14. That's not possible any more.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

243 When someone mentions Mike Pence, my rage-o-meter hits eleventy.

What a run-of-the-mill, butt-kissing, cowardly, boring, half-wit, lying, fake Christian.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (aZm/F)

244 But account for all the people who pay Medicare taxes for 20 or 30 years and die before they’re eligible. Or die within a year or two of becoming eligible.

If you live to 90, Medicare and SS are pretty good deals. If you live to 68? Ya got fucked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (UJWr0)
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People who "paid in" to Medicare and died before taking advantage of it don't change the reality that Medicare is so deeply underwater that most people would need to die before using it to make it balance.

There is "paying in." There is just cash in and cash out, and Medicare is disastrously negative on its cashflow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (avHHk)

245 Still, lots of women on tiktok telling young women that real men want women who've slept with hundreds of other guys.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I see no downside

Posted by: Prince Harry at December 23, 2025 03:25 PM (mmFQG)

246 People say that but its the template for every action movie. I mean, how many James Bond movies end with everything different? The only one I can think of is the last one and it sucked.

Well, compare the MCU generation of movies that ended with Thanos and the time travel shenigans. The world is basically the same.

Then compare it to LotR where they also had a grand battle to save the world. They saved the world...but it was changed because of it...and most of the characters have changed as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

247 It's now much harder for anyone under 21 to get into bars or buy booze. So if you're under 21, and want to go on a date or hang out somewhere, the movies are an appealing option. I'm Gen X. I was sneaking into Manhattan bars and clubs since I was 14. That's not possible any more.
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This is what killed Rock n Roll.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (pLaQB)

248 Marry Sue Palpatine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (5DEFi)

249 In the days before Obamacare I used to have catastrophic insurance. It was dirt cheap like $75/mo. It didn’t cover anything and had a $20k deductible. It was basically the “if I get really sick I won’t go bankrupt” policy. As I was generally healthy I just paid out of pocket the odd time I had to see a doctor. Worked great for me.

Obamacare got rid of those. Now every policy has to cover everything including flu shots. And weirdly they now cost $1000/mo for what used to cost $100/mo.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (UJWr0)

250 and Medicare is disastrously negative on its cashflow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: USPS, no longer giving a rat's @$$ about rain, sleet, nor snow at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (0sNs1)

251 Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl

Prayers you and yours.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (kfTpm)

252 Presuming you want kids, the modern idea of marrying so late is insane. Yes you get to "play the field" in your 20s and in most cases I don't think that is the reward most younger women are told it is...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

Considering that a good number of guys have started ruling out party girls... no, probably not. Still, lots of women on tiktok telling young women that real men want women who've slept with hundreds of other guys.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (ExV1e)
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I think if you're a young lady, the last person on Earth you want to take advice from is a TTHOT. These TT "influencers" are mostly mentally ill, bitter lunatics that do not have any other women's best interests in mind.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

253 Doesn't matter to the theater owners.

No, but my point is the younger generation is rejecting Hollywood even if they are still going to theaters.

And the funny thing is these Japanese movies aren't really doing much new storywise - they've reverted to what Hollywood used to do, with a lot of standard hero's journey type stuff and a focus on character development instead of woke plot points.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (sKqQm)

254 In the days before Obamacare I used to have catastrophic insurance. It was dirt cheap like $75/mo. It didn’t cover anything and had a $20k deductible. It was basically the “if I get really sick I won’t go bankrupt” policy. As I was generally healthy I just paid out of pocket the odd time I had to see a doctor. Worked great for me. ...
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (UJWr0)
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You just described insurance. Insurance doesn't really exist anymore. Insurance has been replaced entirely with cost-sharing schemes - where all of the prices are hidden. Great idea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (avHHk)

255 Apparently he also claims there was no Hunter Biden Laptop.

Whatever, you drug added chimp.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Tzo3c)

256 >>> Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library.' Raised exactly $0 in new donations in all of 2024.
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But they told us Biden was more popular than Jesus ... Or Trump at least.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (/lPRQ)

More votes than Chocolate Jesus in 2008. Obama had 69,500,000 votes to Biden's 81,200,000. A phantom 12 or so million votes at minimum for Dementia Joe.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (gKDq2)

257 I’ve always told anyone who will listen do not get married before 30. The person you are at 30 vs 20 is completely different. Wait until 30 and then you will know what you want in life, kids? Marriage, etc.

Don’t get married at 24 and then wake up 5 years later regretting it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (UJWr0)

258 Insurance has been replaced entirely with cost-sharing schemes - where all of the prices are hidden. Great idea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (avHHk)

During his first term, Trump tried to introduce medical price transparency. Apparently, experts say that's a bad thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (ExV1e)

259 ... And the funny thing is these Japanese movies aren't really doing much new storywise - they've reverted to what Hollywood used to do, with a lot of standard hero's journey type stuff and a focus on character development instead of woke plot points.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (sKqQm)
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Shocking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (avHHk)

260 More votes than Chocolate Jesus in 2008. Obama had 69,500,000 votes to Biden's 81,200,000. A phantom 12 or so million votes at minimum for Dementia Joe.

It is comical. Against Trump...so the same opponent each time...the left claims they were more excited for Joe F'ing Biden then the first woman president or the first Indian woman president. And as you note more votes then for the Lightbringer

Really?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (sKqQm)

261 During his first term, Trump tried to introduce medical price transparency. Apparently, experts say that's a bad thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (ExV1e)
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Of course it is. Makes it much harder to steal a quarter of the economy if you post prices.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (avHHk)

262 last person on Earth you want to take advice from is a TTHOT. These TT "influencers" are mostly mentally ill, bitter lunatics that do not have any other women's best interests in mind./i]

Nobody hates women like other women

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (3Amc7)

263 More votes than Chocolate Jesus in 2008. Obama had 69,500,000 votes to Biden's 81,200,000. A phantom 12 or so million votes at minimum for Dementia Joe.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (gKDq2)

And the wingnuts are STILL trying to figure out where that 12 million went in 2024.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

264 Nationalize healthcare.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (5DEFi)

265 You just described insurance. Insurance doesn't really exist anymore. Insurance has been replaced entirely with cost-sharing schemes - where all of the prices are hidden. Great idea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (avHHk)

Car insurance still works like that. Car insurance doesn’t pay for oil changes or tires. But health insurance for some reason has to pay for flu shots. It’s insanity.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (UJWr0)

266 260 It is comical. Against Trump...so the same opponent each time...the left claims they were more excited for Joe F'ing Biden then the first woman president or the first Indian woman president. And as you note more votes then for the Lightbringer

Really?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (sKqQm)

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"Hatred of Trump animated us to turn out."

"Okay...so what are you going to do in 2028 when Trump isn't on the ticket?"

"Treat Vance like George W. Bush, when we couldn't animate people to come out at the same levels?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

267 During his first term, Trump tried to introduce medical price transparency. Apparently, experts say that's a bad thing.

Because it would clearly show the free rider problem.

Was do healthcare institutions price gouge you for things if you have a job and private health insurance? Well, they have to make up for all those illegals and FSA types that aren't paying a dime or have uncle sugar under pay on their behalf

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

268 255 Apparently he also claims there was no Hunter Biden Laptop.

Whatever, you drug added chimp.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Tzo3c)

There wasn't; it was more than one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (ynpvh)

269 I’ve always told anyone who will listen do not get married before 30. The person you are at 30 vs 20 is completely different. Wait until 30 and then you will know what you want in life, kids? Marriage, etc.

I think the opposite. Why? Because having babies is exhausting and you need that young energy to pull off all the sleepless nights and day long work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (3Amc7)

270 A Vance v Newsom campaign would be fascinating.

Some poor boy done good or the scion of one of CA's four families?

But the FNM will tell us Newsom is for "the little people"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

271 Off limey sock

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (mmFQG)

272 "... Allow In Immigrants That "Drain Our Resources""

Or pollute our precious bodily fluids.

Fluoride is a Communist plot!

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (qFwJc)

273 Yeah it’s nuts that you go into a hospital or any medical center and have no idea what anything will cost. It could be $200 it could be $20,000. You only find out 2 months later when the bill comes. A bill that’s 4 pages long with codes and abbreviations that nobody understands.

This would not be tolerated by consumers in any other industry.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (UJWr0)

274 270 A Vance v Newsom campaign would be fascinating.

Some poor boy done good or the scion of one of CA's four families?

But the FNM will tell us Newsom is for "the little people"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

Fairies?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)

275 Corrected:

In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden's library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his "so called' presidency.

In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden's library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency "in name only."

Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at December 23, 2025 03:34 PM (ufJfM)

276 Yeah it’s nuts that you go into a hospital or any medical center and have no idea what anything will cost. It could be $200 it could be $20,000. You only find out 2 months later when the bill comes. A bill that’s 4 pages long with codes and abbreviations that nobody understands.

This would not be tolerated by consumers in any other industry.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (UJWr0)
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It wouldn't be legal in any other industry. It may not technically be legal in medicine, but everyone pretends that law doesn't exist (except HIPAA) when it comes to medicine. It's Calvinball.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:34 PM (avHHk)

277 But the FNM will tell us Newsom is for "the little people"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

*shoulder shimmy shoulder shimmy*

Posted by: Gavin Newsom's Sign Language Interpreter, who will need a Chiropractor after all this at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (yZSOm)

278 In an ideal world people would get married early - right out of HS or so, and then have however many kids they want to have.

Medically it is safer and you'd have the energy still to take care of them. There are many stressed out career women trying to raise a kid or two at 35+ and of course you are going to be exhausted.

But we tell women having kids early means they'll miss out on fun AND of course we've created an economy where they'd have to marry a man 10 years older to have some financial stability.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

279 Hunter says Afghan bugout was a failure and illegal immigration is not good?

He is definitely running for president. Not sure which party though.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (Dv3i1)

280 Fairies?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)

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hahahaahahaha Well, he is a fricken ponce.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (aZm/F)

281 U.S. leaving Afghanistan was the best thing we ever did! Now if only we would end the military and the State Department! We won’t have a national debt anymore if we do that, and I am TIRED of being the world’s policeman!!!

Oops, gotta go, Mandarin class starts early today!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 23, 2025 03:36 PM (Wv0GD)

282 And who in the media is challenging him on the laptop claims.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:36 PM (oHAzj)

283 Yeah it’s nuts that you go into a hospital or any medical center and have no idea what anything will cost. It could be $200 it could be $20,000. You only find out 2 months later when the bill comes. A bill that’s 4 pages long with codes and abbreviations that nobody understands.

This would not be tolerated by consumers in any other industry.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (UJWr0)
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I have a simple solution: don't pay it. I had some medical issues over the last few years, one of which required a long hospital stay.

For months afterwards, I was getting big bills (one was $5,000) from at least half a dozen vague medical companies with vague billing statements. I never paid them a dime.

I reasoned that they got whatever they got from my insurance, and if illegal vermin aren't paying then why should I? So I didn't. Sure, they called and sent bill collectors after me, but I told them all to fuck off. They eventually gave up.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

284 Yeah it’s nuts that you go into a hospital or any medical center and have no idea what anything will cost. It could be $200 it could be $20,000. You only find out 2 months later when the bill comes. A bill that’s 4 pages long with codes and abbreviations that nobody understands.

One of the fascinating things to see is that the healthcare industry computerized and the benefits we consumers see are small. Why?

The government used the drive to computerize records and paperwork to demand MORE records and paperwork. The general belief 20 years ago is that all of that would go away and costs would go down significantly.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

285 I married young and never regretted it. Yeah, living paycheck to paycheck was tough. But we learned to rely on each other and just loved each other so much.

You want to blame Tylenol for autism? I have another cause.

Old eggs.

Counter evidence I must admit. My mother was 42 when I was born. I am still at the age of 70 trying to figure out how so many folks just cannot find a career and gainful employment. Clearly my mom's old eggs weren't all bad.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (qFwJc)

286 > Nationalize healthcare.

Absolutely not.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Yp6az)

287 278 In an ideal world people would get married early - right out of HS or so, and then have however many kids they want to have.

Sure. It takes two to tango, you forget, and if the women don’t want to marry…then what?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Wv0GD)

288 F. Joe Mugabe should have asked for 10% of the Somali fraud on his watch -- there's a couple billion there for his Presidential Outhouse.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (iEaco)

289 Sure. It takes two to tango, you forget, and if the women don’t want to marry…then what?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Wv0GD)
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Collapsing birth rates and surging wine futures?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (avHHk)

290 Did everyone hear how JEF's library isn't going to even have books? It's a liebrary. I think the plan is just to have various statues and altars for worshiping JEF and rooms for community organizin'. But no books of any kind. They're going to make all of that digital and put it online. Like the gift he gave the queen.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (3uBP9)

291 286 > Nationalize healthcare.

Absolutely not.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Yp6az)

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I'm certain he was trying to be funny.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (aZm/F)

292 The old ways are sometimes the best ways. It used to be there were 2 kinds of debts that could not be enforced in court.

Gambling and medical bills.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (qFwJc)

293 186 Oriental chicks can keep their looks with few wrinkles until age 48. Then they all look like some Mamasan working in a hand laundry. It happens overnight.

Hispanic ladies hit the wall age 28-33, depending on how much weight they gain. AOC hit the wall a couple years ago. Her haunches are enormous now. No longer the dancing coed from college. They also get serious fat around the middle.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)

The woman you love never ages. Once upon a time women used to try and grab a man before the wall hit. Some still do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ExV1e)

I still haven't hit that wall, and I am a blond Scots/Irish/English/French hag. Sunscreen helps every day. Had I not tanned like a loon in my teens and early 20's I'd have avoided some skin cancer along the way.

When you find someone who still tells you that you don't need make up as a grandmother, he's the one! I still feel the same about him as well...love deepens with your wrinkles and flaws.

They are out there somewhere, boys and girls. Never settle!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (WONhk)

294 And is Hunter being slimed on SNL? Thats how you can tell if this has been greenlit

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (oHAzj)

295 Mmm, train hot dogs with train mustard and train relish.
.....

forget the train relish.... train ketchup!

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

296 F. Joe Mugabe should have asked for 10% of the Somali fraud on his watch -- there's a couple billion there for his Presidential Outhouse.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (iEaco)

Perfect. We will request a sign for the TxMoMe:

The Biden Presidential Library

And mount it by the porta-potties.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

297 Sure. It takes two to tango, you forget, and if the women don’t want to marry…then what?

That's the issue really.

I remember some female CEO got in trouble a few years ago mentioning at a college commencement speech that if you want to have kids the graduates should plan on finding a husband and having those kids soon and she was dammed as the second coming of Hitler or Osama...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

298 More votes than Chocolate Jesus in 2008
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Chocolate Jesus or Milk Chocolate Jesus. What does the AoS style guide say is preferred?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

299 Was do healthcare institutions price gouge

What is a “healthcare institution”? (I have no health for which to care so I truly have no idea.)

“Price gouging” is a phrase used by the economically illiterate. We should not forget that inflation is high in the medical industry due to massive government intervention.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (Wv0GD)

300 Hunter Biden is the Cash Me Outside Girl of Democrat Perioeki

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (06Hmj)

301 Hunter says Afghan bugout was a failure and illegal immigration is not good?

He is definitely running for president. Not sure which party though.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
.....

The All Night Hookers and Blow Party.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

302
Chocolate Jesus or Milk Chocolate Jesus. What does the AoS style guide say is preferred?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

His momma was lily white........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

303 There was some magazine article about JEF's liebrary fall or winter, kind of recent. That's where they went into how it will have no books. Even the leftist authors of the piece had a hard time masturbating over it, but eventually managed.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

304 I love asking the "nationalize healthcare" people if they like the service they get from the IRS...then ask why they'd want the same service for their health care.

Or, better yet, "Should Donald Trump be the person that controls what healthcare you get? Because as head of the executive he would also head whatever federal healthcare agency we have. You know that right? REEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

305 Sure. It takes two to tango, you forget, and if the women don’t want to marry…then what?

That's the issue really.

I remember some female CEO got in trouble a few years ago mentioning at a college commencement speech that if you want to have kids the graduates should plan on finding a husband and having those kids soon and she was dammed as the second coming of Hitler or Osama...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
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Screeching childless cat ladies want more screeching childless cat ladies ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

306 I love asking the "nationalize healthcare" people if they like the service they get from the IRS...then ask why they'd want the same service for their health care.

Use the DMV for a more localized experience.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

307 It is funny that Obama is "black" when he has one white and one black parent.

Of course Kamala was "black" when she had one Indian parent and one half white/black parent

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

308 When I say "young" I mean I was 22 and she was 20. I had good prospects (I was a senior at UCSD with a Computer Science major).

Her Dad thought I was great.

Just last year, one of her shitbag brothers (she had 2 shitbag brothers) told me how much he always admired me. Hey asshole, I could have used the encouragement 40 years ago.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (qFwJc)

309 It is rather amazing even with the media fully in the democrats corner that the public allows the democrats to Jedi Mind Trick them like this every f**king time.

Watch Newsome will come out as a border hawk and the public will nod along.

All without the media force multipliers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (XV/Pl)

310 Obama's library brought to you by the letter N.

For "No Books".

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:43 PM (oHAzj)

311 305
...

Screeching childless cat ladies want more screeching childless cat ladies ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

If they ain't makin' the babies, they have to indoctrinate the kids of those havin' the babies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:43 PM (ynpvh)

312 "I’ve always told anyone who will listen do not get married before 30."

A woman who marries at 30 has five years before egg quality drops dramatically.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 23, 2025 03:43 PM (JCLJi)

313 264 Nationalize healthcare.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (5DEFi)

I have no health for which to care.

I have zero interest in nationalizing the medical industry. Because if you want it to TRULY suck, have a completely uncompetitive medical sector. And contrary to the propaganda, it isn’t working so well in Canada. Which is why murder is perfectly legal in Canada now, so long as the doc does it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (Wv0GD)

314 "Youth" means black.

Posted by: Public Service Announcement at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (SzjyL)

315
There's no Obama presidential library either. They raised hundreds of millions of dollars and squandered it destroying a park to put in a crumbling concrete flak tower with a nightclub on every floor and no books or records whatsoever.

Obama's staff, like Biden's, don't want to provide a record of what they did.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (VWtfl)

316 >>>Sure. It takes two to tango, you forget, and if the women don’t want to marry…then what?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Wv0GD)
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Collapsing birth rates and surging wine futures?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

>Or women want to marry, but don't want to have kids or get a job. Which is worse?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (nljXp)

317 He's got that personality disorder (Cluster B?), that kind of pathological awfulness, where he will say literally anything if it means ingratiating himself to whoever he's talking to.

Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD)

If he was acting out rather than just saying whatever pleases who he is speaking to, then maybe it could be a Histrionic PD.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (a4flb)

318 Kumswala's parents:

https://is.gd/4JJBrU

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

319 His momma was lily white........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

***

The Mocha Messiah's Momma was also a Hoor

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (Bo9Yf)

320 This is nonsense. Joe Biden can still combine a bookmobile with an ice-cream truck. There is no reason Joe Biden has to settle for just a bookmobile. He can operate a fleet of ice cream trucks! Republicans need to think big!

Posted by: wferrin at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (QuNOR)

321 It is rather amazing even with the media fully in the democrats corner that the public allows the democrats to Jedi Mind Trick them like this every f**king time.

Watch Newsome will come out as a border hawk and the public will nod along.

All without the media force multipliers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (XV/Pl)

R's allow it

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (oHAzj)

322 And contrary to the propaganda, it isn’t working so well in Canada. Which is why murder is perfectly legal in Canada now, so long as the doc does it.

I was reading the story of one guy who had some difficult to deal with health issue and they put him on a long wait list to see a specialist. But he started getting emails from their euthanasia department telling him there was not wait line for their services.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

323 You want to blame Tylenol for autism? I have another cause.

Old eggs.

I think that does play a part. That and pumping every kid full of drugs to calm them down in class. And grossly over-diagnosing both autism and ADHD, without allowing for a natural range of natures and personalities.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (3Amc7)

324 Funny how Hunter is no longer on any executive boards.

Posted by: Hunh at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (SzjyL)

325 315
There's no Obama presidential library either. They raised hundreds of millions of dollars and squandered it destroying a park to put in a crumbling concrete flak tower with a nightclub on every floor and no books or records whatsoever.

Obama's staff, like Biden's, don't want to provide a record of what they did.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (VWtfl)

Is Barky still holding on to all those records the National Archives needs, or is the NA still allowing him to hold all those records?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (ynpvh)

326 Will a Biden library be stuffed to the gills with those fucking cue cards made up to keep him from a stammering brain freeze?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

YOU can pay for YOUR own fucking library from the money YOU stole

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (cOh05)

327 “Price gouging” is a phrase used by the economically illiterate. We should not forget that inflation is high in the medical industry due to massive government intervention.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (Wv0GD)

"rentier class" is not understood generally, either, even though that explains what the government is supporting, instead of patients and providers.

(Rentier class short, street definition: a level of intermediaries between suppliers and consumers who have managed to get themselves into a position of saying "f___ you, pay me" and has sufficient leg-breaking support to make it stick)

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (rbvCR)

328 >>> Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (WONhk)

All 'ettes are axiomatically** beautiful.

** Greek in origin meaning, Damn Straight!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (3uBP9)

329 No wait to be killed would have been a good Soviet Union era Healthcare joke.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (oHAzj)

330 I found out another thing. The older we get the more set in our ways. A 20-22 year old wife is malleable. A 22-24 year old man is too, being willing to change to please his beloved.

As each year passes, neither one is willing to change.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (qFwJc)

331 319 His momma was lily white........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

***

The Mocha Messiah's Momma was also a Hoor

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (Bo9Yf)

As much as Mom?

Posted by: Justin Trudeau at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

332 His momma was lily white........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

And he had a "typical white grandmother," too.

Not sure how many grandmas are VPs at banks but whatever.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (gKDq2)

333 Or women want to marry, but don't want to have kids or get a job. Which is worse?

I was wondering about that earlier today.

Many men need a reason to keep going. The Why Am I Here issue, and many see themselves as Providers, or the Guy That Gets Things Done.

What motivates such a woman who doesn't have kids a/o a job to get out of bed? Or is that the reason why they spend so much time on-line, in the bottle (pill or wine) or just being public assholes?

The retired men I know have to do something. Just sitting around doesn't work.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (a4flb)

334 Note Hunter has revealed what Democrats believe hurt them the most last election.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)

335 334 Note Hunter has revealed what Democrats believe hurt them the most last election.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)

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Note: Democrat suppressed the report that told them this because their donors and voters will not support the party actually going back on any issue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

336 ...started getting emails from their euthanasia department telling him there was not wait line for their services.
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One service is just like another when you are just a widget being processed. Congrats, Canada on achieving National Health Care!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)

337 As each year passes, neither one is willing to change.

Outside spiritual sanctification.

From a materialists view:
Maybe as a man's T levels lower and a woman around menopause - they change.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (a4flb)

338 Many men need a reason to keep going. The Why Am I Here issue, and many see themselves as Providers, or the Guy That Gets Things Done.

Its a not uncommon sentiment I've seen from men I know personally and online "why do I get out of bed in the morning? My family needs me" or the somewhat darker "why didn't I end myself when things went bad? I'm not leaving my family to deal with that on their own"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

339 LOL. Women who don't want kids or a job.

Prostitution.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (qFwJc)

340 Huh. The nudes of the Owebama Momma are harder to find then they used to be.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

341 334 Note Hunter has revealed what Democrats believe hurt them the most last election.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)

Not Sniffy Joe's senility and full depends, not Kumswalla's word salads...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

342 Note Hunter has revealed what Democrats believe hurt them the most last election.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)

=====

Note: Democrat suppressed the report that told them this because their donors and voters will not support the party actually going back on any issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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But the Dums sent out a fat latina dyke to talk to frat boys. Progress!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

343 "We need vibrant immigration," he

...claimed without evidence. Maybe this is their new fallback position.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (dfgzq)

344
Counter evidence I must admit. My mother was 42 when I was born. I am still at the age of 70 trying to figure out how so many folks just cannot find a career and gainful employment. Clearly my mom's old eggs weren't all bad.
Posted by: no one

They just never had the heart to tell you that you were adopted, is all.

Posted by: Unwed Mothers Home at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (oftw2)

345 The Biden library needs to be an outhouse with a stack of coloring books.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (8CIFn)

346
As much as Mom?
Posted by: Justin Trudeau at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

Nah. I'm betting Trudeau is one that always refers to his mom as "mother."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

347 Is a dude that cavorts with underage Ukrainian hookers considered to be "successful with women"? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bunter Hiden at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (vqA1l)

348 342 But the Dums sent out a fat latina dyke to talk to frat boys. Progress!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

======

They spent, what was it, $30 million on her.

And I think they hired her for some other position afterwards.

When the VA governor's election ends up not predictive of the 2026 midterms, some people are going to be real surprised.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

349 My Mom was 38 and my dad was 53 when I was born. And I'm perfectly normal, incredibly socially adjusted. I couldn't even imagine doing, saying, or writing awkward things in public venues.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (3uBP9)

350 LOL. Women who don't want kids or a job.

I ran across a video showing how various B list celebs died. They included some pron stars. The female ones were all: drugs, alcohol, suicide or murder.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

351 "We need vibrant immigration,"

No we f*cking don't. Not at all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

352 343 "We need vibrant immigration," he

...claimed without evidence. Maybe this is their new fallback position.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (dfgzq)

=======

I think it's just base code of 99% of people who want to get into politics.

Immigration is good. The only question is: how good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

353 350 LOL. Women who don't want kids or a job.

I ran across a video showing how various B list celebs died. They included some pron stars. The female ones were all: drugs, alcohol, suicide or murder.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

Their lifestyles are NOT conducive to dying of old age...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:52 PM (ynpvh)

354 "We need vibrant immigration,"

A latest talking point I have with lefties:

Just think if we didn't have vibrant and diverse immigration policies we'd have to deal with catastrophes like another $9B to spend on health care in America. Obviously that would be terrible right?

REEEE RACIST REEE!!!!!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

355 You want to blame Tylenol for autism? I have another cause.

Old eggs.

Genetic Entropy. The older you get the more mutations you acquire. When procreating, there is no reset, your spawn get whatever mutations you have at the time of fertilization.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (a4flb)

356 It is funny that Obama is "black" when he has one white and one black parent.

Of course Kamala was "black" when she had one Indian parent and one half white/black parent
Posted by: 18-1
.....

Did they figure out what a woman is yet?

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

357 354 "We need vibrant immigration,"

A latest talking point I have with lefties:

Just think if we didn't have vibrant and diverse immigration policies we'd have to deal with catastrophes like another $9B to spend on health care in America. Obviously that would be terrible right?

REEEE RACIST REEE!!!!!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

Is this like a vibrant and diverse debt?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

358 What is more vibrant than burning white phosphorus?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (5DEFi)

359 257 Is this like a vibrant and diverse debt?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

======

"Is there any single person the American people can say is not allowed into the nation?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

360 358 What is more vibrant than burning white phosphorus?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (5DEFi)

Tsar Bomba?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

361 The amazing story about the wisdom of Solomon was that the prostitutes wanted the child.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (qFwJc)

362 The white ones.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (5DEFi)

363 t is funny that Obama is "black" when he has one white and one black parent.

Of course Kamala was "black" when she had one Indian parent and one half white/black parent
Posted by: 18-1

And wasn't the 'black' in her family Jamaican and NOT African-American? Not that I know the history of Jamacia or how it came to be......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

364 349 My Mom was 38 and my dad was 53 when I was born. And I'm perfectly normal, incredibly socially adjusted. I couldn't even imagine doing, saying, or writing awkward things in public venues.
Posted by: banana Dream

I guess posting defecatory intimacies is totes normal in some twisted timeline.

Posted by: Greman Scat Alliance at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (oftw2)

365 "We need vibrant immigration,"

We don't have immigration, we have an invasion. Huge difference.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (a4flb)

366 LOL. Women who don't want kids or a job.

...vote for grifters like Mamdani

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (3Amc7)

367 >>>Is a dude that cavorts with underage Ukrainian hookers considered to be "successful with women"? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bunter Hiden

>Crack cocaine is a powerful catalyst.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (nljXp)

368 Women who don't want kids or a job.

I ran across a video showing how various B list celebs died. They included some pron stars. The female ones were all: drugs, alcohol, suicide or murder.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

Their lifestyles are NOT conducive to dying of old age...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:52 PM (ynpvh)
______

I've watched some documentaries on the porn industry and interviews of former porn stars. It's a brutal, sleazy, dangerous industry that I can't believe it actually legal. A very very few women get out without serious physical and/or mental damage. Most end up junkie wrecks. The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

369 Well, looks like Trump's gotten the go ahead to send in the Marines to protect federal buildings in American cities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

370 The Biden library needs to be an outhouse with a stack of coloring books.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA
......

Then somebody might actually go there.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

371 "Is there any single person the American people can say is not allowed into the nation?"
____

Easy, white South African farmers being driven off their stolen land. By people stealing their land.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:57 PM (Dv3i1)

372 And wasn't the 'black' in her family Jamaican and NOT African-American? Not that I know the history of Jamacia or how it came to be......

They got their the same way American black people did - the Europeans brought them as slaves and then freed them. In the case of Kammy's family though her father was a member of the Jamaican elite - he was a well known college prof. And the white side of her family were slave traders originally...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

373 A very very few women get out without serious physical and/or mental damage. Most end up junkie wrecks. The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

70's star Harry Reams went on to a reasonably successful commercial real estate career in Utah. I'm guessing he went back to his birth name.

Just don't know if he shaved his mustache to go 'incognito.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

374 "Is there any single person the American people can say is not allowed into the nation?"

First of all, we are NOT a nation, a nation has common values, culture, heritage, traditions, language and ethics.

The US has NONE of that. We are barely a country, and only because Trump has done something with the borders.

The US technically is an Economic Opportunity Zone.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (a4flb)

375 Well, looks like Trump's gotten the go ahead to send in the Marines to protect federal buildings in American cities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
______

Any hot lady Marines are welcome at my place. I don't need any protection ... well, not that kind.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

376 308 When I say "young" I mean I was 22 and she was 20. I had good prospects (I was a senior at UCSD with a Computer Science major).

Her Dad thought I was great.
....................
We were 22yrs when we met and 24yrs when we married. My father loved him the first time they met. Thrilled for anyone to take me off his hands.

The first year he broke up with me for no reason as he was immature and, I guess, fell hard. I put no pressure on him. Would have rather died than chased him or wept. Something finally dawned on him that the grass was not greener (Matthew McConaughey starred in a movie about my lady killer boyfriend, "Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past"). It was his idea to marry, not mine, as I was in no rush. Babies came two and 4 years later and all has been well, growing up together.

We knew before we were engaged that our politics, religion and having babies lined up. I am shocked when I hear a married woman say she wants kids and her husband does not. Wth? You had time to discuss all this!

I never tried to change him. On his own he went back to college because he knew I would not wait nor settle, without even asking me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (WONhk)

377
Here's an idea -- distribute the J'Blowme papers among a huge series of those fencepost libraries ("library-ettes") throughout Delaware. You know, the "leave one, take one" distribution model. Make sure they are close to the edge of derivable roads.

Then -- and this is the genius part -- put together a J'Blowme library-ettes' baseball tour. (Now admit it, you know where this is going.)

Participants drive hither and yon throughout Delaware, baseball bats in hand, and play a full nine inning game with the J'Blowme library-ettes. Some fun, huh?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 03:59 PM (xG4kz)

378 The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives.

There were a few male pron stars in the list there were a few were suicides but for them it was mostly HIV. So I assume these were gay male pron stars but I didn't bother to look them up...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

379 Do people here know who Caleb Hammer is? A thing with gen z/alpha.

LOL:
Hunter. It’s time.

Come.

x.com/sircalebhammer/status/
2003507184689381859

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (3uBP9)

380 The suicide rate of women in porn is astronomical. It's pretty high even among Playboy Playmates.

Posted by: Paige Young, Girl Friend Of Bill Cosby at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (oftw2)

381
... drivable roads ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (xG4kz)

382 Not Sniffy Joe's senility and full depends, not Kumswalla's word salads...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

Nope

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (oHAzj)

383 376
...
We knew before we were engaged that our politics, religion and having babies lined up. I am shocked when I hear a married woman say she wants kids and her husband does not. Wth? You had time to discuss all this!

I never tried to change him. On his own he went back to college because he knew I would not wait nor settle, without even asking me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (WONhk)

Indeed, or worse yet, say they want kids only to change their minds years later. Those years are lost for a woman. If you're dating for more than 5 years and not married, there may be a problem...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

384 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (oOIDm)

385 The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives.

There were a few male pron stars in the list there were a few were suicides but for them it was mostly HIV. So I assume these were gay male pron stars but I didn't bother to look them up...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)
____

"Unpossible!"

-- John Holmes

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (iFTx/)

386 There were a few male pron stars in the list there were a few were suicides but for them it was mostly HIV. So I assume these were gay male pron stars but I didn't bother to look them up...

There are just some things you don't want in your browser history that is being sold to every hustler.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (a4flb)

387 The name Hunter. Because Joe was a hunter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (5DEFi)

388
We knew before we were engaged that our politics, religion and having babies lined up. I am shocked when I hear a married woman say she wants kids and her husband does not. Wth? You had time to discuss all this!

I never tried to change him. On his own he went back to college because he knew I would not wait nor settle, without even asking me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (WONhk)

Wife has a cousin that married her high school sweetheart. They had discussed having a family and all that prior, but after they married, he changed his mind. They never had kids. She likely carries a lot of resentment towards that, but they're still married.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

389
"A very very few women get out without serious physical and/or mental damage. Most end up junkie wrecks. The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM"

The Paolo, has, how you say, a rather unique definition of, how you say, normal.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 23, 2025 04:02 PM (SzjyL)

390 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (oOIDm)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

391 390 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (oOIDm)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, he's a coprophagiac, and you are what you eat...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:03 PM (ynpvh)

392 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (a4flb)

Thanks for the upbeat view./sarc. It's not over till it's over. We have millions and millions who share the same values, or they probably wouldn't have voted for Trump twice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (8Xy/A)

393 Indeed, or worse yet, say they want kids only to change their minds years later. Those years are lost for a woman. If you're dating for more than 5 years and not married, there may be a problem...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

First Lady and I dated 7 years before we got married. She had the First Daughter at 32.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

394 Vince Zampella, co-founder of Infinity Ward and driving force behind Call of Duty and Modern Warfare killed himself by driving a Ferrari extremely recklessly and crashing. Video of the crash here:

http://tiny.cc/n0tw001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Yp6az)

395 During the conversation, the former president's son dismissed the so-called "laptop from hell," first reported by the New York Post in October 2020.

… yeah, that laptop that his lawyers wanted back

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (GITLP)

396 393 Indeed, or worse yet, say they want kids only to change their minds years later. Those years are lost for a woman. If you're dating for more than 5 years and not married, there may be a problem...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

First Lady and I dated 7 years before we got married. She had the First Daughter at 32.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Girlfriend of my late wife was in her early 30's, had dated a guy for more than 5 years just for him to say he wasn't interested in having children anymore. Five years when you're 18 is much different than 5 years when you're 30 in terms of having kids...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (ynpvh)

397 Vince Zampella, co-founder of Infinity Ward and driving force behind Call of Duty and Modern Warfare killed himself by driving a Ferrari extremely recklessly and crashing. Video of the crash here:

http://tiny.cc/n0tw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Yp6az)

"What a loss, man."

You misspelled dumbass. That was some of the worst driving I've every seen. Holy crap. Seems he learned to drive supercars on Grand Theft Auto V.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)

398 What laptop?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (5DEFi)

399 The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives."

See, The Patriarchy!!! REEE!!!

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (XuXeR)

400 > I am shocked when I hear a married woman say she wants kids and her husband does not. Wth? You had time to discuss all this!

My wife and I went though a book filled with questions like this before we married. We agreed on pretty much everything.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (Yp6az)

401 Modern Welfare. I remember that game.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:07 PM (5DEFi)

402 394 Vince Zampella
_____

We need common sense car control.

(RIP Vince)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (Dv3i1)

403 [Trumpzilla! "AI" Video with "captured" Venezuelan oil tankers:]

https://is.gd/qPercv

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (jvn5r)

404 81 Million Votes! Jack!

Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (cozDI)

405 Vince Zampella, co-founder of Infinity Ward and driving force behind Call of Duty and Modern Warfare killed himself by driving a Ferrari extremely recklessly and crashing.

He also committed vehicular manslaughter of his passenger, whom it seems, ate the cement barrier first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (Zz0t1)

406 What laptop?"

What's a laptop?

/70's pron stars

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:09 PM (XuXeR)

407 I have never driven one but I suspect driving a supercar like that takes special ability you cannot just hop in and demonstrate. Like, learning to drive again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 04:09 PM (3Amc7)

408 [Trumpzilla! "AI" Video with "captured" Venezuelan oil tankers:]

https://is.gd/qPercv

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (jvn5r)

I get a "page does not exist" error.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

409 Linky no worky.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:10 PM (5DEFi)

410 My wife and I went though a book filled with questions like this before we married. We agreed on pretty much everything.
Posted by: bonhomme

So did we. Now we're prayin' for the end of time.
- Meatloaf

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:10 PM (Dv3i1)

411 I like meatloaf. Not the bloated singer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (5DEFi)

412 > Modern Welfare

You made me think I misspelled Modern Warfare. I had to double check my post.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (Yp6az)

413 Did Ace forget to set the next post to auto=publish before installing more shelving?

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (UdiE9)

414 I suspect driving a supercar like that takes special ability you cannot just hop in and demonstrate."

You'd be surprised. Most (Carrera GT excepted) are fairly docile, as they have to be controllable at... high speeds. 100MPH in a Turbo 997 feels like... 40 in my son's truck.

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:12 PM (XuXeR)

415 Sad that every interview of Hunter Biden doesn't open with the question "Why did you bring cocaine into the White House, then leave it to be found later?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

416 Is everyone smashing refresh to try and beat The Blade?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)

417 Is everyone smashing refresh to try and beat The Blade?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)

Prolly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

418 One thing I always wondered is who got control of Joe's money when he kicks off. I was guessing 'Doctor' Jill. The fact that she got to control the Whitehouse seems pretty conclusive.

Then I wondered if Hunter's sniffing around Washington in 2023 was anti-arrest protection or if he was trying to crowbar more money out of Sleepy Joe. Five on one hand, half a ten on the other.

So maybe this interview was an opening salvo in another attempt at getting some more of that "Biden Foundation" payola out of Jill. "Nice pile of secret cash you got there, shame is someone told the public who paid it and why."

Posted by: JB1000 at December 23, 2025 04:15 PM (/gRa9)

419 Smashing with a blade? Like, you mean, garlic?

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:15 PM (XuXeR)

420 Well, he's a coprophagiac, and you are what you eat...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:03 PM (ynpvh)

Now, now, it's not his fault. With his head that far up his ass, the menu's a bit limited.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 04:16 PM (pIfcn)

421 @116 pookysgirl, condolences and God bless. Praying for you and yours

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 04:16 PM (2vrAX)

422 There is a Catholic youtuber and author by the name of Timothy Gordon.

He has a JD from USD.

His advice is simple. You date not to get laid. You date to find a spouse. If you are not sure after 8 months, move on.

In 4-8 months you should know.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:16 PM (qFwJc)

423 Now, now, it's not his fault. With his head that far up his ass, the menu's a bit limited."

That's not a centapede...

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:17 PM (XuXeR)

424 413 Did Ace forget to set the next post to auto=publish before installing more shelving?

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (UdiE9)

=====

There is no auto-publish on Minx 0.8 alpha.

Maybe in 0.9 beta.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

425 419 Smashing with a blade? Like, you mean, garlic?
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:15 PM (XuXeR)

I mean the dude slices like a f*ckin' hammer, so why not?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 04:17 PM (06Hmj)

426 Other good advice, don't ask her out for lunch. Dinner. She has to know that you are courting her.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:18 PM (qFwJc)

427 Sundowner had enough relatives on the dole so it won't go anywhere else

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:18 PM (Ia/+0)

428 He must've fallen asleep.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:19 PM (5DEFi)

429 I kind of wish "On the dole" were slang for "taking viagra".

It isn't.

But i wish it was.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 04:19 PM (06Hmj)

430 How did they close his casket?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:20 PM (5DEFi)

431 Is everyone smashing refresh to try and beat The Blade?

Nope; I don't care about being first to post. I think it's funniest when Sponge goes "First " and it's actually 205or something. I was considering WB or WNB after some picture of a boobette as Blade does, but that would be inauthentic of me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:21 PM (8Xy/A)

432 I was considering WB or WNB after some picture of a boobette as Blade does, but that would be inauthentic of me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:21 PM (8Xy/A)

You could start a whole 'nother alter-ego nic called "Fenelon's Poke" just to critique the subtler intricacies of the MannixBabes....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 04:23 PM (06Hmj)

433 Very late with no new post.

Am I forced to post twice on one thread?

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:23 PM (jNFIZ)

434 What motivates such a woman who doesn't have kids a/o a job to get out of bed?

The cats need to be fed (if you have cats), or the elderly parents need assistance, or that's the only way you're going to eat and keep a roof over your head because damn sure no one else is going to feed or house you.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (a+4eV)

435 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (SzjyL)

436 oh wait, that's women without kid or a husband and with a job.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (a+4eV)

437
Did Ace stroke out?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (TWzjC)

438 Oops. Wrong thread.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (SzjyL)

439
Well, looks like Trump's gotten the go ahead to send in the Marines to protect federal buildings in American cities.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to deploy National Guard members to the Chicago area while a legal challenge moves forward, delivering a setback to President Trump in his effort to use federalized troops in Illinois to ensure enforcement of federal immigration laws.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (pkeXY)

440 416 Is everyone smashing refresh to try and beat The Blade?
----------------
I got first the last two threads. It was not life-changing. I've observed that when Elric tries to get first (as he did earlier today) and fails, we get a respite from all of "The Blade is sharp!" nonsense for the rest of the day, or for at least a few hours.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (UdiE9)

441 Did Ace stroke out?

Is that what you kids are calling in nowadays?

Posted by: Billy Silly at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (Vu7A1)

442 Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 04:23 PM (06Hmj)

I could, but I wont. I think most of them are AI anyway and if I were a guy and they're real I wouldn't want to be dating a photo op girl anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (8Xy/A)

443 Drizzle-rain dark and cloudy enough count Dracula could walk the dog.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 04:26 PM (Kt19C)

444 Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (UdiE9)

"It's not life changing". I laughed. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:26 PM (8Xy/A)

445 147 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

So sorry... Sending hugs

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 04:27 PM (VE6XX)

446 413 Did Ace forget to set the next post to auto=publish before installing more shelving?

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (UdiE9)

He should wear a med-alert when working on shelves...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (ynpvh)

447 Aparently people are just copying and pasting the text from DOJ report pdfs on epstein and getting the unredacted text. Just black bars in an extra layer over the docs.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (3uBP9)

448 respite from all of "The Blade is sharp!"

respite from all of "The Blade is ghey!"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (Kt19C)

449
[SHOT:]
The Patriot Oasis™
@ThePatriotOasis

🚨BREAKING: FedEx wins multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract, uses funds to HIRE foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.

https://is.gd/wmXEnM

[CHASER:]

From the Indian Times --

Biggest mess, say US attorneys, as H-1B delay grounds hundreds of Indian techies.

https://is.gd/G9V2yE

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (jvn5r)

450 Next thing you know Hunter will be more conservative than good old Tuck.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (U5htq)

451 447 Aparently people are just copying and pasting the text from DOJ report pdfs on epstein and getting the unredacted text. Just black bars in an extra layer over the docs.
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Hilarious if true

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (UdiE9)

452 So the real question is..

Was Hunter stone cold sober or high as a F##king kite?

Posted by: Blanco at December 23, 2025 04:29 PM (q83gU)

453 451 447 Aparently people are just copying and pasting the text from DOJ report pdfs on epstein and getting the unredacted text. Just black bars in an extra layer over the docs.
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Hilarious if true

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (UdiE9)

I had that happen some years back. Docs submitted by the other part had black bars in a PDF, tried to copy the text into another doc to find I had ALL the text, including that under the blackout. I LOLed and told my attorney...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

454 451 447 Aparently people are just copying and pasting the text from DOJ report pdfs on epstein and getting the unredacted text. Just black bars in an extra layer over the docs.
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Hilarious if true
Posted by: the lower depths

Bill Gates and George Stephanpoulous hardest hit.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (Dv3i1)

455 >>> What motivates such a woman who doesn't have kids a/o a job to get out of bed?

The cats need to be fed (if you have cats), or the elderly parents need assistance, or that's the only way you're going to eat and keep a roof over your head because damn sure no one else is going to feed or house you.

Posted by: FeatherBlade

>It's time to grow the fuck up, and make a meaningful contribution to this relationship. Or there's always the pron industry.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (nljXp)

456 Here I'll get y'all a new post.

Bitches whining their new Obamacare premium is $300-400 a month. Well my Medicare premium payments total to $360 a month. Glad I paid all that money into the plan.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (KDPiq)

457 Next thing you know Hunter will be more conservative than good old Tuck.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN

That, ah, ain't that high a bar.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (OUMaO)

458 My guess is that Ace's Apple II overheated again.

Posted by: Cutting Edge Ted at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (oftw2)

459 Hunter Biden might be trying to angle his way into Democrat politics, but I’ll throw this out there too: I believe Hunter secretly hates his father. Dear dead Beau was the golden boy who got lauded every time Dirty Old Joe gave a speeech. Hunter was just his bagman.

Posted by: RebeccaH at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (VFung)

460 OnlyFans.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (5DEFi)

461 Bitches whining their new Obamacare premium is $300-400 a month. Well my Medicare premium payments total to $360 a month. Glad I paid all that money into the plan.
Posted by: Opinion fact

I think they are complaining that it is going up $300+ as the subsidy goes away. Plans are like $2,000 a month or more for plans with large deductibles.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)

462
Hunter Biden might be trying to angle his way into Democrat politics, but I’ll throw this out there too: I believe Hunter secretly hates his father. Dear dead Beau was the golden boy who got lauded every time Dirty Old Joe gave a speeech. Hunter was just his bagman.
Posted by: RebeccaH

So Hunter is the Biden Faramir?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 04:35 PM (QVmho)

463 Hunter threw those bones to the right hoping people would buy his claim the laptop story is a farce.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 23, 2025 04:35 PM (U/j9n)

464 "Biggest mess, say US attorneys, as H-1B delay grounds hundreds of Indian techies."

At the age of 70, maybe I will get a phone call or email or text about a job offer?

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:36 PM (qFwJc)

465 Saw a headline on Google or someplace Epstein files were dissappearing but clicked on it and it wasn't available.

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:37 PM (Ia/+0)

466 There's no yeller like old yeller.

Posted by: Hunter B. at December 23, 2025 04:37 PM (0sNs1)

467 They need shitty programmers who will accept cowshit as payment.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (5DEFi)

468 Back from the ultrasound and it's not looking good. No heartbeat detected, no yolk sac developing, and the gestational sac looks empty. It looks like Lil Pookette is... gone.

--

I'm so sorry pookysgirl. The same thing happened to me with what would've been my second child. It's a very sad feeling and hard to put into words. My prayers are with you that you may find peace knowing G*d has a plan for us all, and there is a reason it happened. {{{hugs}}}

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (qBdHI)

469 I once worked at a company. I was Senior Tech person, and also head of Japan office and Japan country manager. It was a startup, so that was no big deal.

The CTO was in CA, and they were having process trouble, so he sent Seiko Epson a powerpoint claiming to meet the terms of the contract. Problem is PP had an embedded chart, which embedded the entire excel spreadsheet, and if you double clicked you could see. You would also see the tab that said "Robert's completely fake and fraudulent lying data to cheat Seiko Epson"

OK, I made up the label but that is clearly what he had done. He also did not send me a copy since I would know it was a lie and he wanted me to only see it when it was too late to stop.

When confronted in a very heated meeting in Japan he said "of course I lied, if I had not lied, you would not have paid us the money."

You see, he came from Europe and grant funded academic research. This was how they all think. In industry, there are repercussions and he basically ended the company that day.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (jNFIZ)

470 464 "Biggest mess, say US attorneys, as H-1B delay grounds hundreds of Indian techies."

At the age of 70, maybe I will get a phone call or email or text about a job offer?
------------------------------------
I'm at the point where I assume every news story is a plant rather than organic unless evidence points otherwise. Unfortunately, this might not mean that you are going to get a job offer, just that some tech barons are pissed their slave workforce is drying up, and so they got some presstitutes to write some agitprop for them.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (UdiE9)

471 My guess is that Ace's Apple II overheated again.
Posted by: Cutting Edge Ted at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM

What about his Commodore 64 backup?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (0sNs1)

472 At the age of 70, maybe I will get a phone call or email or text about a job offer?
Posted by: no one

Be sure to leave a message at your nursing home front desk. They should forward the call. It worked for me.

Posted by: Memory Care Level One-Day One at December 23, 2025 04:39 PM (oftw2)

473 Shelving catastrophe?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:39 PM (5DEFi)

474 >It's time to grow the fuck up, and make a meaningful contribution to this relationship. Or there's always the pron industry.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

I misread the original comment as asking about women who didn't have a relationship.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (a+4eV)

475 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)

The Covid inflation bill subsidy is going away. There is still a subsidy if you qualify. A lot were paying 0-50 for their plan . Now they are paying 200-400 for those 1500 plans.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (KDPiq)

476 Maybe the old Ewok found a female Ewok while hunting hobos and "got lucky?"

It's Christmas Eve Eve.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (qFwJc)

477
I got "First!" once.

It changed my life.

Immediately thereafter, I was crowned King of Calsmorkian Island.

The place was a dump so I sold my kingship for enough cash to get a ticket home and a Dogo Argentino.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (iJfKG)

478 469
...
When confronted in a very heated meeting in Japan he said "of course I lied, if I had not lied, you would not have paid us the money."

You see, he came from Europe and grant funded academic research. This was how they all think. In industry, there are repercussions and he basically ended the company that day.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (jNFIZ)

And that, my friends, is how Gov't funded research in Science (e.g. Globul Warmening) works...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

479 Newd.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (5DEFi)

480 NOOOD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

481 My Medicare cost is $228 / month.

Anyone says anything higher might be married.

Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (qFwJc)

482 My Medicare cost is $228 / month.

Anyone says anything higher might be married.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (qFwJ

I pay for a Medicare supplement plan also. My Band C premium is 202.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (KDPiq)

483 Aparently people are just copying and pasting the text from DOJ report pdfs on epstein and getting the unredacted text. Just black bars in an extra layer over the docs.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (3uBP9)

When I dealt with sensitive information, and if I had done something like this, I would have been asked to sit at home while management determined what all could be done to me for being such a screw-up.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (rbvCR)

484 Hah, just double checked - lowest tier for couple that is 60 is $1350/mo rising to $1750/mo for Bronze tier -$9100 deductible. Lower deductible Silver $1800 rising to $2200 $8900 deductible. Poor health and need Gold? $2,050 to $2550 ‐ $2500 deductible.

2025 is w/o subsidy reduction. Typical subsidy is $900/mo so increase is $300 plus $900 from loss of subsidy. Be prepared to spend $15,000 more for Obamacare next year!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (Dv3i1)

485 462 Hunter Biden might be trying to angle his way into Democrat politics,

Unwilling to part with his porn stash and crack pipe collection, IceKingJOE's presidential library will be more boring that Mike Pence's NY eve party.

Hunter seeks to differentiate himself from his fellow NEPOlibs -- as true to life wuz2b Damien Thorne. NO MORE !!!

But seriously, 4 years from now, who would ever really want to go to the IceKingJOE library other than OBAMA and his minions, and that to mock his lessers...

Actually glad to have Prez Business at the helm, even though we know how it endz. Who wants a TACO now?
https://tinyurl.com/WheresTheH1BSpecial
https://www.tinyurl.com/ctHARRIS-FamousLastWords

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (bA8Zf)

486 nood

CBS

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

487 102 UD is perfect

just call it Biden U and there you go

lower the standards - start admitting kids who CAN'T write their names in crayon

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (emBoF)

---

The Biden Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (H4qGm)

488 Earth to Hunter Biden Your Daddy is Irresponsible Get used to it

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (wGqjj)

489 Not liking Asian women? What a weirdo.
Worse than the whore mongering, crack smoking, incest/adultery.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (741ZB)

490 "Huntie" is also throwing dear old dad under the bus. He's a shitty brother, a shitty son, and a shitty father. A veritable icon of a terribly shitty family.

Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (58OnA)

Trans Teaching Assistant who Flunked a Christian Student for Rejecting Trans Propaganda Has Now Been Fired

I would say that the student's essay could be docked some points for relying so heavily on non-academic sources -- the Bible -- but then, the trans TA's rejection of all her arguments was based exclusively on quasi-religious fantasy and myth-making, wasn't it?

And, in addition, the trans bully was attempting to compel a Christian to renounce her faith and accept the trans pseudoreligion as the one true religion. So a bit of citation of the Bible is appropriate. If someone pushes their garbage mental-illness religion on you, you have every right to reject it and defend your own.

I'm glad this noxious woman-abusing male bully is now kicking rocks.

A transgender graduate teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma has been removed from instructional duties after failing a conservative student's Bible-based essay on gender -- a grading decision the university later concluded was arbitrary following an internal review.
The controversy erupted in late November when Samantha Fulnecky, a 20-year-old junior, submitted a written response for a psychology course that rejected modern gender ideology through a Christian lens. The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.
Instead of echoing the paper's progressive framing, Fulnecky grounded her response in faith, writing that she does not believe there are more than two genders "because that is how God made us."
...
The paper was failed by her instructor, Mel Curth -- a transgender graduate student who uses she/they pronouns -- who told Fulnecky she did not properly address the academic prompt and relied on "personal ideology" rather than empirical evidence. Curth also characterized portions of the essay as offensive, objecting to Fulnecky's use of the word "demonic" and arguing that strict gender norms, by definition, create stereotypes.
"To call an entire group of people 'demonic' is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population," Curth wrote in written feedback, while also pointing out what Curth described as internal contradictions in the essay's reasoning.

"Minoritized"? Like you really weren't a minority, but oppressors forced minority status on to you?

Jesus save us from these heathens and their corrupt gutter language.

...
On Monday, the university announced it had completed its investigation and determined that Curth's grading of the paper was not applied fairly. In a statement, the school said the decision was based on a review of Curth's own statements and concluded the graduate teaching assistant would no longer have instructional duties.

As far as applying rigid academic standards to this essay: It was a 650 word essay. This is an assignment we used to give to middle-schoolers. It's basically an opening argument, two paragraphs, and a conclusion that merely restates the opening argument. It's not as if this was a real essay. It's a time waster.

The student was being compelled to accept the framing that we have two sexes merely because of "gender norms." She has every right and duty -- particularly as a believing Christian -- to refute that assumption. A Jewish student cannot be required to write an essay affirming the assumption that Jews deserved the Holocaust.

It's very clear that this tranny is not interested in actual academic work. He's interested in forced prosyletization to a captive audience.

Below: The Hottie vs. the Nottie.

The University of Oklahoma confirms that Mel Curth, the teaching assistant who gave a student a failing grade on a psychology essay, will no longer be teaching. pic.twitter.com/DAF8vFYFLk
— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 23, 2025

She plays tennis, too. The two could probably have found common ground by discussing how they try to slip their balls past their partners.

Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM

Comments

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1 Hello

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (UdiE9)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (KgVf3)

4 And I had JUST refreshed the main page 10 seconds ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

5 TROONS GONNA TROON

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Kt19C)

6 The Hottie vs. the Nottie

Poetry, and accurate to boot.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (UdiE9)

7 I would say that the student's essay could be docked some points for relying so heavily on non-academic sources -- the Bible -- but then, the trans TA's rejection of all her arguments was based exclusively on quasi-religious fantasy and myth-making, wasn't it?

Yeah, the essay was not particularly great, it didn't have several elements such as citations, and was not especially well written, so it was probably a C- or D paper, but that's not why the tranny flunked her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (3Amc7)

8 Speaking of schools, that's how China is now planning on destroying America from within:

https://tinyurl.com/2vajm59p

WAR.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (KgVf3)

9 Minoritized for her pleasure.

At least that's what I tell them

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (oHAzj)

10 A transgender graduate teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma has been removed from instructional duties after failing a conservative student's Bible-based essay on gender -- a grading decision the university later concluded was arbitrary following an internal review.

The only questionable thing about this story, which no one is really talking about, is the fact that the girl that submitted the essay did NOTHING that the project was requesting. She just randomly quoted Bible scripture that had nothing to do with the topic at hand, so she should've failed anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

11 Willowed.

Like - at least flounder died doing what he loved - screaming in a flaming car wreck.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (oHAzj)

That's so wrong. More like jerking it in a flaming car wreck.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)

12
Bro looks like a Cabbage Patch doll.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (TWzjC)

13 Pretty sure that's, like, genocide or something.

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (YoUJR)

14 Reinstate me or I’M GONNA KILL MYSELF!!!

Posted by: Trennt Teaching Assistant, probably at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Wv0GD)

15 Los Angeles weather casters make it sound like better build an ark.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Kt19C)

16 “been removed from instructional duties”

Is that fired? Sounds more like one of those paid administrative leave deals.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (UJWr0)

17 She plays tennis, too. The two could probably have found common ground by discussing how they try to slip their balls past their partners.

Be honest now, you posted this entire story just for that line, didn't you?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (3Amc7)

18 650 words is barely two pages. Hardly long enough to frame the argument, let alone do an in-depth analysis of journal articles.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (ESVrU)

19 Bro looks like a Cabbage Patch doll.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (TWzjC)

Garbage Pail Kid

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (06Hmj)

20 Not so stunning and brave

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (kc/r8)

21 Even Austin 3:16 would side with the hottie on this argument.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (nDy1Y)

22
Yeah, they kicked it out of the classroom, which means it will be put into administration, which is probably worse.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (IifOV)

23
Incidentally, CNBC today used a still image of Our Favorite President™ and he kinda looked like "Rygel" from Farscape.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (TWzjC)

24 Curth's primary mistake was being a TA.

Had Curth been a professor or, even better, a public school teacher, Curth would still be employed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (avHHk)

25 "What is college if I'm not affirmed in every instance by every person I come across with things I learned on the Internet?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

26 Speaking of schools, that's how China is now planning on destroying America from within:

Seems like a waste of money, since public schools do that anyway.

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (YoUJR)

27 a grading decision the university later concluded was arbitrary following an internal review.

The snake: it's in my nature.

Also, the administrators who hold themselves blameless: it's in our nature.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (6LzyB)

28
Dude/IT looks like a porky Richard Simmons.

Sweatin' to the moldies.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (IifOV)

29 As far as applying rigid academic standards to this essay: It was a 650 word essay. This is an assignment we used to give to middle-schoolers. It's basically an opening argument, two paragraphs, and a conclusion that merely restates the opening argument. It's not as if this was a real essay. It's a time waster.
++++
"Time waster" == "academic rigor"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (avHHk)

30 "told Fulnecky she did not properly address the academic prompt and relied on "personal ideology" rather than empirical evidence."

All Trans Support is based on personal ideology.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (vbXSk)

31 A Jewish student cannot be required to write an essay affirming the assumption that Jews deserved the Holocaust.
++++
I bet you he could, especially in an Ivy League school.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (avHHk)

32 \Dude/IT looks like a porky Richard Simmons.

Sweatin' to the moldies.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (IifOV)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

33 He she they them it will probably get a professorship somewhere as he she they them it is now a hero/martyr for leftists in academia.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (UJWr0)

34 Below: The Hottie vs. the Nottie.
++++
Nice smile.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (avHHk)

35 Los Angeles weather casters make it sound like better build an ark.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Kt19C)
-

I can save you and your loved ones:

https://tinyurl.com/y9bae3mk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (KgVf3)

36 Curth's primary mistake was being a TA.

Had Curth been a professor or, even better, a public school teacher, Curth would still be employed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (avHHk)
---
Yep. GTAs and adjuncts are pretty expendable from the university's perspective.

Tenure-track or even NTT would have made things much harder for the university.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (ESVrU)

37 Related:
DOJ has declared all MSI "Minority Serving Institution" programs and grants are unconstitutional.

These are awards to colleges and universities based on the percentage of minorities.
You know, discrimination based on race.
You know, a financial incentive to discriminate against whites and admit lesser-qualified minorities.

That ... could be a lot of money.

Can't wait for the clown judge to issue the inevitable illegal injunction that the Executive must not comply with the SCOTUS Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (HXT0k)

38 The comments on the X page are surprisingly hostile to the young woman. Lots of mocking Christianity.

Posted by: beckster at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (I7J98)

39 What exactly is this Gurth creature?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

40 31 A Jewish student cannot be required to write an essay affirming the assumption that Jews deserved the Holocaust.
++++
I bet you he could, especially in an Ivy League school.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (avHHk)

=====

"Write an essay from a Palestinian time traveler's perspective as he feeds Jews into the ovens at Auschwitz."

"I thought this was a math class."

"Math Studies."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

41 That babe is a strong Christian and rejects leftist ideology? I bet her mom can't walk more than three feet at church without another woman begging to give her son's phone number to her.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (Yp6az)

42
Be honest now, you posted this entire story just for that line, didn't you?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (3Amc7)

Can you blame him?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

43 >>>I would say that the student's essay could be docked some points for relying so heavily on non-academic sources -- the Bible

. . .

>>>a 20-year-old junior, submitted a written response for a psychology course that rejected modern gender ideology through a Christian lens.

It's a fair argument when the counterargument is based in pseudo-scientific, feelz-based, victim-aura-farming mania.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

44 "She plays tennis, too. The two could probably have found common ground by discussing how they try to slip their balls past their partners."

This is why I come here. Also because Ace always clarifies the "would I?" part of any story involving the fairer sex...when warranted.

Posted by: Meric at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (3HOfK)

45 A Jewish student cannot be required to write an essay affirming the assumption that Jews deserved the Holocaust.
++++

They force Christians to sing the praises of abortion and islam do they not

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (oHAzj)

46 Seems like a waste of money, since public schools do that anyway.

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (YoUJR)
-

You can't buy public schools. This covers the elite's kids.

Faster! Faster!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (KgVf3)

47 37 Related:
DOJ has declared all MSI "Minority Serving Institution" programs and grants are unconstitutional.

These are awards to colleges and universities based on the percentage of minorities.
You know, discrimination based on race.
You know, a financial incentive to discriminate against whites and admit lesser-qualified minorities.

That ... could be a lot of money.

Can't wait for the clown judge to issue the inevitable illegal injunction that the Executive must not comply with the SCOTUS Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (HXT0k)

======

I looked into this briefly, focusing on a small CA university just to get an idea.

The money funded at least 10 administrators while promising almost nothing but pamphlets about how great minorities at the university are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

48 The comments on the X page are surprisingly hostile to the young woman. Lots of mocking Christianity.
Posted by: beckster at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (I7J9

Leftists have discovered that BlueSky is a liberal shithole and have made their way back to X.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

49 It is amazing that medical science can now not only amputate your male member, but then transplant it successfully right on to the top of your fucking neck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (06Hmj)

50 The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.

The left made a big deal about ending bully in the early 00s. Oddly though they only cared about homosexuals and the like being bullied, not nerds, the poor, or any of the other categories that get you bullied.

And of course as soon as they felt they had waited long enough they then turned their bullying on anyone that wasn't an Alphabet person.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)

51 And for the record:

>>>Flounder if you drop dead I want you to know in advance I'm probably gonna make some highly inappropriate jokes about it.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (oHAzj)

I am fine with this. My wife rarely reads here, and I would hope to provide a smile or two, even when I am planning on haunting you mofos from down under.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (dK+Kv)

52 The comments on the X page are surprisingly hostile to the young woman. Lots of mocking Christianity.

Huh. I thought they all went to Bluesky.

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (YoUJR)

53 Los Angeles weather casters make it sound like better build an ark.

—

It’s hilarious. I spent a few months in the San Diego area. There were a couple of days of rain. Not torrential downpours or anything just normal rainy days. The way the local news acted you’d think a category 5 hurricane was approaching.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (UJWr0)

54 He looks like the Vance meme.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (viF8m)

55 The paper was failed by her instructor, Mel Curth -- a transgender graduate student who uses she/they pronouns -- who told Fulnecky she did not properly address the academic prompt and relied on

"personal ideology" rather than empirical evidence.

"The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article"

Except the reply didn't require nor ask for empirical evidence or footnotes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (lEejK)

56
We're in Wyoming. We're grilling burgers, sausages and hot dogs even if there is a blizzard, lol.

Tomorrow family is coming here for a big breakfast.

Do what makes you happy!!

Merry Christmas to all of you good people here at AOS, the best place on the internet!!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (3ek7K)

57 The only questionable thing about this story, which no one is really talking about, is the fact that the girl that submitted the essay did NOTHING that the project was requesting. She just randomly quoted Bible scripture that had nothing to do with the topic at hand, so she should've failed anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

I've seen a few different discussions and stories on this and it's not at all clear to me what the parameters were for this assignment, and whether there were any detailed parameters at all such as a requirement to cite studies or produce empirical evidence or what have you. Given the 650 word limit - about 2.5 double-spaced pages - there would be little to no room for such, and this sounds more like a prompt for a reaction paper, which are pretty free-wheeling.

Posted by: A few thoughts at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (TbWk/)

58 "she/they" You mean this pyrsyn can't even get that right?

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (iDFVA)

59 It is amazing that medical science can now not only amputate your male member, but then transplant it successfully right on to the top of your fucking neck.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

This is about us, isn't it?
-- Jeff Bezos and Mark Kelly

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

60 Reinstate me or I’M GONNA KILL MYSELF!!!
Posted by: Trennt Teaching Assistant, probably at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Wv0GD)

https://youtu.be/Z_J2JNdC9Vg?t=37

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

61 The Bible used to be the main textbook for schooling in this country. We were better off back then.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (LHPAg)

62 So Mel is now Melina? Melanie?

It looks like her face will open up and Arnold Schwarzenegger will pop out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (nljXp)

63 Samantha Fulnecky. Yum.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (v0R5T)

64 "In this how we believe in science"

and

"Of course a person can change their sex if they identify as the other sex"

Posted by: Shit liberals say at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

65

Check back next semester when it will resurface.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (MXlg8)

66 Leftists have discovered that BlueSky is a liberal shithole and have made their way back to X.

But... But .. eLoN iS a LiTeRaL nAzI!!!

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (YoUJR)

67 The hot chick has more balls (tennis) than the tranny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (2vrAX)

68
Merry Christmas to all of you good people here at AOS, the best place on the internet!!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (3ek7K)

All of this right here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

69 “She plays tennis, too. The two could probably have found common ground by discussing how they try to slip their balls past their partners.”

This is the level of top shelf cruelty I have come to expect from Ace.

Posted by: Open Channel D at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (gYnrv)

70 Another tragedy of this is flying under the radar: The tranny freakazoid teaching this class was a graduate student. Not a professor, or assistant professor, or any kind of professor. Basically, a TA.

Imagine paying tens of thousands a year for college, and you're being taught not by real professors, but by students not much more knowledgeable or experienced than you.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

71 A good bit of tranny crap is just pure jealousy and revenge. Tennis gal is 200% cute and of course this dude was going to try to punish her for it.

Why does this always have to go this far? Don't let freak perverts into places of authority. When some idiot already let them in and they pull these stunts then just assert, no you pervert freak get out of here with that. Why is this very basic thing so difficult now?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (3uBP9)

72 u know the fail grade was approved by other staff, too. So why was the trans teacher the only one fired?

The essay was so poorly written that any religious person should be mad at this girl for her awful work. She doesn't even provide a citation for the Bible.

Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states. The ones that I work alongside here in a very blue state are worried. Friends who have transitioning children are worried. The whole extended community is worried. I can't imagine what it might be like in a deep red state.

Gotta prove that Christians are oppressed by giving them participation trophies for not even trying to meet the standards others have to meet. Talk about snowflakes!

From my understanding transgender status is no longer protected under Title IX. I hope I am wrong but as a trans people myself I've been extra careful lately.

The point wasn't to win though. The point was to send a message that Trans people will not be safe or welcome. Anywhere. That's been accomplished. It's already done.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (ycI94)

73 Ok, that closing line is a stroke of genius.

Posted by: Mister Fabulist at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (x8eGV)

74 would say that the student's essay could be docked some points for relying so heavily on non-academic sources -- the Bible -- but then, the trans TA's rejection of all her arguments was based exclusively on quasi-religious fantasy and myth-making, wasn't it?

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I take your point.

But, while appeals to faith don't necessarily count in academics, the Christian student can at least appeal to the argument that the Bible is a taproot of American civic culture, and can be used as a reference in debates about fundamental social questions.

The tranny can't exactly point to zher illustrated copy of "Little Jimmy's Gay-Ass Dickchopping Adventure" zhe's been reading since 5th grade as some kind of foundational intellectual document.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (BI5O2)

75 Fulneckey likes to hold furry balls. Imma voting for Fulneckey!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (pLaQB)

76 I've seen a few different discussions and stories on this and it's not at all clear to me what the parameters were for this assignment, and whether there were any detailed parameters at all such as a requirement to cite studies or produce empirical evidence or what have you. Given the 650 word limit - about 2.5 double-spaced pages - there would be little to no room for such, and this sounds more like a prompt for a reaction paper, which are pretty free-wheeling.
Posted by: A few thoughts at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (TbWk/)

Other teachers at OU have said they'd have failed her for what she turned in. Had she made the slightest attempt to follow the requirements, she'd likely not have failed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

77 The Bible is only the most widely read and thoroughly preserved historical document in the world, and translated into 1,500 or so languages for good measure - what does it know.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (oHAzj)

78 Merry Christmas to all of you good people here at AOS, the best place on the internet!!
Posted by: fourseasons

Same to you, Fourseasons!

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)

79 61 The Bible used to be the main textbook for schooling in this country. We were better off back then.
Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (LHPAg)

The New England Primer, and hornbooks.

Posted by: NOT Morning Glory Milking Farm hornbooks at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

80 Fulneckey likes to hold furry balls. Imma voting for Fulneckey!
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (pLaQB)

I've been fullnecky once or twice. Tee hee!

Posted by: Kumswala Harris at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

81 "she/they" You mean this pyrsyn can't even get that right?
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (iDFVA)
++++
From the linked tweet with the picture, it looks like a homely woman. If so, I *strongly* suspect this is a phony virtue-signal claim. "I'm an unattractive girl and I mostly like banging dudes, but I am willing to take a walk down Gay Street and would really like some institutional preference, so I'll claim gender identity and go with the real pronoun and the most-common misused plural so it, in effect, makes no difference."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (avHHk)

82 Imagine paying tens of thousands a year for college, and you're being taught not by real professors, but by students not much more knowledgeable or experienced than you.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah back in my day TAs graded papers and tests. But professors taught classes. So what the fuck do professors get paid for now if they don’t even do that?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (UJWr0)

83 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.

It is amazing how quickly we went from "what two consenting adults do in their own bedroom is their business" to "If I can't twerk in woman-face in front of a bunch of toddlers it is literal trans-genocide"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

84 Much of this nonsense has flourished due to a distinct lack of throat punching of troons in educational environments.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (cYBz/)

85 Troon has Leo Sayer hair.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (PSEDc)

86 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
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Okay.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (pLaQB)

87 ... the trans bully was attempting to compel a Christian to renounce her faith and accept the trans pseudoreligion..."

************

Ace-
Was it you who coined the term crybully? If not, you have used it to good effect. It almost describes the trans radicals, but I think it misses one element. Especially in teens and pre-teens, the validation of their earliest delusions sends a message that they are entitled to force anyone to accept and validate their delusions to the point of using violence.

"Weaponized-delusional-faux-victim-bullies" seems apt, if rather unwieldy.

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (/iMjX)

88 Other teachers at OU have said they'd have failed her for what she turned in. Had she made the slightest attempt to follow the requirements, she'd likely not have failed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

Failing was probably the point, at some level.

What better way to say F.U. than a nationally publicized flameout like this?

Let's see all the little jabs and insults and abuse she's dealt with at the hands of this fucking pervert beforehand. Bet ya there's a clear trajectory.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (06Hmj)

89 Friends who have transitioning children are worried.

You misspelled 'should be drawn and quartered.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

90 It is amazing how quickly we went from "what two consenting adults do in their own bedroom is their business" to "If I can't twerk in woman-face in front of a bunch of toddlers it is literal trans-genocide"

That escalated quickly.

Posted by: R. Burgundy at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (YoUJR)

91 And I didn't even make an inappropriate comment regarding the display of her breasts.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (v0R5T)

92 ... Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states. The ones that I work alongside here in a very blue state are worried. Friends who have transitioning children are worried. The whole extended community is worried. I can't imagine what it might be like in a deep red state. ...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (ycI94)
++++
LOL K

Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (avHHk)

93 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.

—

Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (UJWr0)

94 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
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Who is bringing the booze

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (oHAzj)

95 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.

I suppose there are downsides also but I can't come up with any right now.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (cYBz/)

96 Yeah back in my day TAs graded papers and tests. But professors taught classes. So what the fuck do professors get paid for now if they don’t even do that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It was both in some of my language classes at Michigan. Usually a TA would teach, but every so often (once a week?) the professor would show up in person to teach.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (77rzZ)

97 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.

Popping the corn even as we speak!

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (YoUJR)

98 86 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
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Okay.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Lol. I'm ready! 🍿

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (ycI94)

99 >>> Other teachers at OU have said they'd have failed her for what she turned in. Had she made the slightest attempt to follow the requirements, she'd likely not have failed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

I subscribe to the, "trannies are always wrong" philosophy.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (3uBP9)

100
This is why I come here. Also because Ace always clarifies the "would I?" part of any story involving the fairer sex...when warranted.

Posted by: Meric at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM

HARE LIP!

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (tljrc)

101 Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.

Implicit in the current lefty idea of trannies is that everyone has to celebrate them with however poorly they put on womanface. And yes that includes punishing those that disagree.

Then: Your right to disagree ends at my nose

Now: Your right to disagree ends before your mouth

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

102 82 Imagine paying tens of thousands a year for college, and you're being taught not by real professors, but by students not much more knowledgeable or experienced than you.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah back in my day TAs graded papers and tests. But professors taught classes. So what the fuck do professors get paid for now if they don’t even do that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (UJWr0)

Suck dick for grant money.

Posted by: Metaphorically of course at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)

103 There's such an easy answer here, and it's the same for really everything. Just stop engaging in the Culture War.

The Left though can't help itself. think how many institutions they have ruined because they won't stop proselytizing.

Flip this around, you really think a really devout Christian TA would use her position to push some hot button issue? Or would they just have an assignment that everyone could do without any drama?

Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (eIzlH)

104
Let's see all the little jabs and insults and abuse she's dealt with at the hands of this fucking pervert beforehand. Bet ya there's a clear trajectory.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (06Hmj)

That's what needs to happen now, because the removal from teaching because a student failed for not doing the assignment properly is a bad look, regardless.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

105 Then: Your right to disagree ends at my nose

Now: Your right to disagree ends before your mouth

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

There is a natural progression to the next step, best not to think about it

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:45 PM (oHAzj)

106 clarifies the "would I?" part of any story involving the fairer sex...when warranted.

Posted by: Meric at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM

HARE LIP!

Posted by: AltonJackson

Snort!

This place. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 01:45 PM (cYBz/)

107
I subscribe to the, "trannies are always wrong" philosophy.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (3uBP9)

I mean, I'm on the "God didn't get it wrong, you did" philosophy bandwagon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

108 The only questionable thing about this story, which no one is really talking about, is the fact that the girl that submitted the essay did NOTHING that the project was requesting. She just randomly quoted Bible scripture that had nothing to do with the topic at hand, so she should've failed anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

Did she, though? Is her paper available on line? The entire assignment seems like a make-work joke to me. 650 words? I was writing book reports in 2nd grade longer than that. This was not a serious assignment.

And it seems she did actually respond (at least kinda) to the assignment -- which asked for analysis on bullying over trans bullshit -- by essentially saying there are only two genders and the rest is bullshit.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

109 My objections to "transgenderism" aren't religious. My objections are based on easily-observed reality and indisputable science (real science, not "sCiEnCe").

Posted by: 2+2=4 at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (qUkBO)

110 When i was on the inside, you'd have the Professor give the main lecture two or three times a week to an audience of 1-2k. Then there was a small army of TAs who would teach breakout classes inbetween of a dozen or two students, so you could actually interact and ask questions if you didn't immediately grok what was in the lecture.

Prof also had office hours, but good luck with that.

This was more for the 100 level pre-req kind of classes. (Physics, Calc, etc.). As class size dropped, there were fewer and fewer TAs involved.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (06Hmj)

111 Flip this around, you really think a really devout Christian TA would use her position to push some hot button issue? Or would they just have an assignment that everyone could do without any drama?

The lefty takes on this would be something like

You shouldn't be able to push Christian ideas on anyone else. Why would that make me a hypocrite? The transsexual student was just providing scientific facts so she wasn't pushing anything.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

112 Who was the hottest woman professional tennis player? Christ Evert? Jennifer Capriati? Anna Kournikova?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

113 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.

*prepares lawn chair and beer cooler*

Posted by: Johnny can't read but thinks he's a girl at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (TbWk/)

114 It's so difficult to be a woman in society that we have to protect men's rights to pretend to be one.

-The Left

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (oHAzj)

115 So this thread is about me.
You're mean.

Posted by: Bluesky at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (Qv0IH)

116 I’m trying to remember if I ever had TAs actually teach. I don’t think so. It’s been a while so maybe I don’t remember every single class I had.

But generally as far as I can remember professors taught classes.

Different time I guess? Even more shockingly even the really left wing ones engaged in honest good faith debates with students. I had one Econ prof who first day said I’m a liberal, but I am going to teach you both sides of every issue and I want you to challenge me when you think I’m wrong. That was. A really fun class. I can’t imagine that exists today.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (UJWr0)

117 Who was the hottest woman professional tennis player? Christ Evert? Jennifer Capriati? Anna Kournikova?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

Gabriella Sabatini

Posted by: Ramada at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (PSEDc)

118 In other news, Tim Walz is still retarded.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (0sNs1)

119 My objections to "transgenderism" aren't religious. My objections are based on easily-observed reality and indisputable science (real science, not "sCiEnCe").

Put 100 MtF trannies on an island and dig up their remains 100 years later and they archeologist will tell you 100 men lived here...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)

120 Demonic Americans should be fired.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (5DEFi)

121
And it seems she did actually respond (at least kinda) to the assignment -- which asked for analysis on bullying over trans bullshit -- by essentially saying there are only two genders and the rest is bullshit.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

She didn't even site the Bible passages she used in her paper. She failed to do the assignment as instructed. She earned the fail grade.

I think this is a pock mark on what would normally be a troon inflicting their will.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

122 The entire assignment seems like a make-work joke to me.
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Or as I call it, school

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (oHAzj)

123 Imagine paying tens of thousands a year for college, and you're being taught not by real professors, but by students not much more knowledgeable or experienced than you.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah back in my day TAs graded papers and tests. But professors taught classes. So what the fuck do professors get paid for now if they don’t even do that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (UJWr0)

Suck dick for grant money.
Posted by: Metaphorically of course at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)
________

I think that's the TAs sucking dick, bro. It's not a coincidence that the vast majority of TAs are pretty girls (for the straight profs) or pretty guys (for the gays). I'm sure there are "arrangements" in effect.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

124 Retired Baseball player upset that Disney Cruise line had a man Dressed as a Woman dealing with Kids, Santa is Black and so is his wife, you can't hate this company enough.

I am a DVC member and loved taking my family there now, I rent my points and go to Europe or rent an RV and drive across the Country instead, next stop ICELAND.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (FCrpy)

125 was the hottest woman professional tennis player? Christ Evert? Jennifer Capriati? Anna Kournikova?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

Anna by a mile.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (UJWr0)

126 Who was the hottest woman professional tennis player? Christ Evert? Jennifer Capriati? Anna Kournikova?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

Anna.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

127 In other news, Tim Walz is still retarded.

Timpon must wish he didn't make a big deal of it when Trump started calling him a 'tard because boy did that insult stick

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

128 Junior brought his new girlfriend home for the Holidays.

Her name is Melvin.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (nljXp)

129
Different time I guess? Even more shockingly even the really left wing ones engaged in honest good faith debates with students. I had one Econ prof who first day said I’m a liberal, but I am going to teach you both sides of every issue and I want you to challenge me when you think I’m wrong. That was. A really fun class. I can’t imagine that exists today.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (UJWr0)

Yep. Had a really good PoliSci professor who was commie AF but left his beliefs out of it and graded you on the thoroughness of your arguments and clarity of your writing. I doubt these sorts are even allowed to exist on college campuses today.

Posted by: Indoctrinators v educators at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)

130 The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.

----

So this freak is basically asserting in their question that you and I and everyone else aren't transgender because of peer pressure to be straight.

The rise in transgenderism is a direct result of grade school groomers melting these kid's brains while they are going through puberty which is an awkward time that we all made it through but still confusing.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (nJthq)

131 Where I live, there are still some trans folks wondering around like NPC from walking dead.

It's sad and horrifying

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (61TgR)

132 I’m trying to remember if I ever had TAs actually teach. I don’t think so. It’s been a while so maybe I don’t remember every single class I had.

But generally as far as I can remember professors taught classes.

Different time I guess? Even more shockingly even the really left wing ones engaged in honest good faith debates with students. I had one Econ prof who first day said I’m a liberal, but I am going to teach you both sides of every issue and I want you to challenge me when you think I’m wrong. That was. A really fun class. I can’t imagine that exists today.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (UJWr0)
++++
When I was a TA, I was an actual assistant. I didn't teach and did little grading. It was hands-on project/lab class and the prof needed help to get to all the students who needed help.

I had some classes semi-taught by TAs. Big auditorium courses with 500ish students headed by the professor one day a week, smaller 30-ish-student breakouts taught by TAs the other day.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (avHHk)

133
So, we have trannies, furries and other perverted shit.

I'm skeered to think what is next.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (3ek7K)

134 On the subject of trannies behaving badly, Joey Swoll called out a male tranny filming himself in the women's locker room grabbing his dick through his pants.

http://tiny.cc/jwsw001

Then later did an update announcing the gym banned the guy. In this update Joey correctly calls the guy, "he."

http://tiny.cc/nwsw001

At which point the usual suspects simultaneously fainted over this pervert being, "misgendered."

http://tiny.cc/pwsw001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (Yp6az)

135 I knew a girl named Kevin. This is before transmania so it really was a girl.

Her parents though apparently really wanted a boy...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)

136
Timpon must wish he didn't make a big deal of it when Trump started calling him a 'tard because boy did that insult stick
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

It's 4 D chess by Trump in his attempt to make the "sticks and stones" mantra great again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

137 "Trans Teaching Assistant who Flunked a Christian Student for Rejecting Trans Propaganda Has Now Been Fired..."

No. Read the source.. He/she whatever whomever has been removed from teaching..

IOW now doing something else.

Posted by: James Lewis at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (TMfHK)

138 Posted by: 2+2=4 at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM

Ignoring Ace's 'no math on the blog' directive this close to completion of the AoSHQ Annual Commentator Reviews could be suboptimal to one's evaluation.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (0sNs1)

139 The burning times are next.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (5DEFi)

140 "Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states." Posted by: Tonypete

Fired Just for having a mental disorder.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (vbXSk)

141 This country needs to be purged of all trans ideology and I hate to say this but these lunatics need to be put back in the f**king closet.

I'm sick of having to listen to this lunacy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (XV/Pl)

142 Anna by a mile.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

There was some Russian tennis chick who came along after Anna and was regarded as a much better player. I recall that she was pretty hot, too, but I forget her name.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (77rzZ)

143 I object to assholes being assholes. I give no fucks about what you imagine is going on between your gross ass legs. Put on a wig, dance around, talk in a grotesque fake accent. I don't give a shit. Just stop being such a fucking twat about it.

I probably wouldn't give a crap about you if you were just a normal dude, either. You don't matter. Being a creepy weirdo twat just makes you matter even less.

For fuck's aches, just go somewhere and do something useful and shut the fuck up about yourself already. We're trying to have a civilization here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (06Hmj)

144
Thomas,

Right on!!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (3ek7K)

145 For the record humans don't have gender. Gender is a term from linguistics were many Euro-languages gender their words

Human beings have a sex, and outside of a small number of those with genetic conditions you are either male or female and you can't change it

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (sKqQm)

146 You misspelled Sharapova.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (5DEFi)

147 Junior brought his new girlfriend home for the Holidays.

Her name is Melvin.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Not Mulva?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)

148 Anna Kournikova for sure. You should've seen her at 14 years old. Yowza, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Sergei Fedorov at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (Y1sOo)

149 And it seems she did actually respond (at least kinda) to the assignment -- which asked for analysis on bullying over trans bullshit -- by essentially saying there are only two genders and the rest is bullshit.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

She didn't even site the Bible passages she used in her paper. She failed to do the assignment as instructed. She earned the fail grade.

I think this is a pock mark on what would normally be a troon inflicting their will.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

I don't know how you know this. I don't see where there was any requirement to cite sources, whether to the Bible or academic. The assignment seems to have been: read this article and tell me what you think about it. So she did. And, of course, the tranny freak did not fail her for the reasons you say. He failed her because she refused to bend the knee.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

150 So, we have trannies, furries and other perverted shit.

I'm skeered to think what is next.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (3ek7K)

Cannibalism and human sacrifice.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (oHAzj)

151 I knew a girl named Kevin. This is before transmania so it really was a girl.

Her parents though apparently really wanted a boy...
Posted by: 18-1

Like the case with Obama's mom. Wasn't she named Stanley?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (77rzZ)

152 This country needs to be purged of all trans ideology and I hate to say this but these lunatics need to be put back in the f**king closet.

By "closet" I assume you mean mental hospital?

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (YoUJR)

153 This country needs to be purged of all trans ideology and I hate to say this but these lunatics need to be put back in the f**king closet./i]

Then: What does gay marriage have to do with your anyway h8ter?!? If you don't like gay marriage don't marry another dude.

Now:Trans Teaching Assistant Flunked a Christian Student for Rejecting Trans Propaganda

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

154 If 650 words constitutes an “essay” our university education system is in deep trouble.

Shit some exam questions I had to write were longe than that. An essay was like 10+ pages minimum.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (UJWr0)

155 When making a tranny, do they cut off the dick?

What do they do with the unused dick?

They should ship a bunch of old trannines , and can discuss how happy they are with their sex lives.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (EyfuW)

156 The two could probably have found common ground by discussing how they try to slip their balls past their partners.

Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM

Cruel Ace is best Ace.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (Wnv9h)

157 @134 love the cut from Rickey Gervais " her penis, you fucking bigot"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (2vrAX)

158 Pretty sure Oberlin or Brown will hire Curth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (F0j7f)

159 "So, we have trannies, furries and other perverted shit.
I'm skeered to think what is next."

Murders are next. There should be a study on how many murders are committed by trannies, and how many by furries (with some crossover). Certainly they seem to murder at a much higher rate than normies.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (vbXSk)

160 A page and a half at the University Level?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (5DEFi)

161 Wait are we talking about plump juicy ladyballs in this thread?

I need to go, uh, get something, be right back but keep talking

Posted by: David French at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

162 >>The two could probably have found common ground by discussing how they try to slip their balls past their partners.

I wonder if Ace posted this just so he could use that joke?

It's a good one, so understandable

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (jNFIZ)

163 Shit some exam questions I had to write were longe than that. An essay was like 10+ pages minimum.

Well, if you use a really big font...

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (YoUJR)

164 You misspelled Sharapova.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Thank you. Maria Sharapova was the other Russian tennis hottie I was trying to remember.

She and Anna are pretty close in terms of hotness.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

165 I don't know how you know this. I don't see where there was any requirement to cite sources, whether to the Bible or academic. The assignment seems to have been: read this article and tell me what you think about it. So she did. And, of course, the tranny freak did not fail her for the reasons you say. He failed her because she refused to bend the knee.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

I have friends close to the situation, graduates of OU and some that live in Norman that are much closer than what's being put on the internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

166 - a non-academic source like the Bible

You know ace, there has been a lot going on with science discoveries that doesn't make the news. Going clear back to the invention of the electron microscope. The "simple cell" ain't so simple.
Recent discoveries in genetics would blow your mind,,, if you took the time to look.
Then there's that whole big bang thing getting blown out of the water.
And evidence outside the Bible that humans walked the earth with dinosaurs.
But you'll never see if you don't look.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (T08Hw)

167 I don't know if this will be covered any time soon but it is interesting

https://tinyurl.com/bdea7hmb

Justice Department Sues the District of Columbia for the Unconstitutional Ban of Semi-Automatic Firearms

[Dec 22 2025] the Justice Department sued the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), alleging that the District government and MPD unconstitutionally ban the AR-15 and many other firearms protected under the Second Amendment.

(as a side note, I do like this administration's approach to news releases, they don't bury the lede)

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

168 I missed the joke as I never read the part above the comments.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (5DEFi)

169
Maybe we'll give Ace a 1/2 day on Christmas. What do you say, gang?

Just kidding. Ace must be here all day on Christmas, posting Yule Log Flame open threads.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (TWzjC)

170 Whichever Russian tennis hottie was in that music video is the hottest.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (UJWr0)

171 What do they do with the unused dick?
Posted by: thug dolphin

What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Babbit?

"You gonna eat that?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)

172 What comes next for the Democrat-Communists? Normalization of pedophilia (already underway) and mass conversion to Islam (5-20 years).

Posted by: 2+2=4 at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (qUkBO)

173 Trans IS demonic.

Posted by: night lifted at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (/YboP)

174 I see in reaction to the Jihadi terror attack on Bondi Beach Australia is...cracking down on anti-immigration protestors.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

175 The pedo movement is not "next". The trans movement IS the pedo movement.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (oHAzj)

176 If you name your daughter Kevin, you're a total dick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (BI5O2)

177 Yeah, they kicked it out of the classroom, which means it will be put into administration, which is probably worse.
Posted by: Frank Barone

That's not how graduate TA ships work. It was probably relegated to only grading papers and not lecturing.

Worst case, it got its stipend revoked and has to find something else to do for beer money.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (a+4eV)

178 Spotted Dick is a delicacy in the UK.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (5DEFi)

179 I see in reaction to the Jihadi terror attack on Bondi Beach Australia is...cracking down on anti-immigration protestors.
Posted by: 18-1

And more gun bans.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (UJWr0)

180 What comes next for the Democrat-Communists? Normalization of pedophilia (already underway) and mass conversion to Islam (5-20 years).

"The Conservative Case for Cannibalism?"

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (YoUJR)

181 Gabriella Sabatini

I had a nice chat with her once at a tournament in Manhattan Beach. I could hardly contain my boner.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (nljXp)

182 173 Trans IS demonic.
Posted by: night lifted at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (/YboP)

I disagree. It's fundamentally human.

"I will debase myself in any way I can imagine if it means I can exert my will over you and you must comply".

It's the most human thing going right now outside of OnlyFans.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (06Hmj)

183 And evidence outside the Bible that humans walked the earth with dinosaurs.
Posted by: TeeJ

No. There isn't.

Just stop.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

184 Eugenia Bouchard is kinda hot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (2vrAX)

185 My objections to "transgenderism" aren't religious. My objections are based on easily-observed reality and indisputable science (real science, not "sCiEnCe").
Posted by: 2+2=4

My objection starts with "if you're not discussing linguistics or electronics, you shouldn't be using the word gender."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (mlg/3)

186 And evidence outside the Bible that humans walked the earth with dinosaurs.
But you'll never see if you don't look.

Here you go: https://tinyurl.com/4erpp8bz

Posted by: I had to do it at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

187 Anna by a mile.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

There was some Russian tennis chick who came along after Anna and was regarded as a much better player. I recall that she was pretty hot, too, but I forget her name.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
____

Back in the day, I dated a Russian former pro tennis player (Elena) who came up in the tennis world with Anna K. Elena was a little younger than Anna, but claimed she won almost all of the matches they played, and would have been a much better player in the pro circuit.

But Anna had access to much more money for tournaments, travel, etc. So Elena eventually couldn't move ahead in the sport.

I was skeptical of this story, so I looked her up. Sure enough, there were records of their matches (in Russian). Elena wasn't bullshitting. And she was attractive too. Not as pretty as Anna, but not far off, and had a smoking body.

She's still one of my FB friends. She did not age well in the face, but the body is still rocking.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

188 Parents who give a daughter an obvious boy name like Kevin or Steve or whatever are just assholes. Imagine every reaction that woman has when meeting someone… oh YOU’RE Kevin? Why do this to your kid?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:00 PM (UJWr0)

189 "minoritized population"

_____________________________

That's got to be a new one. I haven't heard it before. By the premise of applying the "minority" label to behavior, you, basically, are putting the make believe sex changers in the same category of someone who puts peanut butter on pickles. Not many people do, and for good reason.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 02:00 PM (dIske)

190 My objection starts with "if you're not discussing linguistics or electronics, you shouldn't be using the word gender."

Yes! This!

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 02:00 PM (YoUJR)

191 I disagree. It's fundamentally human.

To fully embrace a tranny sex fetish you have to remove the organs that let you enjoy having sex.

That seems onpoint for demonic to me.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

192 I dunno, from an academic perspective, the Bible seems just as important to Western Civ as Plato's Republic.

Posted by: "Non-Academic Sources?" at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (HJUJ8)

193 This brunette in a dress doesn't lament skipping college:
http://tiny.cc/5xsw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (avHHk)

194 No. There isn't.

Just stop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

Dinosaurs -> oil -> petrochemicals -> plastic -> plastic dinosaurs.

Plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.

QED, bitches.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (06Hmj)

195 " slip their balls past their partners"

Comedy gold, Jerry, comedy gold, I tell ya

Posted by: Sphynx at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (P6qMv)

196 3 And evidence outside the Bible that humans walked the earth with dinosaurs.
Posted by: TeeJ

No. There isn't.

Just stop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

This! Stop.
Any God who can make Adam and Eve, can make dinosaur bones.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (2WIwB)

197 I knew it was too good to be true. Plumber just called and there was a shipping delay with my furnace. No install until Friday.

I'm gonna be huddled up like Jacob Marley eating my Christmas pudding.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)

198 My objection starts with "if you're not discussing linguistics or electronics, you shouldn't be using the word gender."

What's its meaning in elecronics?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

199 Dinosaurs -> oil -> petrochemicals -> plastic -> plastic dinosaurs.

Plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.

QED, bitches.

I've seen much less compelling arguments on Facebook...

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (YoUJR)

200 All life turns into oil eventually.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (5DEFi)

201 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (avHHk)

AI does a nice job with babes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (8Xy/A)

202 IIRC Anna K wasn’t really any good. She was a mid level player but hot as fuck and made a ton of money from endorsements and modeling and such. Had she been an average looking woman nobody would have ever heard of her.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (UJWr0)

203 Ditto.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (5xuJ/)

204 > And evidence outside the Bible that humans walked the earth with dinosaurs.

You can't just drop a bombshell like that without linking some sort of source. Unless you're joking, in which case, carry on.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (Yp6az)

205 What are dragons?

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (oHAzj)

206 Samantha Fulneky sounds like a hot tennis player's name. All the hotties have weird last names. Kournikova, Sharapova, Capriati, and so on.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (NYInA)

207 "slip their balls past their partners"

well, in tennis one slips the balls past their opponent, but close enough.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (vbXSk)

208
I'm gonna be huddled up like Jacob Marley eating my Christmas pudding.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)

I'm sorry that's happening during the holidays and I hope you have an electric blanket and a fireplace.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (I7V7v)

209 We are made of tiny particles.

Sunlight is made of tiny particles.

Each new experience or touch interconnects to a new location in your brain.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (EyfuW)

210 Had she been an average looking woman nobody would have ever heard of her.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (UJWr0)

So, like 99.9% of women

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (oHAzj)

211 Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)

I'm so sorry. Is there a warm hotel you could go to until then?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (8Xy/A)

212 IIRC Anna K wasn’t really any good. She was a mid level player but hot as fuck and made a ton of money from endorsements and modeling and such. Had she been an average looking woman nobody would have ever heard of her.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Sharapova was much better, I heard.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

213 Don’t forget to go choiring with your Muslim friends

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (WQ6sk)

214

I had a case of tennis elbow.

But it was better than a case of tennis balls.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:05 PM (oHAzj)

215 Samantha Fulneky sounds like a hot tennis player's name. All the hotties have weird last names. Kournikova, Sharapova, Capriati, and so on.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (NYInA)

Da fuuuuq?
- Cindy Crawford

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:05 PM (UJWr0)

216 > This brunette in a dress doesn't lament skipping college:

From the neck down she's conventionally beautiful. From the neck up, I think she's unconventionally attractive. I'd guess not everyone would feel the same, but she's got something I can't quite name going for her.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:05 PM (Yp6az)

217 I'm gonna be huddled up like Jacob Marley eating my Christmas pudding.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)

Whereas I'm going to be huddled up like Bob Marley with a spliff the size of a table leg 😁

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (YoUJR)

218 I'm gonna be huddled up like Jacob Marley eating my Christmas pudding.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)/i]

Don't you mean Bob Marley?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

219 OU sucks.

But besides that, that's a man, baby!

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (nKjbR)

220 Very short essay.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (5DEFi)

221 I'm gonna be huddled up like Jacob Marley eating my Christmas pudding.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)

Maybe if you'd been nicer to Bob Cratchit, you could go party at his place.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

222 I have an update on that Call of Duty guy, from one of my car buddies (his friend was at the crash).

The guy wasn't burned alive. The seat was ripped out of the car and he was torn in half, with his intestines hanging out. He was apparently alive when he got to the hospital.

If you look closely at that video, you can see them dragging the seat away from the car. There are no legs hanging off the seat. He was cut in half.

Yikes.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

223 Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)

I'm so sorry. Is there a warm hotel you could go to until then?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Just the punchline.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (/lPRQ)

224 Was it a homosexual or did it have its dick cut off?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (Mis34)

225 On the subject of trannies behaving badly, Joey Swoll called out a male tranny filming himself in the women's locker room grabbing his dick through his pants.

Was that wrong? I feel like, if that were wrong, someone would have said something earlier.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (ycI94)

226 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (8Xy/A)

Hey, Fen! You gettin' geared up for Christmas Eve services?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

227 OU sucks.

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (nKjbR)

You'll get no argument from me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

228 holy hell Elric what are you talking about?? someone you know or?

also Jack - you gotta have backup heat. I kiss my wood burning stove ever day lol. we lose power too much around here to not have something like that (and a generator to boot)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (emBoF)

229 This! Stop.
Any God who can make Adam and Eve, can make dinosaur bones.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (2WIwB)

And any God that invented time can do whatever he wants with it.

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (nKjbR)

230 Maybe Trexs wings were made of less dense more biodegradable material.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (5DEFi)

231 I'm glad the student stood up for herself, although It sounds like a stupid assignment. I suppose had he not been fired the entire class would have been- or was- about other left wing idiocies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (8Xy/A)

232 >>I'm so sorry. Is there a warm hotel you could go to until then?

No worries. I have a split heating system with a furnace in the attic that does the second floor and one in the basement that does the top floor so we'll just hang upstairs.

Could be worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (viF8m)

233 > What are dragons?

I think in the Bible context, "dragon" is usually a translation of the Hebrew work, "Tanniyn." I'm no scholar, but I believe, "Tanniyn" is a general use term for a large sea monster, large land monster, serpent, or even dragon. If all that's true, "dragons" in the Bible don't necessarily mean something like Smaug. They could be all sorts of things. This of course assumes too that the authors in those cases weren't being metaphorical.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (Yp6az)

234 The cute tennis player reminds me of a young Linda Ronstadt.

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (nKjbR)

235 Before I got 2 sentences into the post, I predicted that the student was hot as F, and the TA was a repulsive freak. Hooo boy, did I get that one right...

Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:10 PM (XMwZJ)

236 198 My objection starts with "if you're not discussing linguistics or electronics, you shouldn't be using the word gender."
------

And let's not use the word they in place of him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:10 PM (Mis34)

237 And speaking of rejecting "empirical evidence," that's pretty much all the trans weirdos do is reject empirical evidence--I mean, really, there are 57 genders? STFU and STFD.

Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (XMwZJ)

238 holy hell Elric what are you talking about?? someone you know or?

also Jack - you gotta have backup heat. I kiss my wood burning stove ever day lol. we lose power too much around here to not have something like that (and a generator to boot)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (emBoF)
______

It was from a comment in the last thread about the creator of Call of Duty dying in a crash over the weekend. It first appeared he was trapped in the car and burned to death. But I heard (second-hand) from a witness on site what really happened. I didn't know the guy who died.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

239
Sharapova was much better, I heard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

You decide........

https://is.gd/jJQpcb

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

240 I mean, really, there are 57 genders?

Depends on the language.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

241 I have friends close to the situation, graduates of OU and some that live in Norman that are much closer than what's being put on the internet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Okay. Then why fire the TA instead of enforcing the grade? Is she a star player or have a pressure group or something?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)

242 I'm sure many here will agree with this leftist/socialist:

https://youtu.be/LVMXAcSLULU?si=UywiGYpnoHB1gIEc

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (Vh9CX)

243 She plays tennis, too. The two could probably have found common ground by discussing how they try to slip their balls past their partners.

Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM

Her hobby is developing skill with a racket. And so is his!

Posted by: SciVo at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (Sy6m/)

244 Bulg @ 198 -- exactly. Words have gender, people have sex.

Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (XMwZJ)

245 There are historical accounts of dragons. One future leader of a Militant Order was involved. Also Dogmen.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (5DEFi)

246 - Not gonna happen, Bulg.
Go to utube and search "Dinosaurs in the Bible Dr Jason Lisle"
Watch till the end,,, unless you want to remain blind. Up to you.

Then there's also "We predicted this" same guy

Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (T08Hw)

247

Half day for the schools here. Most kids here can walk to and from school.

Listening to them hooping and hollering walking home now is awesome. Brings back memories when I was a kid getting out of school for Christmas break.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (3ek7K)

248 According to the Left there are a million genders and by the way you have to remember every pronoun or you're a bigot. And also the rules might change tomorrow if they feel like it.

Fun world. And they said Republicans would have too many "rules".

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (oHAzj)

249 From my understanding transgender status is no longer protected under Title IX. I hope I am wrong but as a trans people myself I've been extra careful lately.

What, exactly, would you have to be careful about? Hmm???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (3Amc7)

250 Dude, please. LOL

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (dFG8E)

251 Okay. Then why fire the TA instead of enforcing the grade? Is she a star player or have a pressure group or something?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)

Media frenzies tend to be self feeding. That's probably most of it. You got an "It" topic. You got antagonists straight out of central casting.

It's a self sustaining Rohrschach shitstorm. Reality doesn't matter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (06Hmj)

252 Okay. Then why fire the TA instead of enforcing the grade? Is she a star player or have a pressure group or something?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)

No. That's why I think this is a bad look. She's just going after the fact that a troon didn't like her essay in the name of Christian persecution, instead of revealing the troon was actually doing something wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

253 None of our volcanoes are listed by capacity.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (5DEFi)

254 Was it a homosexual or did it have its dick cut off?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (Mis34)

Sad, resentful homo is my guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (dK+Kv)

255 > Any God who can make Adam and Eve, can make dinosaur bones.

I tend to believe in the theory that the Garden of Eden was a localized pocket of no death or decay. My thinking is God prepared the world using direct and indirect processes, and outside of the Garden, a great deal of time passed, including the time of the dinosaurs.

When Adam and Eve fell, the Garden was forbidden, and the Godly influence over it was removed. The Garden over time became like the rest of the world, a fallen place of thorns, thistles, poisonous plants, death, and decay.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (Yp6az)

256 Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

Yes; I will submit the bulletin to the church secretary also known as FenSpouse. Fortunately it's a service of nine lessons and carols so I don't really have to preach. The guy down the road at the historic reformed church has three services-one at 4:30, one at 7:00 and one at 11 pm. I do not plan to be up at 11;00.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (8Xy/A)

257 Are any of these extra genders equipped with anything beyond the usual 2 things?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:15 PM (5DEFi)

258 We're trying to have a civilization here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (06Hmj)

Some of us more than others.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (dK+Kv)

259 The Providence and Brown U. clowns just figured out who to hold accountable for the mass shooting fiasco:
the nearest black guy, the Brown U. Police Chief, has been suspended.

Posted by: ha ha ha ha at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (qUkBO)

260 > There are historical accounts of dragons.

If I were an early explorer and I spotted one of these bad boys, I'd say I'd seen a dragon.

http://tiny.cc/rxsw001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (Yp6az)

261 Are any of these extra genders equipped with anything beyond the usual 2 things?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:15 PM (5DEFi)

There are men.

There are women.

Anything else is a defect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

262 Riding in the F-150 with a prime cut rib roast and a bottle of fine cab sauv that I scored today, and seeing that gas has dropped 50 cents a gallon in the past month ($2.15).

That's living!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (w6EFb)

263
Was it a homosexual or did it have its dick cut off?

Posted by: Braenyard

What??

No surgery/mutilation stops a homo from being a homo.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (TWzjC)

264 The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.
The "academic" paper is kinda bullshit to begin with--because EVERYTHING in middle/high school is associated with popularity/bullying. Doesn't change the fact that there are only two sexes.

Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (XMwZJ)

265 I thought the chief was Columbian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (5DEFi)

266 257 Are any of these extra genders equipped with anything beyond the usual 2 things?
-----------------------
Hermaphrodites do exist and they have both sets of lucky charms. Never met one but I'm told they do pop out every now and then.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (pLaQB)

267 I thought the chief was Columbian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (5DEFi)

How dare you correct someone spewing their racist bullshit on the internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

268 But are there tranny dragons?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (3uBP9)

269 Okay. Then why fire the TA instead of enforcing the grade? Is she a star player or have a pressure group or something?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)

No. That's why I think this is a bad look. She's just going after the fact that a troon didn't like her essay in the name of Christian persecution, instead of revealing the troon was actually doing something wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

I'll accept your premise that she earned the failing grade by failing to submit a paper responsive to the assignment (despite seeing it as at least somewhat responsive from what I have read), but counterpoint:

F, them. War!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)

270 Some of you who are interested might want to watch the documentary "The Ark and the Darkness." It purports to be a scientific explanation for several events described in the Old Testament, particularly the flood and dinosaurs. It's highly religious and accepts the bible as truth.

It was interesting. Was I convinced? No. But some of its critiques of the evolutionary scientists' theories made good points. I have long been skeptical of some evolutionary theories, particularly when it comes to the end of the dinosaurs.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

271 In Spanish, there is a small group of nouns that are one gender in the singular, and switch to the other gender in the plural. So, there are trans nouns!

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

272
Riding in the F-150 with a prime cut rib roast and a bottle of fine cab sauv...
Posted by: Miley

That's nice company to have.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (TWzjC)

273 The cute tennis player reminds me of a young Linda Ronstadt.

But less pokey

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (3Amc7)

274 Riding in the F-150 with a prime cut rib roast and a bottle of fine cab sauv...
Posted by: Miley

That's nice company to have.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (TWzjC)

. . . nobody rides for free.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)

275
Riding in the F-150 with a prime cut rib roast and a bottle of fine cab sauv that I scored today, and seeing that gas has dropped 50 cents a gallon in the past month ($2.15).

Posted by: Miley

This right here is half of the next big Country Music hit song!

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:20 PM (TWzjC)

276 What's its meaning in elecronics?

Usually with wiring, you have male plugs and female sockets, and vice versa.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 02:21 PM (WPL6O)

277 We should get more butcher training in high school.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:21 PM (5DEFi)

278 175 The pedo movement is not "next". The trans movement IS the pedo movement.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (oHAzj)

Yes, and the goal is to turn kids into sex dolls and toss them when they get older.

Posted by: night lifted at December 23, 2025 02:21 PM (/YboP)

279 Yeah, the essay was not particularly great, it didn't have several elements such as citations, and was not especially well written, so it was probably a C- or D paper, but that's not why the tranny flunked her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I would be curious to read any papers that received the highest grade.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (MolB1)

280 112 Who was the hottest woman professional tennis player? Christ Evert? Jennifer Capriati? Anna Kournikova?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

Seriously ... ???

Chrissie was never hot, girl next door cute maybe ... but never hot.

Jenn was cute ... chunky, but cute

Anna was, and still is, incandescently hot

Posted by: browndog rememberes Gabriella Sabatini at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (3sXRv)

281 Hermaphrodites do exist and they have both sets of lucky charms. Never met one but I'm told they do pop out every now and then.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Phil Donahue had one on his show way, way back in the day. I think they usually have one set of genitals removed and then just identify as the sex of the remaining genitals. The one on Donahue's show looked like, and identified as, a woman.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

282 244 Bulg @ 198 -- exactly. Words have gender, people have sex.
Posted by: Barack

When? WHEN!?!?

Posted by: Beavis at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (ycI94)

283 What's its meaning in elecronics?

Usually with wiring, you have male plugs and female sockets, and vice versa.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

OK, that's what I suspected. Didn't know the term "gender" was used for that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

284 I would be curious to read any papers that received the highest grade.

Yeah that would be a good study as well: what did this person consider good work? Was it objectively well done or are they grading on a scale as it were?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (3Amc7)

285 ... but then, the trans TA's rejection of all her arguments was based exclusively on quasi-religious fantasy and myth-making, wasn't it?

------------

Could it be ... "The Father Of Lies?"

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (BQoC+)

286 >>> I'll accept your premise that she earned the failing grade by failing to submit a paper responsive to the assignment (despite seeing it as at least somewhat responsive from what I have read), but counterpoint:

F, them. War!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)

I would also say that the proper response to a nonsense assignment is a nonsense paper. A nice Eastern kōan symmetry to it.

Posted by: banana Dream - Budda abides at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (3uBP9)

287 The University of Oklahoma confirms that Mel Curth, the teaching assistant who gave a student a failing grade on a psychology essay

If a trannie, of all people or things, gives you a failing grade in psychology, isn't that an A+?

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (n9XW8)

288 The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.

---

His question includes the Freudian assertion the "I'm the normal one, you guys were bullied to be the way you are"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (PWcY+)

289
It occurred that all Plumbing fittings have a "gender" to match their shape.

They call a female a "female" because the corresponding "male" fitting goes INTO it, NEVER the other way around.

This can't stand. It's only a matter of time the Perverts demand we stop calling these fittings male & female because it only "reinforces" "anti trans" thinking.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (TWzjC)

290 I would be curious to read any papers that received the highest grade.

Yeah that would be a good study as well: what did this person consider good work? Was it objectively well done or are they grading on a scale as it were?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (3Amc7)

I would put money down that the highest grades were those that confirmed the troons preconceived biases. Such is the way.

Always has been.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (dK+Kv)

291 Phil Donahue had one on his show way, way back in the day. I think they usually have one set of genitals removed and then just identify as the sex of the remaining genitals. The one on Donahue's show looked like, and identified as, a woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

I worked with a woman years ago that was rumored to be a herm.

I never DARED to find out as she was not attractive along with being batshit cray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

292 Tranny tyranny.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (5DEFi)

293 Even hermaphrodites as I understand it are one sex genetically or the other. They just have a flaw which causes sed the extra genitalia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (2vrAX)

294 Hermaphrodites do exist and they have both sets of lucky charms. Never met one but I'm told they do pop out every now and then.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Phil Donahue had one on his show way, way back in the day. I think they usually have one set of genitals removed and then just identify as the sex of the remaining genitals. The one on Donahue's show looked like, and identified as, a woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)
________

There's quite a bit of ancient art and sculpture depicting hermaphrodites, although you won't see it in most museums. There's also a lot of art and sculpture depicting obvious pedophilia. Again: you won't see that in most museums.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

295 Why was only the TA fired and not also the actual professor?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (ZLHME)

296 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

When your ideology is your entire existence.....

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 02:26 PM (M0iC+)

297 I've always been one to think of the raw, materialist account of "how we humans got here" as incredibly miraculous in and of itself. The more we learn about how the universe is constructed, about the history of the planet from the Hadean to the Holocene, the maddening chaos of life for billions of years, culminating in this one species of ugly monkey getting hand picked to bear souls in our Creator's likeness... then the whole spread of recorded human history with its entire focus firmly on some levantine rabble-rousing pest with a nice Jewish mother and a burning hatred of contemporary financial customs...

You really can't take in the whole of the "materialist" history of the universe and mankind without being smacked in the face by the Divinity of it all.

Which makes perfect sense.

God made all this "material" after all, didn't He?

Take the universe as given. Take Scriptures as given. It all fits together, and whatever doesn't seem to fit, give it time. Someone or another will figure it out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:26 PM (06Hmj)

298 260 > There are historical accounts of dragons.

If I were an early explorer and I spotted one of these bad boys, I'd say I'd seen a dragon.

http://tiny.cc/rxsw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (Yp6az)

That's the island that should be selected as the new home of the Palestinians.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 02:28 PM (uWKK8)

299 Incidentally, CNBC today used a still image of Our Favorite President™ and he kinda looked like "Rygel" from Farscape.
Posted by: Soothsayer

--

They are both exalted rulers not appreciated by the small-minded

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 02:28 PM (tG1pe)

300 I would also say that the proper response to a nonsense assignment is a nonsense paper. A nice Eastern kōan symmetry to it.

Posted by: banana Dream - Budda abides at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (3uBP9)

I think rejecting the premise and offering your own alternate premise/conclusion qualifies as a valid "analysis," but I am operating on so little info here as to be uncomfortable arguing that that is what she did or that she did it well as to warrant a passing grade.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)

301 God doesn't make mistakes, fine. But that doesn't stop him from experimenting from time to time.

It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

302
The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.

============

You could do this handily without citng the Bible. Defeat the transjerk on xis own terms.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (n7rxJ)

303 Never met one but I'm told they do pop out every now and then.

I am reasonably sure Jamie Lee Curtis is one

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (3Amc7)

304 Take the universe as given. Take Scriptures as given. It all fits together, and whatever doesn't seem to fit, give it time. Someone or another will figure it out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

This is more or less where I'm at. I have been dealing with the whole creation-evolution question since my early teens. I'm to the point where I don't dismiss either side entirely. The two cannot be completely reconciled, but neither one can or should be dismissed, either. I just trust that at some point in the next life God will make the truth of the matter known to me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

305 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That may be, but I am fine with "fired for 'existing,'" especially in roles that require clarity of thought, being in touch with reality, emotional stability.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)

306
Also, since when is 650 words a college essay?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)

307 650 words is an email.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:31 PM (5DEFi)

308 Also, since when is 650 words a college essay?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)

Since the US dropped out of the top 100 nations in education globally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

309 That may be, but I am fine with "fired for 'existing,'" especially in roles that require clarity of thought, being in touch with reality, emotional stability.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)

There's almost an "Existence Theory of Value" angle I could shoehorn one of my tiresome little hobby horses in, here, isn't there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (06Hmj)

310 303 Never met one but I'm told they do pop out every now and then.

I am reasonably sure Jamie Lee Curtis is one
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (3Amc7)

Only her OBGYN and Nigel Tufnel know for sure.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (yZSOm)

311 lso, since when is 650 words a college essay?

I don't even know what an "S.A." is.

Posted by: Today's College Applicant at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (n9XW8)

312 It would be a real shame if trans teachers were afraid of their students, and had to err on the side of acceptance of beliefs they disagree with. Yep. Real shame. Normal Americans can't possibly understand how that must feel...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (ycI94)

313 Russia is evacuating its diplomats and their families from Venezuela. Seems like Find Out time is coming to Maduro.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)

314
Only her OBGYN and Nigel Tufnel know for sure.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (yZSOm)

Oh, I'm sure she's been on a casting couch or two in her lifetime.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

315 Today is going to suck donkey ass. Leave work at four and be lucky to get home by eight tonight. Have to stop at Sam's, HEB & Kroger.

Or just stop at HEB & Kroger and then go to Sam's & the liquor store tomorrow.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (lEejK)

316 What's its meaning in elecronics?

Usually with wiring, you have male plugs and female sockets, and vice versa.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

OK, that's what I suspected. Didn't know the term "gender" was used for that.
Posted by: Bulg

You'll also hear "gender bender" for a cable or dongle used to connect two things of the same gender.

But we're never sure if a "lesbian USB-A cable" is two plugs (connects two females) or two sockets (is female itself.)

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (M0iC+)

317 280 112 Who was the hottest woman professional tennis player? Christ Evert? Jennifer Capriati? Anna Kournikova?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

Seriously ... ???

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Monica Hingis

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (PWcY+)

318 And that why this is really really really really really really really really really bad.

650 words exactly. You can count em, professor.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (u73oe)

319 You'll also hear "gender bender" for a cable or dongle used to connect two things of the same gender.

But we're never sure if a "lesbian USB-A cable" is two plugs (connects two females) or two sockets (is female itself.)
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (M0iC+)

"That cable's a fag!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

320 I don't even know what an "S.A." is.
Posted by: Today's College Applicant at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (n9XW

College activists, snappy dressers, mostly spoke German.

But that's not important right now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:34 PM (06Hmj)

321 I tend to believe in the theory that the Garden of Eden was a localized pocket of no death or decay. My thinking is God prepared the world using direct and indirect processes, and outside of the Garden, a great deal of time passed, including the time of the dinosaurs.

How long did Adam and Eve live in the Garden before the fall? Was the passage of time the same before the fall as it was after the fall? We have only the metrics of man to base our conclusions on.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 02:34 PM (MolB1)

322 Russia is evacuating its diplomats and their families from Venezuela. Seems like Find Out time is coming to Maduro.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
__________

Russia denies this, but I'm sure it's going on (and has been going on).

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

323
Monica Hingis
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (PWcY+)

Martina Hingis

Monica Seles

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

324 Happy Festivus, everyone.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)

325
They are both exalted rulers not appreciated by the small-minded
Posted by: vmom

What in Hezmana is this?

Tralk!

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (TWzjC)

326 Is it blasphemous to name your sex shop Adam & Eve?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

327 Yeah that is a really short essay length heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (3Amc7)

328 Happy Festivus, everyone.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)

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I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (u73oe)

329 Gabriela Sabatini as she got older

Posted by: NCKate at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (uQzkA)

330
650 words is an email.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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I'm pretty sure some of the reading sections alone in the LSAT and the GRE had passages longer than 650 words.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (n7rxJ)

331 God doesn't make mistakes, fine. But that doesn't stop him from experimenting from time to time.

It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And He will most definitely throw a curve ball from time to time to keep us honest and on our toes.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (OUMaO)

332 326 Is it blasphemous to name your sex shop Adam & Eve?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

No more than any other two people who ever lived, I guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (06Hmj)

333 Is it blasphemous to name your sex shop Adam & Eve?
Posted by: Sponge

Way better than Adam & Steve

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (lEejK)

334
Farscape fans:

What is the word for "balls?"

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (TWzjC)

335 There's almost an "Existence Theory of Value" angle I could shoehorn one of my tiresome little hobby horses in, here, isn't there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (06Hmj)

Don't know, but it would be interesting to read if you did.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

336 Way better than Adam & Steve
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (lEejK)

The hells you say!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

337 How long did Adam and Eve live in the Garden before the fall? Was the passage of time the same before the fall as it was after the fall? We have only the metrics of man to base our conclusions on.

Bible doesn't say, nor does it say that God created nobody except Adam and Eve at the time. Only that they were created first and placed in the garden. Could have been hundreds or thousands of others created, outside the garden. Adam and Eve were representative, not necessarily solo.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (3Amc7)

338 290 I would be curious to read any papers that received the highest grade.

Yeah that would be a good study as well: what did this person consider good work? Was it objectively well done or are they grading on a scale as it were?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (3Amc7)

I would put money down that the highest grades were those that confirmed the troons preconceived biases. Such is the way.

Always has been.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (dK+Kv)

There is a skill to telling the teacher what they want to hear...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (tOcjL)

339 God doesn't make mistakes, fine. But that doesn't stop him from experimenting from time to time.

It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

God only told us what He wanted us to know. Not everything He knows.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (lEejK)

340
I don't even know what an "S.A." is.
Posted by: Today's College Applicant

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Haha!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (n7rxJ)

341 There is a skill to telling the teacher what they want to hear...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (tOcjL)

I haven't learned that too late in life.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:39 PM (dK+Kv)

342 As far as applying rigid academic standards to this essay:

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Ah yes, the good ol' five-paragraph deductive essay.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 02:39 PM (ubGVs)

343
290 I would be curious to read any papers that received the highest grade.

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There may have been some that argued against trans ideology , with logic and facts. For paper is available online , and it's garbage. Not college material at all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:39 PM (n7rxJ)

344 How long did Adam and Eve live in the Garden before the fall?
Posted by: Sock Monkey

That's an interesting question. The Bible would make it seem like the time of residence in the Garden was fairly short, but we really don't know.

Assuming that Adam and Eve took God's commandment to "be fruitful and multiply" seriously, they probably tried baby-making pretty soon after their creation. But in the fall story, there is no indication that they had any children yet (and that would probably contradict the theology of the story, since it would mean that Cain, their eldest child, would have been conceived in prelapsarian conditions).

Interesting question, but unanswerable.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

345 From the "You don't hate the media enough" file:

https://tinyurl.com/4fybyj6m

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (yZSOm)

346 305 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
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Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That may be, but I am fine with "fired for 'existing,'" especially in roles that require clarity of thought, being in touch with reality, emotional stability.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)

Or more specifically, excluding them from those roles that need that until they treat their underlying dysphoria and regain belief in their existence.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (tOcjL)

347 Pscientists think there are 100,000,000,000 planets in this galaxy

and as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the universe

I believe it quite likely there is life throughout the universe

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (ZxPkt)

348 I'm pretty sure some of the reading sections alone in the LSAT and the GRE had passages longer than 650 words.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (n7rxJ)
++++
When I write the Wednesday rant, I target 600-650 words, because if I go meaningfully longer than that, engagement plummets. My first drafts are usually at least 50% longer than that, then I start chopping to try to keep total length under control.

So that's how long the assigned essay was - an average Wednesday rant. As a college assignment. If it wasn't a "write it, edit it and hand it in during this class period as an exercise" assignment, it's really laughable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (avHHk)

349 In a sense that dude is tennis-adjacent. The whole trans thing is ... a racket.

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (H4qGm)

350 Oh cool, ranking tennis hotties. I'm going to have to go with Carson Branstine. Tall women rule.

If you slapped another foot on Martina Hingis and hid her ginormous forehead, she'd be up there too.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)

351 @334 mivonks, you freller

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (2vrAX)

352 Conformity to gender norms occurs because it's normal.

342 words short. Oh well.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (NYInA)

353 I don't even know what an "S.A." is.
Posted by: Today's College Applicant

Student Assistant.
A friendzoned simp who does all of her homework for her while gets cracked by Chad & Tyrone.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (lEejK)

354

So that's how long the assigned essay was - an average Wednesday rant. As a college assignment. If it wasn't a "write it, edit it and hand it in during this class period as an exercise" assignment, it's really laughable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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Precisely.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:41 PM (n7rxJ)

355
mivonks, you freller
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Don't give me any dren.

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:41 PM (TWzjC)

356 Riding in the F-150 with a prime cut rib roast and a bottle of fine cab sauv that I scored today, and seeing that gas has dropped 50 cents a gallon in the past month ($2.15).

Posted by: Miley

This right here is half of the next big Country Music hit song!

Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:20 PM (TWzjC)

You're right about that! Country music is all about relating to the lyrics.

Alas, I have no musical skillz. It's up for grabs. Any songwriters present?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (w6EFb)

357 From the "You don't hate the media enough" file:

https://tinyurl.com/4fybyj6m

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (yZSOm)

To be fair, Axios isn't news.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

358 I believe it quite likely there is life throughout the universe
Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (ZxPkt)
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Believe it or the opposite. We'll likely never know either way. Unless everything we know is wrong (possible, to be sure), interstellar travel is impossible. So long as that remains true, I am not getting worked up about aliens who's existence can only ever be hypothetical.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (avHHk)

359 Argle bargle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

360 I'm sure he'll be back in class soon - probably to shoot the place up.

You know, like a real lady would do.

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (H4qGm)

361 Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
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Considering they can't leave children alone, they are lucky there isn't a bounty on them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (lEejK)

362 There was also "smoking a Camel Turkish Red" in there, but I shouldn't brag about my vices so I cut it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (w6EFb)

363 Dr. Renee Richards

Posted by: Barry Soetero at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (n9XW8)

364 I want to go back to when you never even heard the word trans without am closely following it

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (b/RC2)

365 That is how homosexuals reproduce.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (5DEFi)

366 >>>I don't even know what an "S.A." is.
Posted by: Today's College Applicant

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Haha!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

>Hey, esse, don't Bogart that blunt!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (nljXp)

367 The Bible isn’t an academic source? Well that’s interesting since there’s a lot of content that can be proven through actual, verifiable history and archaeological facts. There is of course a point at which faith takes over, and in the end there is obviously a point at which that takes over, but it’s not a personal ideology.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (wn0/z)

368
If you slapped another foot on Martina Hingis and hid her ginormous forehead, she'd be up there too.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)

she never made it onto any of my 'hot' lists.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

369

new one

Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (3ek7K)

370 I want to go back to when you never even heard the word trans without am closely following it
Posted by: Azjaeger

Or mission.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (lEejK)

371 God doesn't make mistakes, fine. But that doesn't stop him from experimenting from time to time.

It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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You don't want to encounter my earlier efforts. Total weirdos.

Posted by: G-d at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (NYInA)

372 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

373
I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Posted by: Duke Lowell

When everyone you meet is an asshole...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (pkeXY)

374 Day 2 of ribeye steaks from the prime rib roast of the week. Tomorrow, we'll do beef stir fry from the last of the roast.

Boneless ribeye steak is amazing. Hopefully, more can be had in 2026 (I may pick up one more roast tomorrow for the freezer)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (tOcjL)

375 I want to go back to when you never even heard the word trans without am closely following it

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (b/RC2)

This encapsulates everything.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (w6EFb)

376 335 There's almost an "Existence Theory of Value" angle I could shoehorn one of my tiresome little hobby horses in, here, isn't there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (06Hmj)

Don't know, but it would be interesting to read if you did.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

It just sounds like a fascinating inversion, that I can't really be arsed to fully figure out. Take the EToV as given. They're standing it on its head, and saying "not only do you deserve the job you have by virtue of your existence, any effort to remove you from that job is because of your very existence. Not any action. Not even any qualia or quantifier. Just You Existing makes them Hate."

It's lazy in its perversity, and perverse in its laziness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (06Hmj)

377 I would ask that delusional dunce how you change your chromosomes, and maybe go see the biology professor for a primer.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (wn0/z)

378 I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!

Apparently, that character was written to be a quiet and nebbishy Woody Allen type, browbeaten by his abrasive wife, but the actor thought it would be funnier if he was abrasive, too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (3Amc7)

379 Its hard for a twenty year old to believe in so many absolutes. Conflicts stick out. If anybody notices, have them killed.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (EyfuW)

380 Interesting question, but unanswerable.
Posted by: Bulg

Exactly. Personally, I don't need an answer. I have all the evidence I need manifested in my personal experiences to ground my faith in bedrock.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (MolB1)

381 "love is love"

Nope. I don't like penises pretending to be vaginas

It's repulsive

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (rHQec)

382 I hope someone is watching the shooter.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (cS1cw)

383 Trannie got a gun...

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (nljXp)

384 26 Speaking of schools, that's how China is now planning on destroying America from within:

Seems like a waste of money, since public schools do that anyway.
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (YoUJR)

The PRC should just watch its enemies commit suicide.

If they actually read any Sun Tzu, that is.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (Wv0GD)

385 77 The Bible is only the most widely read and thoroughly preserved historical document in the world, and translated into 1,500 or so languages for good measure - what does it know.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (oHAzj)

How about my Little Red Book?

Posted by: Mao at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (Wv0GD)

386 Late to the thread, but a 650 word essay is pretty trivial. I wouldn't expect numerous sources; especially when the assignment was to justify whether or not bullying is involved.

Ironically, the transgender weirdo proved the "yes, it's bullying" side of the argument.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 23, 2025 04:23 PM (pJWtt)

387 Slip balls past partners"" lol. Gonna steal that

Posted by: Jonjay at December 23, 2025 05:02 PM (hWp+g)

388 Ah yes, the days that I thought a 500 word essay was something.

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (Sv5iI)

389 Just tell them to not allow the Door to hit them in the Backside when their leaving the Building

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (wGqjj)

BOOM! US Economy Grows By Big 4.3% In Third Quarter

4.3% is the annualized growth rate. What "annualized" means is "if we took this quarter's actual growth rate and multiplied it by four to find the growth we could expect over an entire year, if it continued."

The actual growth rate for the quarter is then something like 1.08%, but don't worry about that, because we always talk about the annualized growth rate. There is no mathematical manipulation going on to make the number seem bigger than it is. This is how we always measure it.

Just to know how to evaluate GDP growth, here's a quick but Expert primer, because I'm an Expert in literally anything I talk about:

Less than 0% (negative "growth"): the economy shrank. Recessionary.

0%: No growth, and pretty recessionary, because the population always grows. Zero growth thus means that everyone lost a little.

1%: Weak, barely perceptible growth. Either a poor economy or maybe even one about to fall into recession.

2%: Growth, and not really a sign of a recession, but sluggish and unimpressive growth that no one will brag about. Also nothing to panic about. Very meh. To put it terms you can understand, if we were using the Hustler boner meter to rate the economy rather than pornography, it rates one erect penis and one droopy one (out of a possible four erect penises, obviously). It's the "garrett" of economies, then. At this level, the economy is a vaguely unwelcome presence that won't shut up about its bike but you just shrug and just think about the blissful oblivion of death.

3%: Solid growth. No one can dispute the economy is growing. No one would dispute that this is a good solid economy. People's moods will naturally be a little elevated during a period of this level of growth. Think "Jack Straw smoking a bone while steering his yacht with his bare foot and listening to a 15 minute double drum solo." I know that sounds like the Holocaust, but I mean, think about this from Jack Straw's perspective. He likes 15 minute double drum solos because he was raised wrong and don't know no better.

4%: Very high growth. Starting to get into actual "BOOM" territory, if sustained, if it's not just a one-quarter wonder. Think: Me riding down the street on my Vespa, carrying my J. Crew messenger bag, looking at the world with optimism and cheer and thinking of all the vertical surfaces I can stick shelves on.

5%: Outstanding growth. This level is rarely seen and means the economy is running on all 12 cylinders. (Yes, 12 cylinders, it's now a sportscar.) Sustained 5% growth means Golden Times. Think "Sydney Sweeney wearing a low-cut top with beads of golden honey sweat trickling down between her breasts as she washes and details your Camaro." (Artist's conception.)

Clinton had some of this during the internet bubble and the deficit actually fell (despite his best efforts to increase it) because tax takings were so large and welfare spending fell.

This level of extraordinary growth can't be sustained forever, maybe just a year or two. This is about the best level of growth you can realistically hope for.

You occasionally see 6% or 7% quarters -- or even higher -- but usually only in like Latin American countries when they recover from one of their frequent recessions/depressions, or China up to about ten years ago. When it happens in America, it's a one-quarter wonder. I think GWB had one 7.2% quarter but I think that was like six months after the economic apocalypse of 9/11 -- so a one-quarter wonder, with the American economy rebounding back from a deep shock-recession, like Latin American countries do with their always-volatile economies.

Apart from some weird one-off circumstances, like recovering from 9/11, advanced, stable economies almost never grow in a sustained way at these levels.

So, the 4.3% growth is very high and not too far away from "It's Morning in America again."

And it's not even a one-quarter wonder -- the last quarter showed strong 3.8% growth. It looks like it's real and building.

Is the economic turn we desperately need for 2026 and 2028, too, finally here?

Let's hope. It looks good at the moment.

Ed Morrissey:

The US economy grew 4.3% in real gross domestic product in Q3 (annualized), the best quarter of growth in the past two years. It exceeds the 3.8% growth in Q2 that had largely been seen as driven by rebalancing of the trade deficit. It's the first BEA analysis of overall economic activity since September, thanks to the Schumer Shutdown:

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 4.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025 (July, August, and September), according to the initial estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 3.8 percent.
Due to the recent government shutdown, this initial report for the third quarter of 2025 replaces the release of the advance estimate originally scheduled for October 30 and the second estimate originally scheduled for November 26.
The increase in real GDP in the third quarter reflected increases in consumer spending, exports, and government spending that were partly offset by a decrease in investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.
Just to clarify: "real GDP" already accounts for inflation. This is growth above the rate of inflation, annualized for comparative purposes. The last six months of economic activity has shown a combined growth of 4.0% or a bit better, which is a fantastic momentum by anyone's reckoning.

Previous growth was explained away by experts by claiming that the apparent growth was mostly due to technical factors due to Trump's tariffs. (Imports reduce GDP, so reducing them "increases" GDP, at least on paper.)

But Ed Morrissey explains that the new numbers appear to be unaffected by changes in tariff policy. See his post for that. It's dangerously close to math and you know that we do not do that here.

He also notes that the WSJ breaks out my favorite leftwing buzzword: "Unexpectedly."

The U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly robust pace in the third quarter, powered by strong consumer spending.
Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced across the economy, rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted 4.3% annual rate for the July through September quarter, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a shutdown-delayed report.
It was the highest growth rate in two years, and reflected robust spending by consumers on services like healthcare as well as spending on recreational vehicles. Growth picked up from 3.8% in the previous quarter, and beat the 3.2% forecast among economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.

There is a chance this number will be revised down after a time. "Big numbers" are often revised back to be closer to the mean (that is, back to a more moderate level, whether up or down).

But even if it's revised down a touch, it's still a big number.

And it could also be revised up, of course. The leftwing bureaucrats in the BEA always seem to produce bigger initial numbers for Democrats and worse numbers for Republicans than time eventually reveals to be the accurate numbers.

HASSETT: "It's a fantastic [GDP] report � 4.3%. It's just about as good as GDP numbers get... these numbers are showing that @POTUS' trade policy, and his supply-side policy... is having a big effect." pic.twitter.com/TpL6mdeKNZ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 23, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

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1 maybe....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (luW68)

2 FIRST UNTO THE BLADE IS THE BLADE

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

3 Hell yeah! Take that Elric...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (luW68)

4 0%: No growth, and pretty recessionary, because the population always grows. Zero growth thus means that everyone lost a little.

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Well, except right now.

Our population is actually shrinking because of the deportations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

6 That's a big number, the stock market should take off like a rocket in the next couple of weeks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (XV/Pl)

7 Throw the bums out. For the economy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (5DEFi)

8 LOL.. Tha CNN Bimbo with Hassert doesn't look very happy...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

9 It's the "garrett" of economies, then. At this level, the economy is an unwelcome presence that won't shut up about its bike but you just shrug and just think about the blissful oblivion of death.

Wait.......so he DOES read the comments!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:15 PM (Zz0t1)

10 I for one am worried about inflation

Posted by: banana Dream - IN MY PANTS! at December 23, 2025 12:15 PM (3uBP9)

11 Gee, it's almost like The Blade has been shouting about the strong economy from the rooftops for all of 2025 ....

Trust The Blade. He knows things.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:15 PM (iFTx/)

12 If the economy stay strong look for COVID OP DEUX - HAIL MARY BOOGALOO.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 12:15 PM (XV/Pl)

13 Um....

Can I take the Sydney Sweeney version, please? And not the Garrett one?

Not sure about Ace on a vespa thinking about shelving. What about if instead he is hunting down the main ingredient for hobo stew? More appetizing a picture!

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 23, 2025 12:16 PM (/ZkOF)

14 You know what they say, tossing deadweight overboard lifts all boats.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 12:16 PM (6LzyB)

15 They need to end EBT to stave off food inflation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:16 PM (5DEFi)

16 Hell yeah! Take that Elric...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (luW6

________

[Kicks rock]

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

17 You occasionally see 6% or 7% quarters -- or even higher -- but usually only in like Latin American countries when they recover from one of their frequent recessions/depressions, or China up to about ten years ago.

Reflecting the fact that the economy was underperforming, usually for governmentally-caused reasons.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

18 Retarded people are bad for the economy?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (5DEFi)

19 CNN broad looks like she was weaned on a pickle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (npFr7)

20 Also, someone much more talented than I (Anna, maybe?) should totally give us some renderings of these comparisons. Made safe for work for the Garrett and Jackstraw ones, of course.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (/ZkOF)

21 thank you joe biden! while all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even hunter, who has his own ideas for what a spoon is for snort snort

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (CWTWj)

22 If they’re always wrong, they’re not really experts, are they?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (u73oe)

23 Think: Me riding down the street on my Vespa, carrying my J. Crew messenger bag, looking at the world with optimism and cheer and thinking of all the vertical surfaces I can stick shelves on.

*starts humming "Happy Days Are Here Again"*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB)

24 The growth is excellent news. For our side - defined as normal Americans who love their country. To all others this sounds like maybe they need to manufacture another case of the sniffles, shut down the economy and kill a few million more people. You know...to stop the Orange Fascist.

Is Fauci in jail yet or is he still walking free?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (gqsiU)

25 Is it something that's improving the lot of all, or even most, Americans? Or just the uppers padding their nests a bit more?

That is what matters. I've had my fill of "growth" that never benefits average folk, but makes the ultra rich even richer.

I may be souring on "supply-side" in a "morality-optional" world, why do you ask?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (OUMaO)

26 So honey covered bewbs is good.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (pLaQB)

27 I'm not going to comment on this info until I hear what Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson or Mark Levin have to say about Israel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

28 I just did my annual reread of the 1949 WSJ editorial In Hoc Anno Domini. It delivers different messages each year. This year, is speaking to Trump's already-waning 2nd term and the need for him to move quickly.

I recommend it highly. It can take some work to find a free version, but it is worth it.

Posted by: 496 at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (uC8L0)

29 Sweet.
And good morning Ace.

If I don't get the chance later, Merry Christmas too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

30 Finally a post written in terms I easily understand.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (xSk1L)

31 11 Gee, it's almost like The Blade has been shouting about the strong economy from the rooftops for all of 2025 ....

Trust The Blade. He knows things.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:15 PM (iFTx/)

=======

I still feel like we're going to be seeing weird topline numbers, and this may be part of it, as the economy redirects from the foreign-born focused to the native born focused.

Especially in employment numbers.

With the huge power of the executive, too, a Democrat Congress won't be able to derail much.

Still, the YouGov poll they released this morning is D+3. They had a D+4 in September of 2023.

No idea what 2026 will bring, but...normal political gravity seems to have possibly shifted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

32 2%: Growth, and not really a sign of a recession, but sluggish and unimpressive growth that no one will brag about. Also nothing to panic about. Very meh. To put it terms you can understand, if we were using the Hustler boner meter to rate the economy rather than pornography, it rates one erect penis and one droopy one (out of a possible four erect penises, obviously). It's the "garrett" of economies, then

How does the "flaming clown boner" factor affect the result?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

33 "This is how we always measure it."

You mean, "this is how we used to measure it"

-- the MSM

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (OGOaV)

34 But . . .

. . . what about AFFORDABILITY?

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (KiBMU)

35 Cheaper fast food? No EBT for McDonalds.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (5DEFi)

36 There is a chance this number will be revised down after a time.

Maybe I missed it but have President Trump's numbers ever been revised downward? Usually its the other way around.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (2WIwB)

37 Garrett has two dicks? I did not expect to read that in an economics lecture.

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (mmFQG)

38 "Clinton had some of this during the internet bubble and the deficit actually fell (despite his best efforts to increase it) because tax takings were so large and welfare spending fell."

and gingrich and the repubs in congress had nothing to do with it? but yeah the intel pentium had a lot to do with it, i think

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (CWTWj)

39 Joe Biden could have done that; he just didn't want to.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at December 23, 2025 12:20 PM (wt98q)

40 Garrett has two dicks? I did not expect to read that in an economics lecture.

Pffffft.

Posted by: George Washington at December 23, 2025 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

41 "4%: Very high growth. Starting to get into actual "BOOM" territory, if sustained, if it's not just a one-quarter wonder. Think: Me riding down the street on my Vespa, carrying my J. Crew messenger bag, looking at the world with optimism and cheer and thinking of all the vertical surfaces I can stick shelves on."

There are a couple of questions that come up now:

1. If the economy is growing like this, is there a need to lower interest rates further, which could risk inflation. The Fed doves like Stephen Miran (Trump's temporary Fed governor) and Trump's Fed Chair replacement would have to balance that with Trump's wrath if rates don't go down further, as he would like.

2. Is Garrett riding the back of Ace's Vespa, with his arms around his waist while wearing sparkly red Crocs as they ride down to the local Home Depot to get more fixtures for Ace's new shelves?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:21 PM (0CU3H)

42 No idea what 2026 will bring, but...normal political gravity seems to have possibly shifted.
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Methinks Venezuela and Cuber become open societies, once again.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:21 PM (pLaQB)

43
If I don't get the chance later, Merry Christmas too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

Merry Christmas to ALL you M F'ers........well, most........Ah to heck with it.

ALL!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

44 >>>and gingrich and the repubs in congress had nothing to do with it? but yeah the intel pentium had a lot to do with it, i think

yeah they restrained spending BUT the driver of the surplus was the boom. Without the boom, the deficit would have just narrowed a bit.

I'm not giving Al Gore, Creator the Internet, credit. It's just that the internet boom came when it did. Clinton was the accidental beneficiary.

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 23, 2025 12:21 PM (1wjle)

45 What about if instead he is hunting down the main ingredient for hobo stew?

Rumor has it Marco Rubio's garbage is back on the menu.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:21 PM (QZThv)

46 I don't think there's a subtle way of stating this, so I'll just go with the obvious: that Boston mayor Wu is one dumb bitch.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (TN0g+)

47
Hopefully Santa brings good sense to the naysayers here.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (3ek7K)

48 I dunno. There was some confusing borderline math there, Flaming Skull notwithstanding.

Posted by: Illiterate, Innumerate, Sometimes Incontinent at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (oftw2)

49 Newsrooms are frantically trying to make it a bad thing or tell us how Biden laid the groundwork for the boom.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (lXoJ5)

50 You say tomato
And I say... no NATO!

https://tinyurl.com/stvkpk6k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (KgVf3)

51
Quick! More Epstein/Trump files!!!

-Dems

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (IifOV)

52 Finally a post written in terms I easily understand.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 23, 2025 12:19 PM (xSk1L)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)

53 It will be revised up. Put Bessie and Chickchick and the rest of the farm on it.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:23 PM (oHAzj)

54
>>>If the economy is growing like this, is there a need to lower interest rates further, which could risk inflation

good point, they usually do not lower rates during a boom.

But if they don't lower rates, inflation will fall more, which is good.

I don't think they'll raise them. This isn't a bubble. This isn't driven by "irrational exuberance."

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 23, 2025 12:23 PM (1wjle)

55 CNN girl looks like Charlie sent an iron dildo up her butt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:24 PM (Mis34)

56 Garrett has two dicks? I did not expect to read that in an economics lecture.
Posted by: Kratwurst

There was a woman named Myrtle Corbin (1868-192

who had four legs, two on the left side of her body, and two on the right. She also had to uteruses, one on the left and one on the right. And she had 5 children.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

57 Clinton was also helped by i) cell phones started taking off and ii) personal computers began to boom (lots of companies had monitors that went to the company's computer. In the 90's desktop computers became ubiquitous IMO)

Posted by: 496 at December 23, 2025 12:24 PM (uC8L0)

58 40 Garrett has two dicks? I did not expect to read that in an economics lecture.

Pffffft.
Posted by: George Washington at December 23, 2025 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

LOL

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (xcxpd)

59 Is Garrett riding the back of Ace's Vespa, with his arms around his waist while wearing sparkly red Crocs as they ride down to the local Home Depot to get more fixtures for Ace's new shelves?
Posted by: Darrell Harris
_

Thanks for that very disturbing mental image.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (22p5n)

60 2. Is Garrett riding the back of Ace's Vespa, with his arms around his waist while wearing sparkly red Crocs as they ride down to the local Home Depot to get more fixtures for Ace's new shelves?

And how will he accessorize the Crocs. Perhaps heels?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wtj1l3ykvGs?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

61 Think "Jack Straw smoking a bone while steering his yacht with his bare foot and listening to a 15 minute double drum solo."

Jack Straw is a faig? Smoking a bone?

Huh......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

62 Saved by Kamalanomics! Trump took all his ideas from the black woman!

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (oHAzj)

63 52- awesome song!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (xSk1L)

64 There was a woman named Myrtle Corbin (1868-192 who had four legs, two on the left side of her body, and two on the right. She also had to uteruses, one on the left and one on the right. And she had 5 children.
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This sound like maff and stuff.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (pLaQB)

65 With all of this good economic news, what we really need is....

Well... Nothing...

Just hopefully the American People Don't Do Something Stupid Like elect Democrats in 2026.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

66
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wtj1l3ykvGs?feature=share
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

Big gurl gonna strike oil walking around in those stiletto heals.

I'd rather see the broad with the big boobs telling me why she hates those.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

67 Is the economic turn we desperately need for 2026 and 2028, too, finally here?

Let's hope. It looks good at the moment.
++++
It looks, at best, okay. The major drivers were "consumer spending" and "government." Government is, optimistically, neutral. Government spending should not count as positive in GDP, but I am tired of tilting at that particular windmill. On the "consumer" side, the primary good driver was motor vehicles (not bad) and "information processing equipment" (danger). The primary services driver was, again, medical services (danger), then other professional services (probably good).

This is a YUGE print, but pull AI bubble components out of it, along with continued runaway medical costs, and it is much, much softer. Recent employment reports have also not been anything like as promising as their headline numbers might indicate.

I am not shouting "DOOM" from the rooftops by any means, but the AI bubble, government and runawaymedical costs are keeping things afloat right now. If AI pops next year, look the hell out.

I love a good print, of course, but this is not as rosy at it might appear at first blush.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:26 PM (avHHk)

68 Just hopefully the American People Don't Do Something Stupid Like elect Democrats in 2026.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

You mean you hope 40 Republicans don't retire and usher them in almost like they are being compensated to do so.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:26 PM (oHAzj)

69 Any man who accessorizes Crocs spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at December 23, 2025 12:26 PM (wt98q)

70 Merry Christmas to ALL you M F'ers........well, most........Ah to heck with it.

ALL!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge
___

Mele Kalikimaka to you too!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 12:26 PM (22p5n)

71 Pop open the champagne early?

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (ftFVW)

72 The worst non Canadian whiskey company is shutting down for a year.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (5DEFi)

73 This isn't news or scandalous, though the poster wants it to be:

https://tinyurl.com/45kyad45

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (KgVf3)

74 I'm super stoked today. On this day, this very morning I had a big boy poopy.

And after a week of digestive problems from hell, 100 bathroom trips a day, thermonuclear bowel launches, an actual real normal bowel movement was so great. I think my butt didn't know what to do at first, "Hey,... oh no, what?, no this is new..." but it was all systems normal. And I am so proud.

I honestly want the full toddler's first potty treatment now. I wanted applause, I truly wish all of you, my beloved internet friends, were there with me to celebrate, maybe a holding a handmade sign and throwing confetti, and then you'd all take me to toys-r-us for a present.

Anyway, wanted to share.

Posted by: banana Dream - THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

75 that Boston mayor Wu is one dumb bitch.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 12:22 PM (TN0g+)

Who's worse: Her or the dumb f*cking retards that elected her?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

76 But if they don't lower rates, inflation will fall more, which is good.

I don't think they'll raise them. This isn't a bubble. This isn't driven by "irrational exuberance."

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 23, 2025 12:23 PM (1wjle)

This makes me wonder about whether Greenspan actually needed to raise rates in the late 90s to kill 'irrational exuberance'. We didn't have inflation then, and we didn't have high unemployment - to the contrary, the Internet boom was getting us towards full employment, and we were on our way to paying down the deficit. I'd argue that Greenspan taking away the punch bowl when it wasn't necessary artificially stalled the economy and plunged us into an unnecessary recession.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (0CU3H)

77 I think Ace's commentary on the 0% to 5% growth is funny and clever, but I disagree a bit on the numbers.

Although Ace mostly poo-poos 2% growth, it's actually pretty good. 2-3% is considered a kind of sweet spot for good, solid growth without risk of overheating. Most economists -- spit -- would take a consistent 2-3% over anything else.

Remember: these percentages are after inflation.

4+% GDP growth is raging, and 5+% is Lambo Time. The risks with these kind of growth rates is that things can overheat. So the over-under on when the media will start whining about the economy overheating is ... 48 hours?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

78 Did not expect Cool Hand Luke this morning. But that scene is very educational.

"Wiping it off here, boss" indeed....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:28 PM (xcxpd)

79 Afternoon Ace.
A less than 0% growth on the Hustler boner scale is a drunken naked Hillary Clinton covered in vomit climbing into your bed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 12:28 PM (2vrAX)

80 This isn't news or scandalous, though the poster wants it to be:

https://tinyurl.com/45kyad45
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (KgVf3)

Age verification.

Sads.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

81 I am not shouting "DOOM" from the rooftops by any means
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I wonder what Monty would've made of Trump.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)

82 But...but...what about Trump's "disturbing manic cadence?!"

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 12:28 PM (qBdHI)

83 Found out earlier. Someone axed about the market.
As I was writing a response a text came in advising that a pos equity that had been up for sale over six freaking months SOLD.

There is no reason for it to sell other than sentiment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (Mis34)

84 72 The worst non Canadian whiskey company is shutting down for a year.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (5DEFi)

Which one?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (xcxpd)

85 Myrtle Corbin coined the phrase "Four legs good-two legs bad".

Posted by: Tough To Find Pants, Though at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (oftw2)

86
I honestly want the full toddler's first potty treatment now. I wanted applause, I truly wish all of you, my beloved internet friends, were there with me to celebrate, maybe a holding a handmade sign and throwing confetti, and then you'd all take me to toys-r-us for a present.

Anyway, wanted to share.
Posted by: banana Dream - THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

This place.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

87
Which one?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (xcxpd)

Jim Beam, I believe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

88 Looking through NOAA's weather API, I see an api key, Waning Gibbous.

I've always hated it when my Gibbous Wanes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (XV/Pl)

89 Jim Beam.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (5DEFi)

90 "unexpectedly" is a fun word when it comes to economics.
For 4 years "Unexpectedly" always preceded lower gains than predicted by the "experts" during Biden's tenure.
Now it precedes gains above the "experts" predictions.

If you ask me, I think we need better experts.

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (kp5iD)

91 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:26 PM (avHHk)

There is no point in cherrypicking the data, not the least of which because all our enemies do is lie anyway.

But when an RB in football has a great stat line for the year, you'll always get dudes who say "well if you take his five longest runs away, his numbers are very average". Silly game.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (oHAzj)

92
Uh, some things don't need to be "shared."

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (3ek7K)

93 Unexpertedly

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (oHAzj)

94 54 good point, they usually do not lower rates during a boom.

But if they don't lower rates, inflation will fall more, which is good.

I don't think they'll raise them. This isn't a bubble. This isn't driven by "irrational exuberance."

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 23, 2025 12:23 PM (1wjle)

=====

Interest rates on government debt doesn't affect inflation. If it did, we'd have massive inflation during Obama's years.

The argument is that more people are asking for loans and then fractional reserve banking lets banks print more money. But that's not how it works.

Fractional reserve banking does allow banks to lend out more than they have, but they don't print the currency. The Fed prints the currency.

So, if banks are suddenly able to increase their lending capabilities, it's not because someone invested $1 and then they can lend out $9 more automatically. It's that the Fed has decided to print more money to lend to banks.

The point of lowering interest rates now has nothing to do with inflation. It has to do with saving hundreds of billions on government debt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

95 Is that Navy Cop Joe?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (5DEFi)

96 Woot!!! We're rich!!!!

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (lCppi)

97 72 The worst non Canadian whiskey company is shutting down for a year.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (5DEFi)
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"When used as directed, it will get you drunk."

Posted by: 496 at December 23, 2025 12:31 PM (uC8L0)

98 Who's worse: Her or the dumb f*cking retards that elected her?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:31 PM (oHAzj)

99 The worst non Canadian whiskey company is shutting down for a year.

If it's the one going around on X, that's a Democrat lie. They're shutting down and remodeling the visitor center, the actual production line's full speed ahead.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:31 PM (QZThv)

100 I love a good print, of course, but this is not as rosy at it might appear at first blush.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:26 PM (avHHk)

======

That it's happening while our population is actually decreasing slightly is what is most important in my eyes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

101
But when an RB in football has a great stat line for the year, you'll always get dudes who say "well if you take his five longest runs away, his numbers are very average". Silly game.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (oHAzj)

Pet peeve:

Why is it that everywhere on the field, hands to the face is illegal, unless you're carrying the football. In THAT situation, you can grab a f*ckers facemask and throw him to the ground and keep on truckin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

102 89 Jim Beam.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:29 PM (5DEFi)

Wow.

Yeah, not my favorite by a long shot but...not great news.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

103 74 I'm super stoked today. On this day, this very morning I had a big boy poopy.

And after a week of digestive problems from hell, 100 bathroom trips a day, thermonuclear bowel launches, an actual real normal bowel movement was so great. I think my butt didn't know what to do at first, "Hey,... oh no, what?, no this is new..." but it was all systems normal. And I am so proud.

I honestly want the full toddler's first potty treatment now. I wanted applause, I truly wish all of you, my beloved internet friends, were there with me to celebrate, maybe a holding a handmade sign and throwing confetti, and then you'd all take me to toys-r-us for a present.

Anyway, wanted to share.
Posted by: banana Dream - THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

As the saying goes, sorrow shared is halved and joy shared is doubled.

If that's the case, what the heck is this?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (0CU3H)

104 73 This isn't news or scandalous, though the poster wants it to be:

https://tinyurl.com/45kyad45
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (KgVf3)

I'd say it was in reference to Bill Clinton

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

105 also... during clinton's 2nd term, social security was folded into the budget, with the result that the s.s. surplus covered up the fed gov't budget deficit. steve moore pointed out years ago that the same year the gov't supposedly ran a surplus the nation debt still increased

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (CWTWj)

106 Woot!!! We're rich!!!!
Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (lCppi)

"Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet, gentlemen."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

107 The point of lowering interest rates now has nothing to do with inflation. It has to do with saving hundreds of billions on government debt.
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Which a large chunk of going to China.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (pLaQB)

108 That CNN gal was suffering, reporting on a Trump success

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (jvxGE)

109 Really. They were whining about job losses even.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (5DEFi)

110 Wait until 2026. The seeds Bessant and Trump have been planting are like nothing ever before.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (WHfpM)

111 Wow.

Yeah, not my favorite by a long shot but...not great news.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

Sales are down and they're overstocked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

112 Anyway, wanted to share.
Posted by: banana Dream - THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER at December 23, 2025 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

If you do a Christmas letter, please add me to your list.

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (lCppi)

113 Is the economic turn we desperately need for 2026 and 2028, too, finally here?

Noooo! That's not true! That's impossible!

Posted by: Mark Hamill screaming every morning at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (D0HYP)

114
Yes.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:31 PM (oHAzj)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

115 What nefarious plans do the Democrats/GOPe have in the works to tank the economy just before the midterms?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (ESVrU)

116 The worst non Canadian whiskey company is shutting down for a year.
Posted by: Boss Moss

===

I was reading that, I guess the canadians have done a good job boycotting American goods. Something like a 60% drop in canadian exports of Jim Bean.

I was never really interested in a trade war with canada, but I now find myself hoping Trump destroys their economy.

Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (eIzlH)

117 Yeah, not my favorite by a long shot but...not great news.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

Fake news. Democrats trumpeted it as the company going out of business, but they're actually just closing the visitor center for a year to remodel and actual production is not affected. Hopefully not the way Cracker Barrel remodeled.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:34 PM (QZThv)

118 The new narrative will be that the economy is growing too fast and recklessly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (WHfpM)

119 Thanks for the educational column - best present so far. I also hope they catch Ng One before he murders someone else.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (GPa4z)

120 Why is it that everywhere on the field, hands to the face is illegal, unless you're carrying the football. In THAT situation, you can grab a f*ckers facemask and throw him to the ground and keep on truckin.
Posted by: Sponge
___

70s football was so much fun to watch...*sigh*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (22p5n)

121 Even if the economy was straight up in boom times that nobody could contradict, I still see the GOP having a lousy upcoming midterms.

Just the way it is. voters are dumb.

Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (eIzlH)

122 I'd say it was in reference to Bill Clinton

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)
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No. Check the date. Still a nothing burger. Do you have a concern otherwise?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (KgVf3)

123
Waiting on It'sGoTimeDonald to tell us how terrible this is.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (3ek7K)

124 117 Yeah, not my favorite by a long shot but...not great news.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

Fake news. Democrats trumpeted it as the company going out of business, but they're actually just closing the visitor center for a year to remodel and actual production is not affected. Hopefully not the way Cracker Barrel remodeled.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:34 PM (QZThv)

A quick look at Kentucky news outlets indicates that they are in fact shutting down production at Claremont for a full year. They have other sites that are still producing.

Still...not good news. Buy your Basil Hayden now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (xcxpd)

125 jim beam is NOT shutting down for a year. they are shifting everything to their second location which is about five miles away.

Posted by: nckate at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (uQzkA)

126 What nefarious plans do the Democrats/GOPe have in the works to tank the economy just before the midterms?
_

War with Russia would be my guess.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (22p5n)

127 Anyway, wanted to share.
Posted by: banana Dream - THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

I'm used to all sorts of shit being shared here, but this may take the cake.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (OUMaO)

128 As the saying goes, sorrow shared is halved and joy shared is doubled.

If that's the case, what the heck is this?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (0CU3H)

Literally shit.

Posted by: Being literally literal at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (TbWk/)

129 There are better cheap bourbons than Jim Beam.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (5DEFi)

130 The new narrative will be that the economy is growing too fast and recklessly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (WHfpM)

No it will be something like all Trump cares about is the economy and himself. He's hurting browns and women but some piddly numbers are up and he's happy.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (oHAzj)

131 Fake news. Democrats trumpeted it as the company going out of business, but they're actually just closing the visitor center for a year to remodel and actual production is not affected. Hopefully not the way Cracker Barrel remodeled.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:34 PM (QZThv)

Huh.
Step one, fire their social media director. The rumor has gotten way out of hand.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (2WIwB)

132
No. Check the date. Still a nothing burger. Do you have a concern otherwise?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarke

No... But my take was he said President ... He didn't say current President and at this time Trump and he were enemies...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (VE6XX)

133 Also, lefties want everyone to know that due to USAID shutting down, rape victims in Africa will now die of AIDS. People were saying "aren't the rapists the problem, not Trump?" and getting the blue-haired shrieking "Trump is also a rapist!" in response. Good times.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (QZThv)

134 re: the nothingburger letter

This was written when Epstein was constantly attacking Trump in letters and emails. He hated him. He had reason to smear Trump.

Also, fun fact, "nubile" means "sexually mature, of marriageable age." That's probably not how this pedophile meant it, but that's the definition.

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 23, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle)

135 There are better cheap bourbons than Jim Beam.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (5DEFi)

Indeed.
All of them.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:37 PM (2WIwB)

136 131 Huh.
Step one, fire their social media director. The rumor has gotten way out of hand.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:36 PM (2WIwB)

=======

"I gotta go out and buy more Jim Beam before the shelves are empty!"

"Give the social media director a raise."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

137 Had we been able to clone Myrtle Corbin, America's shoe industry could have been saved. And Piper would have twice as much to school us about.

Posted by: Buster Brown (and Tige) at December 23, 2025 12:37 PM (oftw2)

138 108 That CNN gal was suffering, reporting on a Trump success
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (jvxGE)
Looked like a loosing fight against loosing a SBD,

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 12:37 PM (LHPAg)

139 --------------
Which a large chunk of going to China.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (pLaQB)

Suppose, and I'm just spitballin' here, Trump's "600,000 students from China" thing is a slight of hand play to get a small portion of that money BACK in the US?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

140 My favorite Economists?

Ludwig Von Mises, and ACE!!!

Posted by: Ed at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (z6Sq8)

141 Yeah, not my favorite by a long shot but...not great news.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

Sales are down and they're overstocked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

Very sad. I like Maker's Mark and Basil Hayden is ok, overpriced maybe, but Jim Bean itself I only use in mixed drinks.

But I like bourbon and I hope the industry rebounds.
Also I hope I get Buffalo Trace for Christmas.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (xcxpd)

142 you can grab a f*ckers facemask and throw him to the ground and keep on truckin.

They can stiff-arm the facemask, but even they are not allowed to grab it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (6LzyB)

143 Looking through NOAA's weather API, I see an api key, Waning Gibbous.

I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you have an api key

Posted by: Melanie at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (D0HYP)

144 There are a couple of questions that come up now:

1. If the economy is growing like this, is there a need to lower interest rates further, which could risk inflation. The Fed doves like Stephen Miran (Trump's temporary Fed governor) and Trump's Fed Chair replacement would have to balance that with Trump's wrath if rates don't go down further, as he would like.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Most current macro models are bullshit. Inflation is mainly a monetary issue where too much money from deficits are chasing too few goods. The key is productivity increases among the native population can produce more goods at the same or lower price and channelling money into investment instead of purchase of goods, also means future productivity increases where future workers produce more goods at the same or lower prices.

Virtuous cycle.

Instead Social Welfare Economics focuses on consumer demand and government spending which almost always shrivels investment and thus productivity. Not virtuous cycle.

Biden era led to massive deficit spending pushing exploding the G portion of GDP while productivity decreased in mfg and was stagnant in services. Led to massive inflation.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)

145 If true, interesting Mossad/Shin Bet operation:

https://tinyurl.com/4ew43spd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (KgVf3)

146 But when an RB in football has a great stat line for the year, you'll always get dudes who say "well if you take his five longest runs away, his numbers are very average". Silly game.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:30 PM (oHAzj)
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That it is, but I think that it's also not a valid comparison. Two of the four major non-government drivers of growth in the quarter represent investment dislocation and major opportunity costs as a result. This was not a bad print and I didn't say it was, but I don't see roaring strength in it, either.

The AI bubble is so tremendous, though, that it *does* have me extremely worried.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (avHHk)

147 bD,

Merry Christmas...

https://tinyurl.com/4a4cd76e

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (wt98q)

148 I don’t want to go on the cart!

Posted by: Jim Beam at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (u73oe)

149 Previous growth was explained away by experts by claiming that the apparent growth was mostly due to technical factors due to Trump's tariffs. (Imports reduce GDP, so reducing them "increases" GDP, at least on paper.)

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Distortions due to the government shutdown.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (GPa4z)

150 This was written when Epstein was constantly attacking Trump in letters and emails. He hated him. He had reason to smear Trump.

Also, fun fact, "nubile" means "sexually mature, of marriageable age." That's probably not how this pedophile meant it, but that's the definition.
Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 23, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle)

I learned this from the educational website 'nubiles.net'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

151 Think I’ll go for a walk.

Posted by: Jim Beam at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (u73oe)

152 Wow.

Yeah, not my favorite by a long shot but...not great news.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

Sales are down and they're overstocked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
_________

It's mostly fake news and an op to try to blame Trump. Literally every article -- every single one -- gleefully mentions tariffs as the main or one of the main causes. Tariffs have nothing whatsoever to do with this.

The reality is the bourbon industry -- and whiskey in general -- exploded over the last 10-15 years and were stuffing their pockets with money. The industry's revenue was up like 600% in 15 years. Prices spiked, brands became hard to find, and the industry laughed all the way to the bank.

That was unsustainable. So the inevitable happened. The party is over and the industry is stuck with a glut of inventory.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

153 149 Distortions due to the government shutdown.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (GPa4z)

======

Okay. Shut down the government some more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

154 Huh.
Step one, fire their social media director. The rumor has gotten way out of hand.
Posted by: Diogenes

==

I think it's probably more "we're going to say it's a remodel, but the real reason is cutting back production because of weak demand"

It's a single data point, it's not like the economy lives and dies by a liquor brand, but there's all sorts of non-fake news data that shows bourbon sales are way down. Alcohol sales in general are just down, younger people don't drink as much alcohol is part of it. I also think some of these American boycotts are part of it. Canada went to the length of pulling American liquor off of their store shelves as a middle finger.

Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (eIzlH)

155 Also, fun fact, "nubile" means "sexually mature, of marriageable age." That's probably not how this pedophile meant it, but that's the definition.

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 23, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle)
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Precisely. Already known nothingburger.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (KgVf3)

156 Great writing Ace. I can just see you zipping down the street on your vespa, j. Crew bag over your shoulder, beret atop your head, grinning like a kid on Christmas morning as you make you way down to the local....

Posted by: Simplemind at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (shH1w)

157 FWIW, DoL had productivity growth for Q2 2025 at 3.3 percent. Labor costs at 1.0 percent increase.

Durable goods productivity in particular hit just under the 3.3 average with almost no labor cost increase (.3)

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)

158 I feel happy! I feel happy!

Posted by: Jim Beam at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (u73oe)

159 Couldn't they make products that people wanted at Jim Beam like Buffalo Trace?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:41 PM (5DEFi)

160 Hey look, it's a recent photo of Vince Zampella. (burning skull).

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 12:41 PM (dIske)

161 The most important stat for a QB is yards per attempt. If a QB is completing 50% of his passes with YPA of 10, he is a legend. A QB completing 70% of his passes with a YPA of 6 might be okay, but I'm not interested in watching him play.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 12:41 PM (GPa4z)

162 bD,

Merry Christmas...

https://tinyurl.com/4a4cd76e

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (wt98q)
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The other BD.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (KgVf3)

163 "unexpectedly" is a fun word when it comes to economics.
For 4 years "Unexpectedly" always preceded lower gains than predicted by the "experts" during Biden's tenure.
Now it precedes gains above the "experts" predictions.

If you ask me, I think we need better experts.
Posted by: Dave's not here
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Somewhere, I have cartoon extracted from the NR. It depicts a hospital room, with an obviously sick guy lying in bed behind a room curtain. In the foreground is a huddled group of three doctors. One is saying to the others, 'We've got to be careful with this one, he's an economist, so he's familiar with guesswork'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (XeU6L)

164 But I like bourbon and I hope the industry rebounds.
Also I hope I get Buffalo Trace for Christmas.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (xcxpd)

Wife actually found some down here and gave me a bottle for my birthday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

165 FWIW, DoL had productivity growth for Q2 2025 at 3.3 percent. Labor costs at 1.0 percent increase. ...
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)
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That is a very nice print for the enterprise. Not so much for labor, but not terrible. If *that* keeps up, except the gap to narrow sometime around Q2/Q3 next year and for labor costs to increase. That would not be a bad thing at all, election-wise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (avHHk)

166 The AI bubble is so tremendous, though, that it *does* have me extremely worried.

The consumer-facing chatbots and deepfakes part hasn't found a business model that works yet, but the B2B end is doing pretty well. I don't think there's gonna be a crash like the dotcom one in the early 2000s, more like a correction.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)

167 Oh right so the lib argument against the good economic numbers is even more predictable:

"Epstein"

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (oHAzj)

168 164 But I like bourbon and I hope the industry rebounds.
Also I hope I get Buffalo Trace for Christmas.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (xcxpd)

Wife actually found some down here and gave me a bottle for my birthday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

Congrats Sponge.
Not only First, but also given good bourbon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (xcxpd)

169 As the saying goes, sorrow shared is halved and joy shared is doubled.

*Fistbump

Posted by: Myrtle Corbin at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (w9Wax)

170 >>No. Check the date.

The date is irrelevant. "Our president" could mean any of the them, especially Clinton.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 23, 2025 12:43 PM (Y1sOo)

171 Most current macro models are bullshit. Inflation is mainly a monetary issue where too much money from deficits are chasing too few goods. The key is productivity increases among the native population can produce more goods at the same or lower price and channelling money into investment instead of purchase of goods, also means future productivity increases where future workers produce more goods at the same or lower prices.

Virtuous cycle.

Instead Social Welfare Economics focuses on consumer demand and government spending which almost always shrivels investment and thus productivity. Not virtuous cycle.

Biden era led to massive deficit spending pushing exploding the G portion of GDP while productivity decreased in mfg and was stagnant in services. Led to massive inflation.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)

whig, I tend to agree with you here. I brought up in #76 whether Greenspan actually needed to raise rates in the 90s, when the internet boom then was working on doing what you write about here. Reading this, would you agree with that take?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:43 PM (0CU3H)

172 Solid, like Joe Biden's brain.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 23, 2025 12:43 PM (abIsI)

173 Flaming Economic Skull AND banana Dream made a Boom-Boom. What a great day!

Posted by: The Sky's The Limit! at December 23, 2025 12:43 PM (oftw2)

174 Tempted to find an old account I follow on Twitter who wrote that the economy was ruined after the Trump tariffs. But, in the spirit of the season, I won't .

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 12:44 PM (mlg/3)

175 @TJM, I'm with you on "the numbers are going to be screwy for a while." As I've posted before, if you kick 2% of the population out every year, that's 2% less demand for just about everything. Even though that's better for citizens in every possible way, the aggregate economic statistics are going to show a 2% reduction.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 23, 2025 12:44 PM (eStot)

176 The consumer-facing chatbots and deepfakes part hasn't found a business model that works yet, but the B2B end is doing pretty well. I don't think there's gonna be a crash like the dotcom one in the early 2000s, more like a correction.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)
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But the B2B side of things also usually doesn't require a hyperscaler to make it work. Even during the first tech bubble, revenues and investments were nowhere near as out of whack as they are for the hyperscalers, and that's the primary driver of the mind-boggling finances.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:44 PM (avHHk)

177 Were Myrtle's two uteri synched?

Posted by: I Have A Haddock at December 23, 2025 12:45 PM (oftw2)

178 Waiting on It'sGoTimeDonald to tell us how terrible this is.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (3ek7K)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

179 Tariffs need to be increased based on how many of your people are in our country.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:45 PM (5DEFi)

180 If Jim Beam is shutting down production for a year, it's because they produced too much to begin with. The industry as a whole got way too far out over their skis. Craft beer industry is in the same boat. Flooding the market only works for a little while. My favorite Brewery, Rogue, recently shuttered. They made basically one beer for years. Then they starting making all kinds of specialty crafty shit, and boom. No more Dead Guy ale.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (MZ+PY)

181 A million layoffs this year and no official recession. First time in history for this. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Posted by: Somedumguy at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (1ufgs)

182 Not being an economist, I don't know what this means, but I have heard that there is no such thing as macroeconomics.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (GPa4z)

183 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:39 PM (avHHk)

It's fair - and the argument about the guys longest runs isn't totally invalid - it's just shaping. Take the win and move on. Lord knows they are looking for any chink they can find.

I put aside intellectual honesty the day I realized 80% of my own side and 100% of the other side wants me dead. Which was like 2005.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (oHAzj)

184 Dumb news: Charlottesville VA is eliminating their city surveillance cameras because they're catching too many illegals.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (QZThv)

185 Oh right so the lib argument against the good economic numbers is even more predictable:

"Epstein"

We're also going to try "Trump fired all the honest economists so he's rigging the numbers"

Posted by: MSM at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (D0HYP)

186 This light-eyed brunette hopes for continued good news:
http://tiny.cc/4usw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (avHHk)

187
Congrats Sponge.
Not only First, but also given good bourbon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:42 PM (xcxpd)

Thanks!

It's part reason for my slight hangover today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)

188 Distortions due to the government shutdown.
Posted by: Oglebay

Not so sure about that one other than tempering inflation as G (govt) spending declined in real terms.

I (investment figures) since Trump took office soared in Q1, Q2 and Q3 has some declines from the peak in Q1 but every quarter has had higher investment than during Biden junta years.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

189 On an earlier thread I argued that we'll know the Bidens are broke when they start turning on each other. I just watched the Hunter vid where he pissed on some of his father's policies, including immigration. He says he's $15m in debt. Guess the circular firing squad has begun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (2vrAX)

190 181 A million layoffs this year and no official recession. First time in history for this. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Posted by: Somedumguy at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (1ufgs)

======

Hey, Biden had a million of his jobs in his final year just pulled away completely because they were fake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

191 >>>4%: Very high growth. Starting to get into actual "BOOM" territory, if sustained, if it's not just a one-quarter wonder. Think: Me riding down the street on my Vespa, carrying my J. Crew messenger bag, looking at the world with optimism and cheer and thinking of all the vertical surfaces I can stick shelves on.

Very expert description.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (dK+Kv)

192 I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you have an api key
Posted by: Melanie
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'I rode my bicycle past your Windows last night...'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (XeU6L)

193 That was unsustainable. So the inevitable happened. The party is over and the industry is stuck with a glut of inventory.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)
Buy bourbon just like you buy ammo.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (LHPAg)

194 Macroeconomics and cheese.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (5DEFi)

195 Guys wanted for threesomes. No waiting.

Posted by: The chick with two minges at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (Y1sOo)

196 Everyone's getting rich in this raging economy. So, on today's episode of The Blade's Garage of Awesome, we ask: Can a $500,000 car be worth the money?

Last month I was lucky to drive the new Lamborghini Temerario at Sonoma Raceway. The track itself is great, with a lot of elevation change and blind corners, in a beautiful setting. Maybe JackStraw with his yacht and garrett with his $40k bike were also there. Maybe.

The "Teme" is Lambo's successor to the highly successful Huracan. Instead of the Huracan's V10, however, the Teme has a flat-plane twin-turbo V8 that revs to over 10,000 rpm. The motor officially makes 789 hp, although some Lambo insiders say the real output is near 840.

The car also has 3 axial-flux EV motors that not only provide instant power and sophisticated torque-vectoring, but also bump official total power to 907 hp.

So what's the car like to drive? Incredible. The car is so insanely fast it's almost too fast. Great handling, fantastic brakes, and a new luxurious interior with more space than the Huracan. My only complaint was the exhaust was too quiet.

So is the car worth north of a half-mil? I'd say yes.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

197 Buy bourbon just like you buy ammo.
Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (LHPAg)
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How long does an intact, sealed bottle of bourbon last?

Serious question. I have no idea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:48 PM (avHHk)

198
I'm old and don't need anyone shitting down my legs unless they are shitting tons of money, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 12:48 PM (3ek7K)

199 Not kidding I think the lib argument today is

But but EGGS!!!

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:48 PM (oHAzj)

200 189 On an earlier thread I argued that we'll know the Bidens are broke when they start turning on each other. I just watched the Hunter vid where he pissed on some of his father's policies, including immigration. He says he's $15m in debt. Guess the circular firing squad has begun
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (2vrAX)

Hunter should reach out to Banana Dream. I believe he has a line on where Hunter can secure plenty more painting materials from.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (0CU3H)

201 182 Not being an economist, I don't know what this means, but I have heard that there is no such thing as macroeconomics.
Posted by: Oglebay

Too many variables and underspecified models (not identifying the proper variables and their size effect ) is the problem in macroeconomics.

So we often get aggregates that obscure more than illuminate.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)

202 184 Dumb news: Charlottesville VA is eliminating their city surveillance cameras because they're catching too many illegals.
Posted by: Ian S.

School's closed for another month, students all gone. Great time for a dragnet to kick out all the illegals.

Posted by: Friday and Gannon at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (oftw2)

203
So what's the car like to drive? Incredible. The car is so insanely fast it's almost too fast. Great handling, fantastic brakes, and a new luxurious interior with more space than the Huracan. My only complaint was the exhaust was too quiet.

So is the car worth north of a half-mil? I'd say yes.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

204 So is the car worth north of a half-mil? I'd say yes.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Cool!

*No* car is worth a half a million dollars to me. It could give me a hummer as I took a hairpin at 200 and it wouldn't be worth it to me.

It's almost like differences of opinion allows for different markets to exist! Astounding!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (avHHk)

205 199 Not kidding I think the lib argument today is

But but EGGS!!!

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:48 PM (oHAzj)

======

Average national price of eggs right now is about $1 a dozen.

They've forgotten eggs were a rallying cry a few months ago.

Now, it's beef.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

206 Even during the first tech bubble, revenues and investments were nowhere near as out of whack as they are for the hyperscalers, and that's the primary driver of the mind-boggling finances.

I go back and forth on hyperscalers. Literally the entire Internet except the HQ is on some combination of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, so it seems like a solid business. But people are waking up to the fact that you can do on-prem servers for comparable money and not go down every time one of Amazon's crack staff of dot-Indians sneezes.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (QZThv)

207 But but EGGS!!!
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:48 PM (oHAzj)

https://youtu.be/L2W8A942JWQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

208 Outstanding growth. This level is rarely seen and means the economy is running on all 12 cylinders.

The technical term for this among economists is a “Pierce-Arrow 1236 economy”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 12:50 PM (EXyHK)

209
What of Milk?

Is a gallon of biden Milk still $5?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (TWzjC)

210 I go back and forth on hyperscalers. Literally the entire Internet except the HQ is on some combination of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, so it seems like a solid business. But people are waking up to the fact that you can do on-prem servers for comparable money and not go down every time one of Amazon's crack staff of dot-Indians sneezes.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (QZThv)
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The compute/network hyperscalers have found profit, and sometimes it's excellent. Very expensive business and so it's cyclical.

On the AI side of things, the power demands and silicon costs are so huge, and the hyperscalers themselves are so huge, that it beggars belief and nobody has demonstrated where the revenues are going to come from. It's bonkers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (avHHk)

211 Economy is too hot.

Can't reduce rates.

Powell

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (FxH7T)

212 How long does an intact, sealed bottle of bourbon last?

Serious question. I have no idea.

Forever*

* assuming you store it reasonably

Posted by: Chuck C at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (D0HYP)

213 The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

======

There are definitely worse ways to go!

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (GPa4z)

214 Forever*

* assuming you store it reasonably
Posted by: Chuck C at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (D0HYP)
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That's very good news!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (avHHk)

215 If Jim Beam is shutting down production for a year, it's because they produced too much to begin with. The industry as a whole got way too far out over their skis. Craft beer industry is in the same boat. Flooding the market only works for a little while. My favorite Brewery, Rogue, recently shuttered. They made basically one beer for years. Then they starting making all kinds of specialty crafty shit, and boom. No more Dead Guy ale.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (MZ+PY)
________

I really liked St. Rogue Red Ale

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

216 There's no way Hunter is $15m in debt.

SOMEONE would've killed him by now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

217
Whey Protein powder, made from Milk, is still high.

If Milk goes down, then all the muscle-heads like me will be happy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (TWzjC)

218 How long does an intact, sealed bottle of bourbon last?

Serious question. I have no idea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:48 PM (avHHk)

It's water, ethanol, some sugars, some colorings either natural or otherwise. It'll outlast you, but it might not taste as good as the day it was bottled. But I don't know when that practical "best by" date is. It can't ever get any worse than Old Grandad or Thai "Whiskey."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (dK+Kv)

219 I saw a news item that Sweden found that 70% of their "refugees" took vacations back to their home country.

Most of the comment were along the lines of "then they aren't refugees are they?!?" but there was a stubborn group of leftists that argued it was racist to deny them vacations and of course they'd want to visit friends and family!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

220 A bottle of bourbon should outlast you.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (5DEFi)

221 The argument is that more people are asking for loans and then fractional reserve banking lets banks print more money
==
The banks dont print more money per se. The money they loan out winds up in other banks as deposits, which they loan out fractionally. And so on and so on. 1000 loan with 10% held is 900. That 900 makes its way into the next bank(s). 810. That is 1710 dollars loaned on a 1000. And you iterate it down. Thats the macro view of the whole process. Not just one bank. Low rates means more loans, especially if the rates are lower than returns in economy/ stock market. More loans means more multipliers. It used to be a stronger effect before they monetized the debt. Now with the printing presses running at light speed it is relatively less important.

Posted by: Some economists who are idiots would say at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (shH1w)

222 This light-eyed brunette hopes for continued good news:
http://tiny.cc/4usw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:46 PM (avHHk)

Thanks!!!

Posted by: MAC V SOG at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (P4Pk9)

223 How long does an intact, sealed bottle of bourbon last?
---------

About five minutes these days

Posted by: Kamala at December 23, 2025 12:53 PM (oHAzj)

224 How long does an intact, sealed bottle of bourbon last?

Serious question. I have no idea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Major issue is oxidation over time so you store it like wine. But you don't get additional benefits taste wise from aging whiskey in a glass bottle. Aging in situ in a wooden barrel yes, in a bottle, no.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:53 PM (WDjG6)

225
but but but eggstein!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:54 PM (TWzjC)

226 220 A bottle of bourbon should outlast you.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (5DEFi)

A bottle of good bourbon, shouldn't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 12:54 PM (06Hmj)

227 So what's the car like to drive? Incredible. The car is so insanely fast it's almost too fast. Great handling, fantastic brakes, and a new luxurious interior with more space than the Huracan. My only complaint was the exhaust was too quiet.

So is the car worth north of a half-mil? I'd say yes.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

Yea, supposedly a 296 GTS. The car is a piece of shit, but it's very fast (over 800 hp). I'll bet drugs, booze, or insane risk-taking played a part in the crash.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:54 PM (iFTx/)

228 That CNN gal was suffering, reporting on a Trump success
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (jvxGE)

Looked like a loosing fight against loosing a SBD,
Posted by: Eromero

I still gotta say, CNN gal is hawt.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (XvL8K)

229 Major issue is oxidation over time so you store it like wine. But you don't get additional benefits taste wise from aging whiskey in a glass bottle. Aging in situ in a wooden barrel yes, in a bottle, no.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:53 PM (WDjG6)
++++
Right, not looking for some magical improvement, just curious about shelf life. If "store it cool, dry and dark" translates to "more or less forever," then cool. I will stock up during the bourbon bust!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (avHHk)

230
Whoa!

Did I just coin another great term right here at the ol' HQ?!

The left's obsession with their eggstein gaslighting hoax.

Get it? Eggstein.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (TWzjC)

231 221 The banks dont print more money per se. The money they loan out winds up in other banks as deposits, which they loan out fractionally. And so on and so on. 1000 loan with 10% held is 900. That 900 makes its way into the next bank(s). 810. That is 1710 dollars loaned on a 1000. And you iterate it down. Thats the macro view of the whole process. Not just one bank. Low rates means more loans, especially if the rates are lower than returns in economy/ stock market. More loans means more multipliers. It used to be a stronger effect before they monetized the debt. Now with the printing presses running at light speed it is relatively less important.

Posted by: Some economists who are idiots would say at December 23, 2025 12:52 PM (shH1w)

======

Except, again, it's only the Fed that prints the money. Banks aren't allowed to just expand their balance sheets by a stroke of a keyboard. They borrow the M2 money from the Fed who prints the money.

Fractional reserve banking is a mirage of inflation hiding the fact that the fed just keeps expanding the M2 supply.

Inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon, dollars chasing goods, and the pace of loaning doesn't actually affect that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

232 Lord knows they are looking for any chink they can find."

Ah, er... sure. Ok.

Panda express is over there...

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (XuXeR)

233 I don't like g forces so these insane hp cars do little for me. It's possible I should have been born a chick.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:56 PM (oHAzj)

234 The left's obsession with their eggstein gaslighting hoax.

Get it? Eggstein.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (TWzjC)

Bro's not even waiting for the chicks to hatch....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 12:56 PM (06Hmj)

235 >>>If they’re always wrong, they’re not really experts, are they?

Posted by: Duke Lowell

>Paul Krugman has entered the chat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 12:56 PM (nljXp)

236 How long does an intact, sealed bottle of bourbon last?

Serious question. I have no idea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
-------

I have a 30 year old, sealed, packaged, bottle of Suntory Old Whisky. I have seen such auctioned at $500, not because it is a $500 whisky, but for collector value. If I ever make it to the Mome, we're going to crack it open.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 12:56 PM (XeU6L)

237 So is the car worth north of a half-mil? I'd say yes.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Cool!

*No* car is worth a half a million dollars to me. It could give me a hummer as I took a hairpin at 200 and it wouldn't be worth it to me.

It's almost like differences of opinion allows for different markets to exist! Astounding!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (avHHk)
______

Nah brah. You must like and value things the exact same way as everyone else does. No exceptions.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

238 Yea but, the price of Tampons is still way too high for my taste....

So Minnesotans will not be celebrating....

Posted by: Tim Walz at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (J9q9v)

239 Suppose, and I'm just spitballin' here, Trump's "600,000 students from China" thing is a slight of hand play to get a small portion of that money BACK in the US?
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Yes and no. Yes, it provides money to colleges. No, it causes higher pricing to attend college. Even so, colleges are shrinking fast.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (pLaQB)

240 Nah brah. You must like and value things the exact same way as everyone else does. No exceptions.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Sigh.

:: adds another name to the 'irreconcilable mortal enemies due to minor disagreement' list ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (avHHk)

241 Yea but, the price of Tampons is still way too high for my taste....

Posted by: Tim Walz at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (J9q9v)

Taste? You are doing it wrong.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (oHAzj)

242 239 Suppose, and I'm just spitballin' here, Trump's "600,000 students from China" thing is a slight of hand play to get a small portion of that money BACK in the US?
-------------------
Yes and no. Yes, it provides money to colleges. No, it causes higher pricing to attend college. Even so, colleges are shrinking fast.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (pLaQB)

=======

It's mostly just a continuation of existing policy.

300,000 students per year for two years. There's no expansion on that front.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

243 Heh.

BREAKING: GOP lawmaker unveils WALZ (Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions) Act after billions lost in Minnesota fraud scandal.

https://is.gd/0d4m53

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (Aug9c)

244 That would buy a lot of Toyotas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (5DEFi)

245 Notice the CNN GDP chart - GDP over 6% in first half of 2021 (end of Trump's first term, post Covid lockdown boom), then for the length of Sleepy Joe's term, it is sluggish growth at 2-2.5%.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (y171U)

246 Whoa!

Did I just coin another great term right here at the ol' HQ?!

The left's obsession with their eggstein gaslighting hoax.

Get it? Eggstein.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (TWzjC)

Omelet you finish, but . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (dK+Kv)

247 240 Sigh.

:: adds another name to the 'irreconcilable mortal enemies due to minor disagreement' list ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (avHHk)

=======

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

248
It's mostly just a continuation of existing policy.

300,000 students per year for two years. There's no expansion on that front.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

But, It'sGoTimeDonald told me its a bad thing and America last!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

249
The left's obsession with their eggstein gaslighting hoax.

Get it? Eggstein.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:55 PM (TWzjC)

Bro's not even waiting for the chicks to hatch....
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Nice.
That was Ace-level.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (TWzjC)

250 213 The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

======

There are definitely worse ways to go!
Posted by: Oglebay
========
Crash then fire. So mebbe not. Also killed his passenger. They did not really get a say in the matter.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

251 26 So honey covered bewbs is good.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (pLaQB)

Sweaty Sweeney Sweater puppies is never bad.

Posted by: Roy at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (BZF07)

252 just curious about shelf life. "

Cool, dry, unlit storage? Lifetime, I guess. Had a nice bourbon from our wedding stored away, opened on 25th anniversary. Both the bourbon and the anniversary were quite good....

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (XuXeR)

253 It does seem like all respect for money is gone. A guy can make $1,000 for power washing a driveway which is enough to buy the equipment and a couple bottles of pappy van winkles. Gold is up nearly 70% this year which is not really good news for the dollar.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (GPa4z)

254 248 But, It'sGoTimeDonald told me its a bad thing and America last!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

====

He has the memory of a goldfish, the logic skills of a rock, and the argumentative ability of a child.

I find him tiresome and ignore him most of the time now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

255 :: adds another name to the 'irreconcilable mortal enemies due to minor disagreement' list ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 12:57 PM (avHHk)

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (dK+Kv)

256
I have a 30 year old, sealed, packaged, bottle of Suntory Old Whisky.
-------
For the curious:
https://shorturl.at/0St5P

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

257 Diesel is under $3 some places here.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (sDNVV)

258 248
It's mostly just a continuation of existing policy.

300,000 students per year for two years. There's no expansion on that front.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
In a weird way, those students, many of whom have very influential parents in the CCP back home, are also de facto hostages to Chicoms behaving nicely regarding Taiwan dispute.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

259 Crash then fire. So mebbe not. Also killed his passenger. They did not really get a say in the matter.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

Well, then he did that WAY wrong.

Posted by: Vince Neil at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

260 On the AI side of things, the power demands and silicon costs are so huge, and the hyperscalers themselves are so huge, that it beggars belief and nobody has demonstrated where the revenues are going to come from. It's bonkers.

For the big guys repurposing those racks is not difficult, aside from the GPU writeoff. Even if there are no workloads using the GPUs the servers typically still have a decent Xeon or Epyc. I think the smaller players are definitely going to be a bloodbath though.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)

261 BREAKING: GOP lawmaker unveils WALZ (Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions) Act after billions lost in Minnesota fraud scandal.

Grandstanding. Let's make it ILLEGAL-illegal!

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (6LzyB)

262 I'm a salaried software engineer, and with the shit raises we get here at one of the biggest tech companies in the world, directly benefitting from the massive AI build-out, my real wages are actually lower than last year.

So yeah, I don't want to hear it.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at December 23, 2025 01:01 PM (ERYKL)

263 Lighten up, Francis.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (dK+Kv)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:01 PM (avHHk)

264 That would buy a lot of Toyotas."

*looks at Toyota 2000 GT. Nope. Ah well*

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 01:01 PM (XuXeR)

265 Crash then fire. So mebbe not. Also killed his passenger. They did not really get a say in the matter.

The passenger was lucky - died in the hospital. Driver was trapped in the car when it burned.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:01 PM (QZThv)

266 For the curious:
https://shorturl.at/0St5P
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

You bring that to the TxMoMe, I'd be GLAD, and honored, to help you drink it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

267 213 The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

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It was another stupid death.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 01:01 PM (aZm/F)

268 keep thread Prometheus free*

PROMETHIUS AND BOOBS

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:02 PM (Kt19C)

269 PROMETHIUS AND BOOBS
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:02 PM (Kt19C)

Hawt

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:02 PM (06Hmj)

270
This isn't news or scandalous, though the poster wants it to be:

https://tinyurl.com/45kyad45
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Age verification.
Sads.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Try this link:

https://t.ly/iENVk

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)

271 I find him tiresome and ignore him most of the time now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

*fistbump*

I made the decision last thread to ignore him for the rest of time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

272 The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

======

There are definitely worse ways to go!
Posted by: Oglebay
========
Crash then fire. So mebbe not. Also killed his passenger. They did not really get a say in the matter.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)
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Yea, the guy was alive in the car, but the extent of the wreck trapped him in the car. He burned to death. Definitely not a good way to go. There's video of the crash:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxnfb7c

I won't speak ill of the dead in this instance, but it looks like he was driving like an idiot.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

273 Ben Sasse announces he has stage IV prostate cancer.

The Trump curse strikes again.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 23, 2025 01:03 PM (abIsI)

274 Is that movie good or not?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (5DEFi)

275 Inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon, dollars chasing goods, and the pace of loaning doesn't actually affect that.
==
Well it is now.

Banks by fractional lending, in aggregate and by iteration, lend out more than they take in. According to a school of thought and a formula someone got a prize for....

Posted by: Some economists who are idiots would say at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (shH1w)

276 The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

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It was another stupid death.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 01:01 PM (aZm/F)

No respawns in the game of life.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (dK+Kv)

277 Way off topic, but if you have a chance to watch both seasons of Andor, do it. Best TV I've ever watched.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (aZm/F)

278 bottle of Suntory Old Whisky"

*contemplating how to get hands on said whiskey...*

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (XuXeR)

279 Gold is up nearly 70% this year which is not really good news for the dollar.
Posted by: Oglebay

In reverse, forex dollar declines from interest rate cuts spur exports from teh US and reduce imports. Gold usually goes up as a consequence as an inflation hedge. But the extent that gold and silver have boomed (gold up about 70 percent in one year and silver over 170 percent), I think is a speculative frenzy that is not supported by underlying fundamentals based on momentum trading.

But remember also that gold is an international market like silver and unrest in other countries often leads to demand for very portable wealth beyond easy govt confiscation in places like China and India.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (WDjG6)

280 Eggstein sounds eggsolutely eggcellent.

Posted by: Vincent Price in a Tim Pool wig at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (7Q0e+)

281 It was another stupid death.
Posted by: Seems Legit

For the passenger, I agree. Could not care less about the man-child driver who never grew up.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 23, 2025 01:05 PM (Y1sOo)

282 For the big guys repurposing those racks is not difficult, aside from the GPU writeoff. Even if there are no workloads using the GPUs the servers typically still have a decent Xeon or Epyc. I think the smaller players are definitely going to be a bloodbath though.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)
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The "GPU write-off" is the big part of it, and physical plant is not cheap at this scale, either.

Write off the value of GPUs that, on your books cost more than your current enterprise value but in the post-crash market are worth pennies on the dollar, and see how it goes in terms of remaining a going concern.

We're also starting to see vendor financing games again, like we did last time in the 90s. Those games took out several major players entirely. The asset had little residual value during the crash, and had to be marked down radically even before it because of generational value differences.

The AI bubble is dangerous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:05 PM (avHHk)

283 Google buying a majority share in a power plant scares the fuck out of me. Setting a precedent that ends up with tech oligarchs running large chunks of our power grid is another step toward the worst of all corporate run dystopias with no cyberware, smartguns, or ready access to drugs or hot chicks

Posted by: Duke-Meta Energy? No thanks. at December 23, 2025 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

284 Is that movie good or not?"

Bewbs? Sure. Always a hit.

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 01:06 PM (XuXeR)

285 275 Inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon, dollars chasing goods, and the pace of loaning doesn't actually affect that.
==
Well it is now.

Banks by fractional lending, in aggregate and by iteration, lend out more than they take in. According to a school of thought and a formula someone got a prize for....

Posted by: Some economists who are idiots would say at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (shH1w)

=======

Except that's driven by M2 money supply, which the Fed controls.

The banks don't just say, "Hey, we got a new deposit! We get to lend out more now!"

They say, "Hey! We got more deposits, Fed, can we borrow more money from you?"

And then the Fed prints them more money. That has nothing to do with lending and rates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

286 Google buying a majority share in a power plant scares the fuck out of me. Setting a precedent that ends up with tech oligarchs running large chunks of our power grid is another step toward the worst of all corporate run dystopias with no cyberware, smartguns, or ready access to drugs or hot chicks
Posted by: Duke-Meta Energy
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This

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 01:06 PM (XeU6L)

287 I won't speak ill of the dead in this instance, but it looks like he was driving like an idiot.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

My nephew in law and a good friend from HS died similarly in separate crashes doing similarly stupid stunts. WRXs are not an invincibility suit. Trees are stronger than your puny body.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:07 PM (dK+Kv)

288 No respawns in the game of life."

VW (I think) commercial in the 90s.

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 01:07 PM (XuXeR)

289 283 Google buying a majority share in a power plant scares the fuck out of me. Setting a precedent that ends up with tech oligarchs running large chunks of our power grid is another step toward the worst of all corporate run dystopias with no cyberware, smartguns, or ready access to drugs or hot chicks
Posted by: Duke-Meta Energy? No thanks. at December 23, 2025 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

The other part that makes me uncomfortable is the idea of the same nutsacks who piss about with VR goggles and crappy social media sites that break about once a month being in charge of large scale power generation hooked directly into the national grid.

Fartbook goes down, oh well lol.

Greater Regional Fartbook Power and Light goes down... ruh roh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:07 PM (06Hmj)

290 I believe I have a new parlay system.
1. Pick three or four overmatch games; i.e. Pats v Jets
2. Build a three or four leg parley out of them
3. Benefit on the combo risk it returns
3. Profit and have Hawt Monkey Love.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:07 PM (pLaQB)

291 Nah brah. You must like and value things the exact same way as everyone else does. No exceptions.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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You have to be an economic modeller then. Everyone must want a widget whether they actually do or not.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:08 PM (WDjG6)

292 Great news in my leftist home city. I've told you my city is the first upstate city with rent control. A recent review said the rent control wasn't necessary pursuant to rules and regulations. The common council voted to ignore the findings. The mayor a prog vetoed the bill. Now the even more prog council is threatening an override and the activists are going nuts. Fun, fun, fun. I'm hoping for casualties

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:08 PM (2vrAX)

293 California leaving
On such a winter's day!

https://tinyurl.com/mx425m82

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:08 PM (KgVf3)

294 The asset had little residual value during the crash, and had to be marked down radically even before it because of generational value differences.

The AI bubble is dangerous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:05 PM (avHHk)

Great values to be had after the bubble bursts. Have cash ready.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:08 PM (dK+Kv)

295 Nothing will ever beat the owner of Segway dying on his Segway. At least he got killed by the thing that made him rich.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:09 PM (BI5O2)

296 Try this link:

https://t.ly/iENVk
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)

That worked.

Not sure why that would need age verification......but a nothingburger nonetheless.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

297 For the big guys repurposing those racks is not difficult…

I really thought this was part of the Sweeney conversation at first.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 01:10 PM (EXyHK)

298 I won't speak ill of the dead in this instance, but it looks like he was driving like an idiot.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:03 PM (iFTx/)
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Obligatory PSA:

https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:10 PM (KgVf3)

299 Nothing will ever beat the owner of Segway dying on his Segway. At least he got killed by the thing that made him rich.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:09 PM (BI5O2)
++++
Nothing like it. The only way to go!

Posted by: Zombie Stockton Rush at December 23, 2025 01:10 PM (avHHk)

300 For the big guys repurposing those racks is not difficult, aside from the GPU writeoff. Even if there are no workloads using the GPUs the servers typically still have a decent Xeon or Epyc. I think the smaller players are definitely going to be a bloodbath though.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)
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You know whose rack does not need repurposing?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:10 PM (npFr7)

301 You know whose rack does not need repurposing?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:10 PM (npFr7)

Saginaw?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:11 PM (06Hmj)

302 Nothing will ever beat the owner of Segway dying on his Segway. At least he got killed by the thing that made him rich.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:09 PM (BI5O2)

Not the inventor; the buyer of his company.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:12 PM (npFr7)

303 Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:07 PM (pLaQB)

I say this with no intended malice - house is gonna take you for a ride but those can be fun sometimes

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:12 PM (oHAzj)

304 Whoa, the Segway guy didn't get rich from Segways. He invented Hesco barriers. Then he just bought Segway as an investment, and one of their products killed a year later. Lame!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:12 PM (BI5O2)

305 Not sure why that would need age verification......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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You avoid this if you create an X account and swear that you're 29.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:12 PM (KgVf3)

306 Which a large chunk of going to China.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 12:32 PM (pLaQB)

Yeah, the PRC holds about, what, $1-2 trillion?
No griping about Japan or the EU though.

Oh, wait. The national debt is only bad when the PRC has Treasuries. Never mind.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 01:12 PM (Wv0GD)

307 The creator of Call of Duty killed himself by wrecking his Ferrari.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

Yea, supposedly a 296 GTS. The car is a piece of shit, but it's very fast (over 800 hp). I'll bet drugs, booze, or insane risk-taking played a part in the crash.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

TRUST me. Angeles Crest is to be taken seriously. Off the edge and you won't be found til the spring.

Twisties 7k feet. No rain and warm. So no black ice.

Fast cars and crotch rockets on Sat & sun

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 01:12 PM (FxH7T)

308 296 Try this link:

https://t.ly/iENVk
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)

That worked.

Not sure why that would need age verification......but a nothingburger nonetheless.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Has anyone even tried to, I don't know, authenticate this in any way? Handwriting analysis, dating the ink or stationery, anything at all? Not that it means anything anyway but has even the most basic of due diligence been performed?

Posted by: I'm guessing that answer is "no" at December 23, 2025 01:12 PM (TbWk/)

309 >> But the extent that gold and silver have boomed (gold up about 70 percent in one year and silver over 170 percent), I think is a speculative frenzy that is not supported by underlying fundamentals based on momentum trading.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:04 PM (WDjG6)

======

Yes, it is a little unnerving to buy an ounce of gold today for $4,500 when a one year put at X=$4,500 costs north of $1,000.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 01:13 PM (GPa4z)

310 "NooOOoOOOO!!!!1! The economy sucks! Stop looking at that information! Beef is expensive!"
--every leftist

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:13 PM (3Amc7)

311 BUT EPSTEIN!!!!

AFFORDABILITY!!!

INSURANCE PREMIUMS!!!

ORANGE. MAN. BAAAADDDDDD!!!!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (xvV+O)

312
Beefstein!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (TWzjC)

313 81 I am not shouting "DOOM" from the rooftops by any means
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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But; What did Kramer say?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (Mis34)

314 I was going to be pedantic about how you annualized, but the difference for very low interest rates is tiny, 0.03% in this case, so I won't, this time.

But that's why your shelves fall down.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (am+xr)

315 And then the Fed prints them more money. That has nothing to do with lending and rates.
==
I dont disagree with you on the money supply at all. Its the major issue for inflation. Clearly.

In the fractional reserve iteration the banks are not using fed money to make the loan iteration. They are loaning deposits. The 1000 is not destoyed. Well in a sense 10 percent each loan is taken out of the economy. So there is a notional multiplier. Which is sort of meaningless now, given we are currently running the presses at warp factor twelve.

Posted by: Some economists who are idiots would say at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (shH1w)

316 123
Waiting on It'sGoTimeDonald to tell us how terrible this is.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 12:35 PM (3ek7K)

He’s waiting for marching orders from Tucker Carlson and his crush, Nick Fuentes.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (Wv0GD)

317 No respawns in the game of life."

VW (I think) commercial in the 90s.
Posted by: man
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Guessing the Hindus would disagree.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (XvL8K)

318 310 "NooOOoOOOO!!!!1! The economy sucks! Stop looking at that information! Beef is expensive!"
--every leftist
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:13 PM (3Amc7)

That's like one of them complaining that diapers are expensive.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (06Hmj)

319 303 Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:07 PM (pLaQB)

I say this with no intended malice - house is gonna take you for a ride but those can be fun sometimes
----------------
I concur, but you can alter the spreads while increasing the payout. The biggest risk is whether the winning team wishes to run up the score. Most are already in the playoffs and may prize health over points.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (pLaQB)

320
Did anyone buy a Roast today?
Or check the prices at your local supermarket?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (TWzjC)

321 Nothing will ever beat the owner of Segway dying on his Segway. At least he got killed by the thing that made him rich.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:09 PM (BI5O2)

*raises index finger to object*

Posted by: Jim Fixx, Jogging Influencer at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (wVcYX)

322 Ben Sasse announces he has stage IV prostate cancer.

The Trump curse strikes again.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 23, 2025 01:03 PM (abIsI)

It's worse.

"Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die."

That's very fast acting with very little positive prognosis, in my experience.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

323 Think "Sydney Sweeney wearing a low-cut top

So it's either boom or bust?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (w9Wax)

324 What's great is for banks to buy treasury bonds that then count as reserves.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (GPa4z)

325 It's worse.

"Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die."

That's very fast acting with very little positive prognosis, in my experience.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

He sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

326 Did anyone buy a Roast today?
Or check the prices at your local supermarket?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (TWzjC)

I pulled two out of the freezer from the side of beef we bought. I can't wait.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (dK+Kv)

327 You can continue to buy DJI and other Chinese drone products, but those brands can’t import newer models or replacement parts.

US Foreign Drone Ban Is Here: DJI Hit Hardest by New FCC Rules

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (WQ6sk)

328
Eggstein file prices went up because Trump!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (TWzjC)

329 That's like one of them complaining that diapers are expensive.

You know what's cheap? Diaper pins and cloth diapers. Messy and annoying, but cheap as dirt.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (3Amc7)

330 I bought 3.3 lbs of ribeye for $9 a pound. Kroger Krazy has 80 20 beef at $4.00 /pound next week.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (5DEFi)

331 Now did the working population actually shrink due to deportations? Cuz that would put us into WooHoo economic boom territory.

And I don't know how fed spending is counted, and there may have been no additional shrinking of the fed spending since the DOGE work that ended in what June?

But "affordability crisis" since that is the only way the FNM can attack DJT.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (hhkIi)

332 Did anyone buy a Roast today?
Or check the prices at your local supermarket?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (TWzjC)

Just got back from Kroger. Parking lot is pretty full, checkout lines are humming, and the aisles are full of zombies, freaks, and mutants. Situation normal.

They are doing brisk business.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (wVcYX)

333 315 In the fractional reserve iteration the banks are not using fed money to make the loan iteration. They are loaning deposits. The 1000 is not destoyed. Well in a sense 10 percent each loan is taken out of the economy. So there is a notional multiplier. Which is sort of meaningless now, given we are currently running the presses at warp factor twelve.

Posted by: Some economists who are idiots would say at December 23, 2025 01:14 PM (shH1w)

====

Lending out cash in hand, deposits, doesn't affect the money supply at all, of course.

The only way fractional reserve banking is a boogeyman of inflation is because the Fed prints cash to cover it. The base issue is the Fed printing money. Lower interest rates encouraging more borrowing doesn't actually increase the ability of banks to do fractional reserve banking because that is derived from deposit amounts. And no one in any material number borrows money from one bank at 5% and then deposits it into another at 1%.

So, no, interest rates on government debt does not drive inflation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

334 By the way, social media is absolutely flooded with fake AI pics and stories about Trump with little girls and shocking revelations about the Epstein files including him. Its like Pallywood all over again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (3Amc7)

335 He sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm not going to preemptively dance on his grave like I might for Rob Reindeer. But the guy's an asshat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (dK+Kv)

336 "Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die."

That's very fast acting with very little positive prognosis, in my experience.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

He sounds vaccinated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cance
===
Well played. *golf clap*

Posted by: Harsh but probably fair at December 23, 2025 01:18 PM (shH1w)

337 He sounds vaccinated.

Aggressive sudden pancreatic cancer predates mRNA by over a decade. It seems more tied to Big Pharma getting a free pass on anything they claim is a vaccine starting in the late 80s.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:18 PM (84SEz)

338 Yes, it is a little unnerving to buy an ounce of gold today for $4,500 when a one year put at X=$4,500 costs north of $1,000.
Posted by: Oglebay

I think also some of impetus into gold and silver purchases come from the relative stagnation of crypto for the last several months.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:18 PM (WDjG6)

339
poor sassy sasse, he was an ass, but that's a lousy way to go

*There was a very brief time around 2015 when Ace wanted Sassy to run for president.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (TWzjC)

340 Now did the working population actually shrink due to deportations? Cuz that would put us into WooHoo economic boom territory.

And I don't know how fed spending is counted, and there may have been no additional shrinking of the fed spending since the DOGE work that ended in what June?

But "affordability crisis" since that is the only way the FNM can attack DJT.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (hhkIi)

We were in the pool!

Posted by: Working Population and Fed Spending at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (wVcYX)

341 Sasse wasn't my cup of tea as a senator, but he did good things in Florida with the college bureaucracy.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (2vrAX)

342 Now did the working population actually shrink due to deportations?

In some sectors yeah. But its being offset by lower traffic and fewer low end crimes. By the way Chris Hanson said... (beware, autoplay video)

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6367601796112

Basically: every time I set up a sting to catch a pedo... its an illegal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (3Amc7)

343 poor sassy sasse, he was an ass, but that's a lousy way to go

*There was a very brief time around 2015 when Ace wanted Sassy to run for president.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (TWzjC)

But the preference cascade never materialized, fortunately.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (dK+Kv)

344 US Foreign Drone Ban Is Here: DJI Hit Hardest by New FCC Rules

Kinda sucks, but it's also not ideal to have millions of drones flying around that may have a CCP backdoor.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (84SEz)

345 You know what's cheap? Diaper pins and cloth diapers. Messy and annoying, but cheap as dirt.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:16 PM (3Amc7)

Keep the little bastards in wire-bottom pens over a bucket, and hose 'em off twice a day, whether they need it or not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:20 PM (npFr7)

346
"Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die."

That's very fast acting with very little positive prognosis, in my experience.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

I read this and thought it was about Flounder breaking the news to us. What a Christmas nut punch...

Glad it's not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:20 PM (TWzjC)

347 Fake news.

Reddit says it’s all lies and we’re really worse than 1931 right now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:20 PM (UJWr0)

348 I read this and thought it was about Flounder breaking the news to us. What a Christmas nut punch...

Glad it's not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:20 PM (TWzjC)

Sorry for the potential misunderstanding, and thanks for the sentiment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (dK+Kv)

349 Remember when Biden had super duper deadly stage 9 cancer? Is it like his stutter? He seems perfectly fine, for Biden.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (3Amc7)

350 Keep the little bastards in wire-bottom pens over a bucket, and hose 'em off twice a day, whether they need it or not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:20 PM (npFr7)
-

/tries to turn the clock back

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (KgVf3)

351 Pedophilia is no yolk!!!

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (oHAzj)

352 I bet ya a certain someone is already scripting her next podcast about how the smol hats gave Sasse grundle cancer for not making out with her in high school.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (06Hmj)

353 the CNN newshag had a look on her face like there was a bad smell in the room.

Posted by: vivi at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (NddcJ)

354
Glad it's not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:20 PM (TWzjC)

He remembered Ace threatened us and told us to stop dying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

355
See? Told ya Beefstein prices went down.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (TWzjC)

356 Aggressive sudden pancreatic cancer predates mRNA by over a decade. It seems more tied to Big Pharma getting a free pass on anything they claim is a vaccine starting in the late 80s.

Which brings us exactly back to Sponge's comment: he sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 01:22 PM (6LzyB)

357 One convicted sexual predator writes a note to another convicted sexual predator from prison and I'm supposed to give a flying f*ck about it, why again?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

358 He remembered Ace threatened us and told us to stop dying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Ace is not the boss of me, but yeah, I hang on like a bad aftertaste.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)

359 >>> *There was a very brief time around 2015 when Ace wanted Sassy to run for president.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:19 PM (TWzjC)

Ace tries to give republican politicians love at first before he slaps them around to correct them.

You see, Ace's love is very different from that of a square.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (3uBP9)

360 the CNN newshag had a look on her face like there was a bad smell in the room.
Posted by: vivi at December 23, 2025 01:21 PM (NddcJ)

She had just finished going ATM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)

361 But; What did Kramer say?
Posted by: Braenyard

It's a writeoff, Jerry. They just write it off.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)

362
Sasse was a bad Republican Senator, but still 100X better than "tea party favorite" fraud jeff flake.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (TWzjC)

363 Which brings us exactly back to Sponge's comment: he sounds vaccinated.

100%. But that joke's normally about the coof so I had to go for it.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (84SEz)

364 Reddit says it’s all lies and we’re really worse than 1931 right now.

How would they know? Are there a lot of 100-year-olds posting on Reddit?

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (YoUJR)

365 So, no, interest rates on government debt does not drive inflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Not directly. High interest rates on government debt tends to crowd out private investment (because a supposed risk free return on govt bonds means that private investment rates have to add a 1.5-2 percent risk premium to yield calculations). That reduced private investment in turn which does lead to productivity stagnation and thus inflation over the long run ceterus paribus.

That is one of the problems with macro econ, it simply has issues like lag problems, unspecified 2nd and 3rd order effects, inadequate modeling of global environment, inadequate modeling of investor and consumer psychology, etc.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (WDjG6)

366 Look I am a simple artist and writer, not a smart military type despite being on here. Why is Trump talking about building new battleships??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (3Amc7)

367 I think the "thats like leftists complaining that diapers are expensive" was a reference to lefties having few if any kids anyway". But they probably do actually eat beef, while thinking the MAGA proles can get by with rice and beans and the occasional serving of chicken.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (hhkIi)

368 100%. But that joke's normally about the coof so I had to go for it.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (84SEz)

I'll allow it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

369 He sounds vaccinated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Virtue's bonus.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (Mis34)

370 332 Just got back from Kroger. Parking lot is pretty full, checkout lines are humming, and the aisles are full of zombies, freaks, and mutants. Situation normal.

They are doing brisk business.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (wVcYX)

Good to hear!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (y171U)

371 the CNN newshag had a look on her face like there was a bad smell in the room.

Toobin had used her chair last.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (84SEz)

372 You see, Ace's love is very different from that of a square.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:23 PM (3uBP9)
++++
Coming soon: "Upgrayde" of Spades

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (avHHk)

373 Flounder if you drop dead I want you to know in advance I'm probably gonna make some highly inappropriate jokes about it.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (oHAzj)

374 362
Sasse was a bad Republican Senator, but still 100X better than "tea party favorite" fraud jeff flake.
Posted by: Soothsayer
========
Flake and his family used illegals on their farming interests for starters.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)

375 "Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die."

Oh yeah. I say with factually and without malice, he's completely fucked. It's really nasty. The only good news is that he's not going to have to linger with cancer for very long.

Posted by: Really awful stuff at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (TbWk/)

376 >>> Look I am a simple artist and writer, not a smart military type despite being on here. Why is Trump talking about building new battleships??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (3Amc7)

Boobs
Battleships
Beer

Posted by: banana Dream - Winning Platform at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (3uBP9)

377 But they probably do actually eat beef, while thinking the MAGA proles can get by with rice and beans and the occasional serving of chicken.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (hhkIi)

Beef causes global warming via cow farts, it’s become very unfashionable for leftists to eat it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (UJWr0)

378 EweToob feed has this:

The Economy Grew But More People Are Living In Storage Sheds.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 01:26 PM (wVcYX)

379 And no one in any material number borrows money from one bank at 5% and then deposits it into another at 1%.
==
Everyone, except drug lords, puts their money in the bank. They buy lambos, and the lambo dealer puts that money in the bank. Which the bank is free to lend out. If the rates are low they will have more takers than not. It still has to make sense for the bank to loan to the debtor. They might get a better return elsewhere, which has same effect.

It isnt just one person or one bank. In a closed system, without the printing presses, the macro guys show a multipler effect from fractional reserve banking. Which now is sort of irrelevant because they have monetized the debt.

Posted by: Harsh but probably fair at December 23, 2025 01:26 PM (shH1w)

380 Flounder if you drop dead I want you to know in advance I'm probably gonna make some highly inappropriate jokes about it.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (oHAzj)

For it is the way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

381 Flake and his family used illegals on their farming interests for starters.

In all fairness the man was doomed at birth with the name "Flake."

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:26 PM (YoUJR)

382 There must be a way we can vax the poor huddled masses?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (5DEFi)

383 Wow, the Hesco guy was awesome. He dropped of HS to be a coal miner, and when got laid off in the 80s, he started a sandblasting business with his severance package, and used it to fund his Hesco invention.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (BI5O2)

384 "Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and I'm gonna hang around for a few more years."

Posted by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (w9Wax)

385 Aggressive sudden pancreatic cancer predates mRNA by over a decade. It seems more tied to Big Pharma getting a free pass on anything they claim is a vaccine starting in the late 80s.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:18 PM (84SEz)

Everyone hates Big Pharma until they need Big Pharma.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (Wv0GD)

386
nood pervert

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (TWzjC)

387 Flake and his family used illegals on their farming interests for starters.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)

Flake lived up to his name.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

388 . Why is Trump talking about building new battleships??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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They are the opposite of littoral ships.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Mis34)

389 Like - at least flounder died doing what he loved - screaming in a flaming car wreck.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (oHAzj)

390 Look I am a simple artist and writer, not a smart military type despite being on here. Why is Trump talking about building new battleships??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (3Amc7)

Options discussed here:

- Jump start American manufacturing - national security implications.
- Jump start American steel demand - national security implications.
- Reaganesque ploy to get China/Russia to spend or misallocate scarce resources.
- Actual utility in all the small war operations against below peer nations such as Venezuela, Cuba ,etc.
- Modernizing capabilities in view of all that is known about drone warfare including UUVs.
- Tweaking the left.
- Trump.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (dK+Kv)

391 The Economy Grew But More People Are Living In Storage Sheds.

Sounds like Bathhouse Barry.

Well, except for the part about the economy growing.

Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (YoUJR)

392 374 362
Sasse was a bad Republican Senator, but still 100X better than "tea party favorite" fraud jeff flake.
Posted by: Soothsayer
========
Flake and his family used illegals on their farming interests for starters.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)

Jeff Fake

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Wv0GD)

393 Why is Trump talking about building new battleships?

They've come in handy with the Houthis and now Venezuela. And if Xi does go for Taiwan before the Three Gorges lets go there's going to be a significant naval component. (And after it lets go you'll need battleships to navigate mainland China, amirite?).

Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (84SEz)

394 377. Sure, they probably don't eat beef in public settings, or maybe the wine moms don't eat it at all and their husbands have to sneak off to a beef BBQ joint at lunch to get their red meat, but by large its probably like DiCaprio flying off in his private jet to some climate change conference where they announce that all the proles should give up their cars.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (hhkIi)

395 378 EweToob feed has this:

The Economy Grew But More People Are Living In Storage Sheds.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 01:26 PM (wVcYX)

....or living in tents...

Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (y171U)

396 >>>Look I am a simple artist and writer, not a smart military type despite being on here. Why is Trump talking about building new battleships??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

>He's trolling the chumps across the aisle, like with the White House Ballroom.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (nljXp)

397 Coming soon: "Upgrayde" of Spades
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (avHHk)

----

Ahem. There's two "D"s, for a double dose of this pimpin'.

Posted by: Upgrayedd at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (BI5O2)

398 376 >>> Look I am a simple artist and writer, not a smart military type despite being on here. Why is Trump talking about building new battleships??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:24 PM (3Amc7)

Boobs
Battleships
Beer
Posted by: banana Dream - Winning Platform at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM
I'd say battleship talk is just talk.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (LHPAg)

399 366 Look I am a simple artist and writer, not a smart military type despite being on here. Why is Trump talking about building new battleships??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

For a long time, US ships relied on carrier groups for protection along with Aegis missile defenses. The new era of throwaway drones plus massive anti ship missile numbers of teh Chicoms involved in any war with Chicoms means that we can no longer guarantee our current ships will not get hit hard by suicidal drones and missiles.

Basically the new 'battleship' seems to be a concentrated and more heavily armored platform for disputed seas where one does not want to risk carrier groups.

The ridiculous expenditures of high priced missiles in the Red Sea by naval ships to thwart cheap drone attacks by the Houthis means we need different and cheaper ways to intercept them because like Israel facing Iran, launch enough missiles, drones, etc, you can overload defensive means and run supplies of those expensive intercept missiles out.

So you need lasers, conventional slug throwers, etc. plus armor enough to make small scale hits easy to shrug off.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (WDjG6)

400 So, because of the special 4-year presidential responsibility delay, this result is really from Biden's first year in the White House?

I distinctly remember everything bad that happened in Obama's first term was definitely George Bush's fault.

Posted by: JB1000 at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (/gRa9)

401 CNN broad looks like she was weaned on a pickle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

CNN girl looks like Charlie sent an iron dildo up her butt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

the CNN newshag had a look on her face like there was a bad smell in the room.
Posted by: vivi
.......

I'm sensing a pattern here.

Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (v0R5T)

402 >He's trolling the chumps across the aisle, like with the White House Ballroom.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

I've briefly skimmed over the reasoning but it is because cheap drones and missiles have changed the calculus for our current Navy and its composition. We are facing a peer level navy (China) which we have not since WWII and the Japanese in the Pacific.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (WDjG6)

403 There is so much more to unpack here.

There are multiple things that are dragging that growth number DOWN from where should be:

1) reduced government spending - we are no longer pumping as much money into the economy. That reduces growth
2) loss of illegals should be disrupting growth.
3) Tariffs should be reducing growth.
4) Interest rate are too high and reduce growth.
5) Canada is in a massive depression, and Europe is stalling along with China. If we had strong exports, we'd grow even more.
6) various dumbass blue states like California, stifling growth.

If all of that wasn't also happening, you might see 5-6% growth right now. And, given the U.S. has the largest economy in the world, even small increases ingrowth represents HUGE swings in money. $30 trillion. 1% growth on that is $300 billion. That's like adding the economy of Finland to ours.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (C3IAS)

404 So you need lasers, conventional slug throwers, etc. plus armor enough to make small scale hits easy to shrug off.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (WDjG6)

Exactly. One idea I've always thought about is using water as a barrier. Simply spray ocean water using pumps to mask the ship. Small drones would be knocked down, and large fast drones it would be like hitting a brick wall - they would break up before hitting the ship.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (C3IAS)

405 As a Camaro owner, I heartily concur.

Posted by: Sydney Sweeney's Golden Beads of Sweat at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (XH8Su)

The Morning Rant-CBDless Edition

Mr. CBD is on a remote scouting mission. Something about Bourbon, snails, maple syrup and unsalted butter.

Lately life has been happening here in the Frozen Tundra and current events and politics has taken a back seat. I know there are multiple problems around the world including here in the Good Old USA.

For the first time in my *life* the USA has a president who is not a politician. Of course that would be Donald J. Trump. The nearest example of a president who was not a full-time, life-time politician was Ronald Reagan.

This country is poised to become a bigger and better light on the shining hill. However, the ~~GOP~~ Stupid Party and the new "Pundits" are in the process of soiling their beds and stepping on some type of appendage.

The first two years of Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 could have been terrific legislative sessions. Just imagine every Trump Executive Order becoming codified law? True, those laws could have been reversed with a ~~Democrat~~ Communist administration. But, it would have been work and would have slowed down their stupidity.

Yes the Stupid Party and Paul Ryan had how many years to draft a better health insurance plan? It was easy to piss and moan about it. But, they had no intention of repealing it let alone come up with something better.

Now 14 years after that ~~Affordable Health Care Act~~ Obamacare Bullshit is still forefront in the Washington DC fight between the Commies and the Estupidos. In the long run the Commies will win.

We know the Commies claim they love and cherish democracy. We know it's a lie. But the likes of John Thune and Gary Johnson would rather let the Commies walk over them when it comes to the silent filibuster and judicial blue slip shenanigans to name just a few.

Johnson should be leading impeachments against the sitting federal magistrates and judges who have been playing whack a mole with Trump's agenda. Granted, the senate will not convict them. But Judas Fvcking Priest, fight. Expose the leftist judges.

And that is why you have President Trump.

Now, we got rid of the "pundits" such as Bill Kristol, Rick "PenisHead" Wilson, Charlie Sykes with the 2015 Trump run - 2016 Trump election.

But, nature hates a vacuum and now we have Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro to name just a few who have replaced the Never-Trumpers. I'm not sure what we should call this group, perhaps NutCases^TM But whatever it is called, I want to be part of the Never-NutCases.

Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes can go and have their Third Reich love fest without me and the Conservative movement.

Candace, no one. And I mean no one cares about the genitalia of a French woman. And the ONLY person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk has been arrested.

Ben Shapiro, I support Israel. I always have and always will. But, the USA interests come first and should always come first. We are $38 trillion in debt. We need to put America First not Israel First.

I live in a high gas sales tax state. So many of you may have seen lower prices. But, I'm enjoying the $2.67 gallon gas. I've seen the grocery prices coming down. It looks like prescription drug prices are going to come down significantly.

Mike Johnson, John Thune, govern! You have 9-10 months to make significant inroads to restore common sense. Mike Johnson, John Thune, (I won't ask MTG or Mitch McConnell for example) Are you ready and willing to run with the MAGA platform or is your new leadership, same as the old leadership?

And lastly to the Nut-Cases, shut your mouths. Take your fingers away from your key boards. And take some time to read and comprehend President Reagan's 11th Commandment. Take your problems behind closed doors.

*Remember I'm only 29 years old*

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 11:00 AM

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1 Hey y'all!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (22p5n)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: kactus at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (twS2i)

3 As long as there's the filibuster, I don't think conservatives are ever going to be able to govern or reform really anything.

And the next time the Dems have both houses of Congress, the entire filibuster will be going away. Harry Reid got rid of it for judicial nominees, and no one even cared.

GOP should nuke it now and get some things passed.

Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (eIzlH)

4 Not gonna lie, hard getting worked up anymore. Probably because I've got my personal plate full right now. Probably also because it feels like the same arguments over and over and I'm just tired.

I'm getting too old for this garbage. Younger folk, your turn. Good luck, and God bless, you're gonna need it.

(No, I'm not doing anything rash and irreversible. Just admitting what I've known for years.)

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (OUMaO)

5 Mis Hum, such a joy seeing a Harambe post again.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:01 AM (WeQvm)

6 I wish I could post photos here - I'd post a picture of the $1.99 gas at the pump I just got this morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK8)

7 Patriotic men and women in Congress would do exactly as MisHum suggests.

Grifters find excuses not to do so.

Let's see what happens.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (of9Mm)

8 Excellent Airing of Grievances list!

Happy Festivus!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (WeQvm)

9 6 I wish I could post photos here - I'd post a picture of the $1.99 gas at the pump I just got this morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK

=======

"This is only happening because no one is buying gas."
-troll, soon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

10 For the first time in my *life* the USA has a president who is not a politician. Of course that would be Donald J. Trump. The nearest example of a president who was not a full-time, life-time politician was Ronald Reagan.
________
I don't know how old you are, but for me, the first such President was Ike. And he had some predecessors, though he was also the first of my parents' lives.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (s0JqF)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

12 I'm not sure what we should call this group, perhaps NutCases™

The mainstream media, who have always had my best interests at heart, has named them the "New Faces of MAGA". So I have to follow them now (as they attempt to lead us away from MAGA)

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (6LzyB)

13 So, I guess we're giving up nooding for the holidays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

14 Ben Sasse announced he is dying. Pancreatic cancer. Was a senator from Nebraska but retired a few years ago.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)

15 Sponge!!!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (22p5n)

16 3 As long as there's the filibuster, I don't think conservatives are ever going to be able to govern or reform really anything.

And the next time the Dems have both houses of Congress, the entire filibuster will be going away. Harry Reid got rid of it for judicial nominees, and no one even cared.

GOP should nuke it now and get some things passed.
Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (eIzlH)

I disagree, but the manner of reforms have to change, and it's a bit sad. (It's happening already) Congress is already mostly irrelevant, it will become completely irrelevant, much like happened to the old Roman Senate. They will sit in the building and talk, but it's just kabuki theater. All reform and control will come through taking charge of the bureaucracy, the military, and the courts. Dems figured that out before our side did, but this is our chance to take it all back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK8)

17 >For the first time in my *life* the USA has a president who is not a politician. Of course that would be Donald J. Trump.
----

I think that's a source (one of them) of so much vitriol directed at him from all sides. Because he has no political past. He came into the organization at the CEO level, and this really burns all the careerists in politics. How dare he crash the party!

I think of him as the Rodney Dangerfield character in Caddyshack.

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:06 AM (ZxPkt)

18
Merry Christmas MisHum.

Thank you for all you do.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:06 AM (3ek7K)

19 Obamacare is like one of those shoe factories in the old Soviet Union. The one metric for productivity was "How many shoes did you produce." So, the factory managers would meet the metric by producing nothing but one shoe size, size 6, to meet the quota.

Obamacare has one metric. "Maximize the number of people insured." Quality of care .... pffft. Cost of insurance ... pffft, just subsidize it to meet the metric.

And that's why health care sucks.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (f0sNM)

20 Ben Sasse announced he is dying. Pancreatic cancer. Was a senator from Nebraska but retired a few years ago.
Posted by: banana Dream

No Ruth Bader Meinhoff gambit?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (lEejK)

21 14 Ben Sasse announced he is dying. Pancreatic cancer. Was a senator from Nebraska but retired a few years ago.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)
_______
Not a favorite, but he has my prayers. That's what took my father.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (s0JqF)

22 Sponge!!!
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (22p5n)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Sponge, if Mrs S vertigo persists, she may need to see a vestibular rehab therapist for an assessment.
Sometimes vertigo issues need special exercises.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (k8boH)

24 16 I disagree, but the manner of reforms have to change, and it's a bit sad. (It's happening already) Congress is already mostly irrelevant, it will become completely irrelevant, much like happened to the old Roman Senate. They will sit in the building and talk, but it's just kabuki theater. All reform and control will come through taking charge of the bureaucracy, the military, and the courts. Dems figured that out before our side did, but this is our chance to take it all back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK

=====

The most important part:

Congress is mostly irrelevant.

They do political theater and almost nothing else. The actual power of the federal government has lied with the executive for a very long time.

"Oh, no! Congress will impeach Trump if Democrats win in 2026!"
"And the Senate won't convict, all while Trump runs the executive as he wants, deporting millions of people, culling regulations, and prosecuting criminal activity by his enemies."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

25 Ben Shapiro, I support Israel. I always have and always will. But, the USA interests come first and should always come first. We are $38 trillion in debt. We need to put America First not Israel First.

MisHum, I don't see support for Israel as an Israel v. US thing. I see it as a Western Civilization vs. Islam thing. It transcends the two countries as I see it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

26 USA interests come first and should always come first. We are $38 trillion in debt. We need to put America First not Israel First.

—

This is LITERALLY what Tucker and Nick Fuentes say as well. But when they say it they’re Nazis somehow?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (UJWr0)

27 14 Ben Sasse announced he is dying. Pancreatic cancer. Was a senator from Nebraska but retired a few years ago.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)

Well I'm sorry for him, he's only 53, a tragedy for his family.
(I do recall that he always talked a big game but always voted with the deep state)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (uWKK8)

28 Now during Christmas season, a young man is broke, in debt, and has been defamed in the press. Won't you help?

NEW: Hunter Biden Reveals He’s Nearly $15 Million in Debt
“I’ve got $15 Million in debt that I have no idea that I'm going to be able to pay off … We have no generational wealth.”

NEW: Hunter Biden Now Says His ‘Laptop From Hell’ Was Fabricated
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

29 The GOP hasn't changed much from Trump I. Throughout the judicial coup they've been pretty quiet. I take that as passive approval. Tanking the midterms are certainly on the table.

The center of power has shifted, and the GOP is terrified of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (NwnyJ)

30 MisHum speaks the truth

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (jvxGE)

31 And right on cue our favorite "judge" Boasberg has ordered Trump to return 100 Venezuelan gang members back from El Salvador by Jan 5th...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

32 https://tinyurl.com/4pv7dn9u

Are these really monkeys?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (Kt19C)

33 I shall stay hopeful despite everything.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (lXoJ5)

34 14 Ben Sasse announced he is dying. Pancreatic cancer. Was a senator from Nebraska but retired a few years ago.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)
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Not a favorite, but he has my prayers. That's what took my father.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (s0JqF)
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After his vote to convict PDJT in the second impeachment trial he dropped off my list, but I now wish him and his poor family the very best in this last race. This is sad news indeed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (of9Mm)

35 Sponge, if Mrs S vertigo persists, she may need to see a vestibular rehab therapist for an assessment.
Sometimes vertigo issues need special exercises.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (k8boH)

The Epley Maneuver has already been mentioned, but I'll tell her this as well.

We've met the insurance deductible, again, so maybe this would a covered item.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

36 ordered Trump to return 100 Venezuelan gang members back from El Salvador by Jan 5th...

100 at random?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Kt19C)

37 Hey, SMH. My wife was asking me how you're doing yesterday. I told her you were looking for a new house.

How's that going?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

38 right on cue our favorite "judge" Boasberg has ordered Trump to return 100 Venezuelan gang members back from El Salvador by Jan 5th...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

How is this even remotely a thing? A judge is now ordering other countries around?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (UJWr0)

39 GW was a full time politician of course, from a family of the same. But he had 50 years of military service, college, and business before he debauched his self. Too bad he sucks so much. Did he ever have a chance with that family and the circles they mingled in? Probably not.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (3uBP9)

40 Ben Sasse announced he is dying. Pancreatic cancer. Was a senator from Nebraska but retired a few years ago.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)

Well I'm sorry for him, he's only 53, a tragedy for his family.
(I do recall that he always talked a big game but always voted with the deep state)
Posted by: Tom Servo

Took my brother in law at the same age.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (lEejK)

41 The Associated Press
@AP
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.

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And Islam has nothing to do with it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

42
100 at random?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Kt19C)

I guess he said he has "information" that these poor souls are innocent.. Innocent I tell you !

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (VE6XX)

43 I saw The Commies and The Estupidos open for Molotov at Patio Corona in '97.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (LgsNJ)

44 NEW: Hunter Biden Now Says His ‘Laptop From Hell’ Was Fabricated
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

Lying sack of shit lies, proves he's a sack of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

45 “There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
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Just checked, my main email has over 20,000 emails (this includes after the occasional deleting which isn't much fun. though I'll see if AI can help with this task)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)

46 The economy grew by a huge 4.3 % rate in the third quarter, unexpectedly.

Boom!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (of9Mm)

47 34 After his vote to convict PDJT in the second impeachment trial he dropped off my list, but I now wish him and his poor family the very best in this last race. This is sad news indeed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (of9Mm)

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At the lowest point in Trump's presidency, 1/6 in the recent past, the greatest sin against DC power that DC power could manage to imagine, and they still fell 10 votes short in the Senate.

That's how pointless fear of impeachment is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

48 right on cue our favorite "judge" Boasberg has ordered Trump to return 100 Venezuelan gang members back from El Salvador by Jan 5th...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

Somewhere, there's a Queensrÿche lyric that covers this........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

49 NEW: Hunter Biden Reveals He’s Nearly $15 Million in Debt
“I’ve got $15 Million in debt that I have no idea that I'm going to be able to pay off

Then why worry about it? Heck, make it $1.5 billion (was that Alex Jones' bill?)

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (6LzyB)

50 Yeah, I figured everyone would remember Sasse and what he did so I didn't want to rehash it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (3uBP9)

51 “There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."

sure bob

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF)

52 How is this even remotely a thing? A judge is now ordering other countries around?
_____

Boasberg orders Trump to nuke Moscow. Bondi files appeal.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Dv3i1)

53 Nick Fuentes is making a stir with the younger crowd because he is speaking to people who know no one who fought in WW2, it is as dead to them as the Civil War was to you when growing up. As such, and since the young white straight male has been called a Nazi for their entire lifetimes they are taking the label and running with it. At a certain point, if you gotta be a Nazi, you might as well be cool, as a Nazi.

Expecting a Gen Z or Gen Alpha to have an emotional reaction to the Holocaust or WW2 is like expecting a Boomer to have an emotional reaction to the Maine, or the Civil War. They look at footage of Nazis and see the Hugo Boss uniforms, and the confidence of young fighting men fighting for a cause they believe in, and think "Hey - the skulls and lightning bolt insignias are kinda cool, I wish I were one of those guys. I wonder if that is the 'White Privilege I am supposed to have."

Posted by: Josh at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (hLJSV)

54 Willowed:
I dunno. Trump moves fast. His name is already on the Kennedy Center.
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It'd take 5 years to design, another 5 of redesign, and a decade to build the first one. Presuming it isn't canceled by the Democrats before it sees the light of day.

Shipbuilding in the US sucks. Unless we're talking submarines or, maybe, aircraft carriers.

It's supposed to be built by a Korean-owned shipyard here in the US. That could make a BIG difference.

I think it's just a continuation of the LEGEND Class Coast Guard cutters being built by Ingalls in Mississippi.
Doing this keeps the production line hot and doesn't create a delay for design and development.

The cutters are about the size of a frigate so instead of being painted white and going to the Coast Guard they'll be painted gray and go to the Navy.
Put some missiles and laser weapons on board and designate it as a cruiser.

The CG has a cutter the size of a battleship?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

55 Yeah, the Epley maneuver is just for crystals. It could be something else.

Anyway, in evaluating the therapist puts special goggles on the patient and makes them do stuff (look right, look left, stand, lie down, etc) to figure put what is wonky.

If the ER didn't do this then that would be next.

Of course if it's just sinuses it might clear up on its own.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:13 AM (WeQvm)

56 46 The economy grew by a huge 4.3 % rate in the third quarter, unexpectedly.

Boom!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (of9Mm)

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False, the economy can't grow if we're deporting people and if no one is buying anything and if government jobs are being slashed.

It's literally impossible.

Trump should be impeached for GDP growth while destroying the American economy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

57 They are not soiling their beds; their beds are nicely feathered, and come with golden parachutes for when they decide it is time to go to pasture.

They're taking the dump in our beds, because we aren't the party they wanted us to be and they want us to stop demanding they fill the promises they never meant to keep.

Posted by: Voyager at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (lk05u)

58 Expecting a Gen Z or Gen Alpha to have an emotional reaction to the Holocaust or WW2 is like expecting a Boomer to have an emotional reaction to the Maine, or the Civil War.
Posted by: Josh

I've had plenty of arguments with my Boomer BiL about the Civil War.

And probably with many Boomers here.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

59 How is this even remotely a thing? A judge is now ordering other countries around?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (UJWr0)

They're not going to do it, probably not going to be able to. Boasberg is coming up with orders that he think will allow him to make a contempt charge; he needs to be kicked out of all of these cases by a higher court.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (uWKK8)

60 59 They're not going to do it, probably not going to be able to. Boasberg is coming up with orders that he think will allow him to make a contempt charge; he needs to be kicked out of all of these cases by a higher court.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (uWKK

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Doing this while facing a writ of mandamus is ballsy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

61 Crazy ass sumbitch!

From the 60 Minutes segment:

"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

62 >>>This country is poised to become a bigger and better light on the shining hill. However, the GOP Stupid Party and the new "Pundits" are in the process of soiling their beds and stepping on some type of appendage.
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Some biblical discussion last night. The first thing the Maccabees did before attacking the Romans was to kill the Hellenized Jews.
Moses came down from the mount and ordered the Levites to clean house.

If Trump could take a page from that book.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (Mis34)

63 They're taking the dump in our beds, because we aren't the party they wanted us to be and they want us to stop demanding they fill the promises they never meant to keep.
Posted by: Voyager at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (lk05u)

That's hot.

Posted by: Amber Heard at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

64 61 Crazy ass sumbitch!

From the 60 Minutes segment:

"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

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"Wait...that's a problem?"
-like, 80% of the country

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

65
I wish I could post photos here - I'd post a picture of the $1.99 gas at the pump I just got this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK

I used to text photos of $1.97 Texas gas to my conservative death beast brother here in Clownifornia, just to be a dick. No caption, I just let the photo do the talking.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (y9nCu)

66 61 Crazy ass sumbitch!

From the 60 Minutes segment:

"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

What part of "illegal" do they not understand ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (VE6XX)

67
"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

What exactly do you think 'illegally' means?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

68 53 Nick Fuentes is making a stir with the younger crowd ..."

the only "younger crowd" he is making a stir with are the ones who inhabit the bot farms of India and Nigeria.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (uWKK8)

69 I live in a high gas sales tax state. So many of you may have seen lower prices. But, I'm enjoying the $2.67 gallon gas.

Central Iowa now has gas at under $2/gallon. E85 is $1.28/gallon lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ycI94)

70 66
What part of "illegal" do they not understand ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (VE6XX)

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They have some didactic point about crossing the border illegally being a civil, not a criminal, offense.

It's still deportable, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

71 As long as there's the filibuster, I don't think conservatives are ever going to be able to govern or reform really anything.

And the next time the Dems have both houses of Congress, the entire filibuster will be going away. Harry Reid got rid of it for judicial nominees, and no one even cared.

GOP should nuke it now and get some things passed.
Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (eIzlH)

The filibuster isn't going away. People have been saying that for forty years. It's too useful and neither side in the Senate really gives a shit about going on the record as changing things.

Let's assume for a moment that we do get rid of the filibuster to "get some things passed". Every one of those things will be undone as soon as the Democrats have power again. Day 1. The country will, at best, be whipsawed between radically different visions and, at worst, they'll settle for an EU-like bureaucratic hellhole in an effort to have some consistency.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

72 69 I live in a high gas sales tax state. So many of you may have seen lower prices. But, I'm enjoying the $2.67 gallon gas.

$3.79 at Costco here in NorCal

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (VE6XX)

73 “There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."

sure bob
Posted by: BlackOrchid

His word as a Biden!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)

74 68 53 Nick Fuentes is making a stir with the younger crowd ..."

the only "younger crowd" he is making a stir with are the ones who inhabit the bot farms of India and Nigeria.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (uWKK

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This has apparently been confirmed. The vast majority of his traffic comes from the Middle East.

It's an op, best ignored, because it doesn't actually involve many Americans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

75 Central Iowa now has gas at under $2/gallon. E85 is $1.28/gallon lol.
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Iowa grows corn to feed your vehicle.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (Dv3i1)

76
Central Iowa now has gas at under $2/gallon. E85 is $1.28/gallon lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ycI94)

E85 should not exist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

77 ordered Trump to return 100 Venezuelan gang members back from El Salvador by Jan 5th...

100 at random?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Kt19C)

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His 100 fellow bathhouse pedos.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (LgsNJ)

78 O/T, but even Insty is now running with the "Lawrence mayor can't speak English" story.

Once more, for those in Rio Linda: DePena CAN speak English. There is video of him doing so. He CHOSE NOT to speak English.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (ufSfZ)

79 Ace goes through these phases on twitter where he's just ruthlessly spanking and whipping megyn around. And then he's a lovey fanboy. And then back to more pinch and tickle.

Does he realize what that can do to a gal?

I sure hope they have a safe word.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:18 AM (3uBP9)

80 53 Nick Fuentes is making a stir with the younger crowd because he is speaking to people who know no one who fought in WW2, it is as dead to them as the Civil War was to you when growing up.

—

During his interview with Nick Fuentes, Piers Morgan showed a clip of some British lord talking about his grandparents being killed by Hitler and Stalin. And this was supposed to make Nick Fuentes see the folly of his ways and realize his entire world view is wrong.

Nick’s reaction was; I was born in 1978 in Chicago. I don’t care what happened to this guy’s grandparents in Europe in 1940.

Piers was all whaaaaaa? How can you say that? The perfect boomer vs zoomer mindset on this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:18 AM (UJWr0)

81 God bless D. D. Eisenhower, but he was a life-long federal employee. The New Deal machine just kept humming along during his two-term tenure.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)

82 I live in a high gas sales tax state. So many of you may have seen lower prices. But, I'm enjoying the $2.67 gallon gas.

$2.73 here in my corner of Maskachusetts.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (ufSfZ)

83 “There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."

sure bob
Posted by: BlackOrchid

His word as a Biden!

What is his point? Biden pere can't even get his homies to build him a library. Nobody is going to give Hunter a penny.

It's over, dude. Your best bet now is to jump into a volcano.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

84 Nick Fuentes is a CIA op put in place to splinter the right. Period.

He was shilling for Kumswala Harris last election. To suddenly say he's a far right wing juggernaut is disingenuous at best.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

85 still over $3 in PA

we have the second highest gas tax I think? and it's pegged to inflation or just a general increase annually.

rrrrrrr

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (emBoF)

86 Yay, a Mis Hum rant. ONT Emeritus status, like a wise elder from the village. Still surprised the electrons can move to us through the frozen tundra muck. Maybe the fiber is buried under the permafrost somehow?

Posted by: No Tech Whiz Here at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (oftw2)

87 We know the Commies claim they love and cherish democracy. We know it's a lie. But the likes of John Thune and Gary Johnson would rather let the Commies walk over them when it comes to the silent filibuster and judicial blue slip shenanigans to name just a few.
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There is an interpretation where it is not a lie.

1. Create a dependent underclass that is the majority of all people
2. Make sure the dependent underclass is dependent on the government
3. Make sure the government on which the underclass depends is controlled by you, and therefore by proxy the underclass depends on you
4. Enthusiastically support majority rule, looting and killing the minority to support your position by transferring a small portion of the loot the majority
5. Keep it up until there is nothing left to loot

Only when step 5 fails do you need to become non-"democratic"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (avHHk)

88 84 Nick Fuentes is a CIA op put in place to splinter the right. Period.

He was shilling for Kumswala Harris last election. To suddenly say he's a far right wing juggernaut is disingenuous at best.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

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And he's so powerful and effective that he went to Michigan to make sure Trump lost the state...and Trump won the state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

89 This has apparently been confirmed. The vast majority of his traffic comes from the Middle East.

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Who confirmed it? Oh right NCRI. The far left group funded by Soros and started to fight “online misinformation”. As a bonus Liz Cheney is involved with them.

A totally unbiased source if I’ve ever seen one.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (UJWr0)

90 What is his point? Biden pere can't even get his homies to build him a library. Nobody is going to give Hunter a penny.

oh hunt is full of shit

he has plenty of money, just doesn't want to be on the hook for legal fees or alimony/child support

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (emBoF)

91 Gas in Caligula is at $4.38/gl regular cheapest. Newscum can bring that and higher if we just elect him.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (xvV+O)

92 Silver spot at $70.33 per oz. That means a silver dime has $5.02 worth of silver in it. It also means the JP Morgan $70 call is in the money and that bank has to sell silver, at $70, to people who bought their call. My prediction: some Jr traders, at the bank, who let the price break $70 today are going to be looking for new job come the 1st of the year.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (Da7Vv)

93 Hey, MP4, how goes it? How's the new novel coming along?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

94 89 This has apparently been confirmed. The vast majority of his traffic comes from the Middle East.

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Who confirmed it? Oh right NCRI. The far left group funded by Soros and started to fight “online misinformation”. As a bonus Liz Cheney is involved with them.

A totally unbiased source if I’ve ever seen one.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (UJWr0)

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So...a far left source has verified, against interest, that Nick Fuentes isn't actually appealing to the American right?

Also, Elon Musk confirmed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

95 ***Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro
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These people are subversives and should be handled as such. Alex Jones is hyperbolic, extreme, and totally pro-American. Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro are not pro-American they are despicable subversives.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (Mis34)

96 You should read that article on Roomba in the tech report the other day. They are filing for bankruptcy. There's a market for them, that will now be filled by the Chinese. They tried to get approval for a merger with Amazon that was blocked. I ordered mine before I knew about all this, but it makes me angry to have American made products removed as an option by the bureaucrats.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (+mUZM)

97 How much of that $38 Trillion might be considered odious debt?

Regardless, that won’t be “paid off” or whatever. That isn’t how government financing works. “Reserve currency” status of the US dollar may well have been a curse. When government spending ended gold convertibility, the dollar was allowed to “float”, and certain security arrangements were made with respect to crude oil being priced, purchased and settled in dollars worldwide. Thus the “petrodollar”, a huge market for dollars outside the US.

I’m not smart enough to know if all those dollars could somehow return to the US. If so, Katy bar the door.

Some sort of debt repudiation, re-valuation + monetary inflation is baked into this cake. The real issue is how the government plans to continue to make timely interest payments on the debt. It will continue to eat ever larger portions of tax revenue until it subsumes everything.

Do they have a plan for that? Do they act like they have a plan for that? They act like they are looting a corpse. When was the last time a major Democrat or Republican politician or candidate talked about a favorable balance of trade? We are well into fairy tale economics.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (+/0+/)

98 Central Iowa now has gas at under $2/gallon. E85 is $1.28/gallon lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ycI94)

E85 should not exist.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Agreed. E18 is about as high as we go, but it's grape-based, not grain.

Posted by: Hillary and Kamala at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (ycI94)

99 85 still over $3 in PA

we have the second highest gas tax I think? and it's pegged to inflation or just a general increase annually.

rrrrrrr
Posted by: BlackOrchid

I might suggest burning down the governor's mansion, but I guess that's been tried already.

Posted by: The Little Match Girl at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (oftw2)

100 Mike Johnson, John Thune, govern! You have 9-10 months to make significant inroads to restore common sense.
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govern, v: to acquire and maintain power and wealth by making false promises to constituents and then working against their interests in favor of your own

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (avHHk)

101 The CG has a cutter the size of a battleship?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

No, but they have cutters whose preferred pronouns are BB.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (ExV1e)

102 >>> God bless D. D. Eisenhower, but he was a life-long federal employee. The New Deal machine just kept humming along during his two-term tenure.
Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)

I knew an older navy guy in a machine shop I worked in that absolutely hated Eisenhower. I knew this not only because he talked at length about how the whole navy was wronged by him but also because his worst possible curse, that he reserved for very special occasions, was to invoke the name. You knew shit was about to go down whenever you heard him say Eisenhower.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (3uBP9)

103 NEW: Hunter Biden Reveals He’s Nearly $15 Million in Debt
“I’ve got $15 Million in debt that I have no idea that I'm going to be able to pay off

Then why worry about it? Heck, make it $1.5 billion (was that Alex Jones' bill?)
Posted by: t-bird

If you owe the bank $1 million you have a problem.
If you owe the bank $1 billion, the bank has a problem.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (lEejK)

104 Well, they were predestined to do it.

Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians

https://is.gd/XYi2TH

-
'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

105 100 Mike Johnson, John Thune, govern! You have 9-10 months to make significant inroads to restore common sense.
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govern, v: to acquire and maintain power and wealth by making false promises to constituents and then working against their interests in favor of your own

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (avHHk)

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Here's my thing:

Do we need...more laws?

Or is the problem that we have a shit ton of laws that the powerful simply don't enforce?

What's another law, "This time, we're serious," going to do? The problem in America isn't the law, it's the enforcement side.

Congress not being that productive doesn't bother me that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

106 Nick Fuentes is a nobody and his following fake.

Which is why the TPUSA AmFest was devoted to Kong but talking about him. And why Mark Levin and Little Ben are both on a jihad against him. Because he’s so inconsequential I guess.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (UJWr0)

107 Doing this while facing a writ of mandamus is ballsy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah. If he keeps this up he might get another. /shudder

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

108 >>They're not going to do it, probably not going to be able to. Boasberg is coming up with orders that he think will allow him to make a contempt charge; he needs to be kicked out of all of these cases by a higher court.

We don't even recognize Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. It's a completely idiotic ruling.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)

109 Expecting a Gen Z or Gen Alpha to have an emotional reaction to the Holocaust or WW2 is like expecting a Boomer to have an emotional reaction to the Maine, or the Civil War.
Posted by: Josh

I've had plenty of arguments with my Boomer BiL about the Civil War.

And probably with many Boomers here.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

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Bottom Line: Those of us over 29 (primarily Boomers and Gen X) were actually taught history.

The Millennials and subsequent generations have been taught little if any history -- and primarily to hate Western Civilization and their countries.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (LgsNJ)

110 A quick pop quiz ! (no cheating , I see you !) who said : "Israel needs to become self-sufficient. Israel always needed to be self-sufficient. They need to be more militarily self-sufficient, they need to get off of American aid, and they need to generate an economic dynamism, unleash the economy over there sufficient to pay for all of that."

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (g47mK)

111 9 6 I wish I could post photos here - I'd post a picture of the $1.99 gas at the pump I just got this morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK

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"This is only happening because no one is buying gas."
-troll, soon
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

No one uses gas anymore. It's too expensive.

Posted by: yogi berra's abused corpse at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (IVZwn)

112 104 Well, they were predestined to do it.

Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians

https://is.gd/XYi2TH

-
'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

I guess they put new meaning to Now we wear Our Gay apparel...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)

113 see here I thought the mofos in the IC would give their guys off for the holidays

guess not!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (emBoF)

114 Which is why the TPUSA AmFest was devoted to Kong but talking about him. And why Mark Levin and Little Ben are both on a jihad against him. Because he’s so inconsequential I guess.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (UJWr0

They are ALL bought and paid for shills that have NO interest in American Greatness other than their f*cking bank account.

Period.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

115 Would you agree that whoever said that is America First ??

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (g47mK)

116 God bless D. D. Eisenhower, but he was a life-long federal employee. The New Deal machine just kept humming along during his two-term tenure.
Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)

Part of the reason the Taf crowd hated him so much.

Ike deserves a lot of credit for not letting the asshole generals and clown-shoe politicos bum-rush the US into WW3, but he didn't have any desire to tame the incipient welfare state.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (ufSfZ)

117 No, but they have cutters whose preferred pronouns are BB.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Bah!

https://shorturl.at/ZyXKy

I prefer DDs.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (ycI94)

118 I guess they put new meaning to Now we wear Our Gay apparel...

Is fabulous! Gay-Vare!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

119 Hey, SMH. My wife was asking me how you're doing yesterday. I told her you were looking for a new house.

How's that going?
Posted by: Bulg
___

We're not really looking until the spring at the earliest.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (22p5n)

120 It's an op, best ignored, because it doesn't actually involve many Americans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

And both of those are Moo Moo, and Joe Xiden.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (npFr7)

121
We're not really looking until the spring at the earliest.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (22p5n)

If I can get off my lazy ass and get things done around here, that's when we're hoping to have ours on the market.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

122 Ike deserves a lot of credit for not letting the asshole generals and clown-shoe politicos bum-rush the US into WW3, but he didn't have any desire to tame the incipient welfare state.

Ike burned a LOT of political capital talking about the MIC and how to control it. The welfare state didn't really get going until Johnson.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

123 Well, they were predestined to do it.

Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians

https://is.gd/XYi2TH

-
'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

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Have yourself ...
A furry little Christmas

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:27 AM (LgsNJ)

124 I guess they put new meaning to Now we wear Our Gay apparel...

Vest & turtleneck with white shoes?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (lEejK)

125 ... “Reserve currency” status of the US dollar may well have been a curse. ...
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (+/0+/)
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It has certain benefits, like being able to outsource inflation. When you're the reserve currency, a lot of it needs to be outside your borders. If you can keep your new emissions (new unbacked credit - I'm looking at you, US federal budget) to at or below the amount of growth in global trade flow that settles in your currency, you get to print money for free by locking up the excess overseas.

What happens when either global trade flow growth fails to offset printing growth, or when trade stops settling in your currency, is "look out below" territory because that money *will* repatriate over time because it has to. Nobody holds worthless money for no reason. If you the reason away, back it comes while it can still buy something.

We've done both. Trade flows are reducing and our punitive actions against Russia broke trust in a uniform reserve currency controlled by a single party.

Absorbing repatriating money is one of the reasons tariffs aren't a bad idea right now, but it's a narrow window.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (avHHk)

126 Hey, MP4, how goes it? How's the new novel coming along?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

Slowly. I owe a couple of people other writing projects, so I probably won't get back to it until after the new year. Other than that, just trying to keep loneliness and depression at bay.

How you?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (ufSfZ)

127
I prefer DDs.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (ycI94)

You asked for it.........

https://is.gd/z48ltX

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

128
$3.79 at Costco here in NorCal

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (VE6XX)

___________

Done seen some $1.99 cash, but we're down to about $2.05 here in Brazoria County, TX.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (tgvbd)

129 I hear more about the Civil War now than I did when I was a kid. The Left fixates on it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (+mUZM)

130 Little Ben has lost over 50% of his audience this year. Both his views and subscriber numbers are in free fall. Israel First isn’t selling anymore.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (UJWr0)

131 Illustrative of Mike Johnson and the houses weakness is the House Whip, Tom Emmer. He may or may not be a nice guy but being a nice guy is not his job.

Whip is not only a title it is a job description.
Whip is selected by committee or something but those choosing the Whip are part and parcel of our problem with the House.

We're not getting anywhere until these slugs have some salt on their tails and get moving.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (Mis34)

132 129 I hear more about the Civil War now than I did when I was a kid. The Left fixates on it.
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Mmm, that's cuz they are running slaves.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (pLaQB)

133 Are Daddy and Grandpa really broke, Mommy? Will we be able to afford to live the lifestyle to which we have become accustomed? Is there a stocking hung by the chimney with care with my name on it?

Posted by: Navy Joan Biden at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (oftw2)

134 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (9VT5v)

135 ---------------
Mmm, that's cuz they are running slaves.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (pLaQB)

Some things never change.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

136 Or don't you love Gaia?

The Scrooges at the Associated Press say Christmas candles and fireplaces should be used "in moderation"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

137 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (9VT5v)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

138
Have yourself ...
A furry little Christmas

-------------

Speaking of which ... * channels Nurse *

IT'S TUMMY-RUB TUESDAY! RUB THOSE LITTLE FURRY TUMMIES ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (LgsNJ)

139 Here's my thing:

Do we need...more laws?

Or is the problem that we have a shit ton of laws that the powerful simply don't enforce?

What's another law, "This time, we're serious," going to do? The problem in America isn't the law, it's the enforcement side.

Congress not being that productive doesn't bother me that much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
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Far too many, and too many contradictions. Add in regulatory codices (as they have the force of law in many cases) and it gets even worse.

There is one question every aspirational Draco needs to ask himself before uttering, "there ought to be a law," which is "is this thing worth killing someone over?" That *is,* like it or not, the final point of any law: comply or face enforcement, resist enforcement and die."

Is it important to kill a man over? No? Then it shouldn't be a law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (avHHk)

140 Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (9VT5v)

Hush, the adults are talking.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

141 Yes. We certainly missed TJM yesterday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

142 There is no laptop

Follow your brother into the darkness, coke head.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (lXoJ5)

143 They are ALL bought and paid for shills that have NO interest in American Greatness other than their f*cking bank account.

Period.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Nick has been doing this for 10 years. The first 8 of those 10 years he made nothing because he was banned everywhere. Even banks refused to do business with him.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (UJWr0)

144 >>> but it makes me angry to have American made products removed as an option by the bureaucrats.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
---

Trump has gotten rid of thousands but still enough remain to foul our system and foul his goals.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Mis34)

145 Merry Christmas to all Frank Zappa fans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIV69pq_Tw

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (0sNs1)

146
I'm not sure what we should call this group, perhaps NutCasesTM

Googley-eyed NutCasesTM works for me.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:32 AM (xG4kz)

147 This is LITERALLY what Tucker and Nick Fuentes say as well. But when they say it they’re Nazis somehow?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Its quite tedious watching you shill for those two. That's not "LITERALLY what Tucker and Nick Fuentes say"--they say a LOT of antisemitic bullshit. Fuentes dry humps the history of Hitler and Tucker is fascinated with Islam and critical of pretty much anything related to supported Israel. Your daily support of them is bigoted and pathetic.

Posted by: Crusader Channelling Godwin at December 23, 2025 11:32 AM (TN0g+)

148 They have some didactic point about crossing the border illegally being a civil, not a criminal, offense.

It's still deportable, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

Which is dumb. Because it is in fact a criminal offense.

Posted by: 8 USC 1325, 1326 at December 23, 2025 11:33 AM (IVZwn)

149 Or don't you love Gaia?

The Scrooges at the Associated Press say Christmas candles and fireplaces should be used "in moderation"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

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Pacific Palisades hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:33 AM (LgsNJ)

150 Yes. We certainly missed TJM yesterday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM

It's not the same, but hopefully this fills the void slightly:

* considers mentioning Prometheus *

* decides to keep Thread Prometheus-free *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 11:33 AM (0sNs1)

151 Every poll in the past 3 years has shown support for Israel plummeting. Especially among the yuuuuuthes.

Tucker et al are a reflection of this. Call them Nazis until you’re blue in the face it’s not going to change anything.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (UJWr0)

152
Nick has been doing this for 10 years. The first 8 of those 10 years he made nothing because he was banned everywhere. Even banks refused to do business with him.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (UJWr0)

I don't care. He's a piece of shit sellout shill in place to splinter the right in an effort to "get Trump."

He, along with the REST of the loudmouth f*cktards, can ESAD. That goes for Levin. That goes for Shapiro. That goes for Owens. They can ALL just f*ck RIGHT OFF. You too, Carlson.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

153
The Scrooges at the Associated Press say Christmas candles and fireplaces should be used "in moderation"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

See if you can keep a candle burning while the burning end is shoved up your asses, Scoldy McScoldFaces.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (xG4kz)

154 Add in regulatory codices

A fish in your pants?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (Kt19C)

155 Nick has been doing this for 10 years. The first 8 of those 10 years he made nothing because he was banned everywhere. Even banks refused to do business with him.
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"Nick" isn't one of ours--what is your obsession with him? He openly stated he supported Kamala Harris, and he's also on record that he intends to disrupt Republican primaries in 2028, targetting Vance and Rubio. Why do continue with this bullshit mantra that he's worth any conservative's attention when he has made it clear he's not on our team?

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (TN0g+)

156 Ike burned a LOT of political capital talking about the MIC and how to control it. The welfare state didn't really get going until Johnson.

True, but I meant that the country had already gone through years of social security, Roosevelt's alphabet agencies taking over the economy and wartime demands which accustomed people to a large, intrusive government that would, in theory, protect your money and help provide for your old age.

Ike was the closest thing to a laissez-faire prexy since Coolidge, but there was never going to be any political appetite or will to roll back the New Deal.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

157 151 Every poll in the past 3 years has shown support for Israel plummeting. Especially among the yuuuuuthes.

Tucker et al are a reflection of this. Call them Nazis until you’re blue in the face it’s not going to change anything.
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I told you guys, years ago, to wear berets. But you ignored me and here we are.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (pLaQB)

158 123 Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians

https://is.gd/XYi2TH
-
'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
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Have yourself ...
A furry little Christmas
Posted by: ShainS

I'm shocked it isn’t Connecticut's Hopeville Church. This one picture from the inside will blow your mind lol
https://shorturl.at/6qMIw

Their website address is https://hopeville.church/
I...didn't know you could have an address that doesn't end with a period and three characters, but it seems to ~~woke~~ work.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (ycI94)

159 I love troll haikus.

dumb troll speaks
cob raises fist
burnt troll smell

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (3uBP9)

160 One of the six or so resident attention whores here is a broken record on the Fuentes/Shaprio/Owens/Carlson thing.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)

161 Add in regulatory codices

A fish in your pants?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM

A codpiece is a piece of cod.

A codice is a frozen cod.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (0sNs1)

162 145 Merry Christmas to all Frank Zappa fans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIV69pq_Tw
Posted by: Duncanthrax

First time I've ever uptwinkled one of your posts!

Posted by: Penguin Pete at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (oftw2)

163 I dunno but ...could Its Go Time get the ASS treatment maybe?

just super tiresome mobying

for Christmas? would be a lovely present!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (emBoF)

164 Eisenhower was the first to hire Madison avenue advertising to craft a modern style political campaign.

The popular image of course is a nice, grandfatherly figure. FDR, Marshall, Bradley, and Ike abandoned millions behind the Iron Curtain, sent back thousands of refugees back to the Soviet Union to certain death. All in efforts to appease “Uncle Joe” Stalin. They wanted assurances he would invade Japan. Approx 20k American POWs held by the Soviets were never heard from again. “They just write it off, Jerry” applied to troops.

They could have ended the war in Europe 6 months earlier, but instead they let the Soviets take Berlin, which was surrounded by Soviet controlled territory. “Cold War” resulted in millions of deaths. China went communist. Korean invasion. Hungary, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Viet Nam, etc.

They “liberated” Europe from one dictator and let a worse one take over, and spent another 50 years fighting that. How stupid is that?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (hlNSv)

165 How you?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

OK. Having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year. Too many people I know are battling major health problems. Our neighbor lady and former babysitter died of colon cancer right before Thanksgiving. We went to her memorial service on Saturday. Several other people I know have cancer, and my wife's brother's wife is in a memory-care unit with early-onset dementia.

All I have is trust in the Lord at this point. I'm not very good at praying, but I'm trying to do more of it. Practice makes perfect. There's certainly enough to pray about.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

166 considers mentioning Prometheus *

PROMETHIUS and BOOBS

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (Kt19C)

167 Googley-eyed NutCasesTM works for me.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:32 AM (xG4kz)

--------------

* Brings back fond memories of the character Grady on Sanford & Son *

"Good goobily goop!" and "Great googly moogly!"

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (LgsNJ)

168
Sponge is right.

Sponge,

Merry Christmas and I hope you soak up tons of Christmas joy.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (3ek7K)

169
It'd take 5 years to design, another 5 of redesign, and a decade to build the first one. Presuming it isn't canceled by the Democrats before it sees the light of day.

Shipbuilding in the US sucks. Unless we're talking submarines or, maybe, aircraft carriers.

There's part of me that wishes the Trump class would just be a mass of guns and missiles. A VLS for Tomahawk cruise missiles, about 6 CWIS and a shitload of 5"/54 guns for shore bombardment, at least 20. It'd be like shooting a gigantic, full-auto Carl Gustav. The only problem would be keeping enough ammo in the magazines to fight anything more than a short engagement.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (y9nCu)

170 Every poll in the past 3 years has shown support for Israel plummeting. Especially among the yuuuuuthes.

Tucker et al are a reflection of this. Call them Nazis until you’re blue in the face it’s not going to change anything.
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Nope, just more bullshit from you. 87% of those surveyed at TPUSA counted Israel as the prime ally of the US or a key ally of the US--I saw the article earlier today. If you are in love with Nick, you're not in love with conservatism--he's an anti-semitic prick who isn't part of the "right" or conservatism.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

171 Hunter Biden... broke? How can that be? I thought he was a celebrated artist whose paintings sold for six figures, as well an in-demand executive consultant for multinational corporations.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (f0sNM)

172 >>>Congress not being that productive doesn't bother me that much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO
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If congress has the power to de-throne judges and they are not in the process of doing so that is a problem.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (Mis34)

173 One of the six or so resident attention whores here is a broken record on the Fuentes/Shaprio/Owens/Carlson thing.

What's the difference between a troll and an attention whore? Discuss.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

174 Mmm, that's cuz they are running slaves.
Posted by: Pudinhead

A question I've been pondering for years without satisfactory result. In Dylan's song Tangled Up In Blue, a song clearly set in contemporary America, he describes his chick's boyfriend.

Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside

So what the hell is he talking about?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

175 A codpiece is a piece of cod.

A codice is a frozen cod.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

On a good sized cod, the sweetest, white meat is a chunk in the skull between the eyes. Rivals lobster in taste.

Posted by: Norseman at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (oftw2)

176
Hunter Biden is a timeline hopper, his special power as an eternal consumer of banned substances.

Ask him right now where he is and it is likely that he'll reply, "Riding shotgun for the Voyagers satellites -- both of them."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (xG4kz)

177 I don't care. He's a piece of shit sellout shill in place to splinter the right in an effort to "get Trump."

—

Or maybe he’s pointing out how Trump has not done much of what he said he’d do.

End Ukraine war on day 1? Remember that.

Mass deportations. Remember that? No 300k a year is not mass deportations.

No more wars? Venezuela says hi. Iran bombing says hi.

600k Chinese students. Is that America First?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (UJWr0)

178 There are not enough countries to conquer and too many Dr. No's, and Goldfingers.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (EyfuW)

179 I think hunter has been emmiserated by the Trump admin blowing drug ships out of the water

coke is pricey!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (emBoF)

180 ... NEW: Hunter Biden Now Says His ‘Laptop From Hell’ Was Fabricated
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
++++
LOL K.

My email has about 25k messages and consumes about three gigs of space. It is not media rich, but still. Not much. Quintuple each value to 125k messages and 75 gigs and you're still in thumb drive territory, not datacenter territory. Quintuple it all again to 625k messages and 375 gigs and you're still well inside "modern hard drive" territory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (avHHk)

181 [Sponge,

Merry Christmas and I hope you soak up tons of Christmas joy.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (3ek7K)

Thank you so very much. I'm trying. I'm much less bah humbug this year, for some reason.

I'm praying for 2026 to stop kicking my ass the way the past couple of years have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

182 preach it, Mis Hum...Merry Christmas to you and the Fabulous and your family

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (cCn4/)

183 They “liberated” Europe from one dictator and let a worse one take over, and spent another 50 years fighting that. How stupid is that?

*raise hands*

Posted by: Millions of GIs who want to go home, and certainly don't want another war with the USSR at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

184 The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (VE6XX)

185 My email has about 25k messages and consumes about three gigs of space. It is not media rich, but still. Not much. Quintuple each value to 125k messages and 75 gigs and you're still in thumb drive territory, not datacenter territory. Quintuple it all again to 625k messages and 375 gigs and you're still well inside "modern hard drive" territory.

right bc you just KNOW Hunter was super on top of clearing out computer files!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (emBoF)

186 14 Ben Sasse announced he is dying. Pancreatic cancer. Was a senator from Nebraska but retired a few years ago.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM

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He voted to impeach Trump. He has to answer for that.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (IifOV)

187 Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians

https://is.gd/XYi2TH
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'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
++++
At what point - if any - do you realize that you're in a Satanist church rather than a Christian one?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (avHHk)

188 Eisenhower was the first to hire Madison avenue advertising to craft a modern style political campaign.

YouTube has a few of the "Eisenhower Speaks To The Nation" commercials. They're quite interesting to watch.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (ufSfZ)

189
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside

So what the hell is he talking about?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

He anticipated, by several decades, Tucker C and his Qatar connection (first two lines) and Candace O and her JOOOOOOS!!!! connection (last two lines).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (xG4kz)

190 I'm praying for 2026 to stop kicking my ass the way the past couple of years have.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

You'll always be FIRST!! in our hearts!!

Posted by: Old Yeller!! at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (oftw2)

191 The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system
Posted by: It's me donna

Absolutely.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

192 184 The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system
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Operation Wet Back was a very good move.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (pLaQB)

193 187 At what point - if any - do you realize that you're in a Satanist church rather than a Christian one?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (avHHk)

======

I believe the proper Protestant thing to do is to just stop going and start another church until you do something that pisses off someone in the new congregation who then split off into a new church...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

194 174-pimp

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (cS1cw)

195 Is that America First?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (UJWr0)

Ah, so you ARE a never Trumper.

Good to know. Trump has done more for this country than any president in my lifetime. But you just keep swallowing Fuentes's excretion and spewing your "Trump isn't America First" bullshit.

I won't be reading it anymore. You've seriously worn out your welcome.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

196
Sponge,

I'm rooting for you all.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (3ek7K)

197 So what the hell is he talking about?

Isn't that the story of any Dylan song?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (ufSfZ)

198 The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system
Posted by: It's me donna

Absolutely.

One could argue it was "avoided nuclear Armageddon".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

199 You'll always be FIRST!! in our hearts!!
Posted by: Old Yeller!!

Hold up now...who's first?

Posted by: America at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (ycI94)

200 "Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians "

The angry lesbians never try to disparage Ramadan, I've noticed.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (f0sNM)

201 199 You'll always be FIRST!! in our hearts!!
Posted by: Old Yeller!!

Hold up now...who's first?

Posted by: America at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (ycI94)

=====

Wakanda's first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

202 >>>he best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system

Agreed.

Posted by: See Rock City barns at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (Y1sOo)

203 just more bullshit from you. 87% of those surveyed at TPUSA counted Israel as the prime ally
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87%? Yeah, no.

“On Israel, 53.4% of respondents said they saw Israel “as one ally out of many” and about a third called Israel Americas “top ally”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (UJWr0)

204
I'd like unlimited ice cream and a pony but even I'm mature enough not to expect them. I'm not indulging in fault judging Trump. Are there things I wish he'd do? Sure, but who else would do a tenth of what he's done so far? By my standard for a president, I'm not withholding ribbons; Trump is Best in Show at Westminster.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (tgvbd)

205 >>> “There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."

sure bob
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF)

Ha ha, who said that! Before workplaces started stifling my creativity I would have multimillion email collection. I'm sure there were whole IT branches formed to try to stop me. And then when they started stupid auto delete, which is being done for legal purposes, not space, I found ways around that.

I have no brain memory. I'm lucky to remember what I did this morning let alone years ago. Email is my memory. And someone will always come at me with some report I wrote and why did I do this or that and I smack them right in the face with, SEE RIGHT HERE ON THIS DATE YOU TOLD ME TO, HA! IN YOUR FACE. They love that and find it very informative. So thousands? pffft!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (3uBP9)

206 right bc you just KNOW Hunter was super on top of clearing out computer files!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (emBoF)
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Exactly the point. Even with little to no management, hard drives are *big* and have been for a long time. A terabyte is a lot of data unless you're accumulating a lot of video or very high-resolution images. It takes a whole lot of text and pictures to fill up your average laptop.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (avHHk)

207 Eisenhower's best achievement was shooting 3 under par that one time in 1957.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

208 Hunter, broke is when the flop house manager is knocking on the door, telling you to pack your trash and get out. Broke is when you've sat at the day labor place for three days and can't get sent out. Or, in your case, broke is when one of your sleazy friends can only put you up on the yacht because staying at the estate might cause people to talk. Don't worry, look for the can in the galley that says "Mother's Baking Powder".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (gm9Sb)

209 151 Every poll in the past 3 years has shown support for Israel plummeting. Especially among the yuuuuuthes.
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Every poll is weighted Democrat.
Every poll is a push poll.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:43 AM (Mis34)

210 198 The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system
Posted by: It's me donna

Bullcrap! It ruined me!

Posted by: Route 66-No Kicks at December 23, 2025 11:43 AM (oftw2)

211 Sponge,

I'm rooting for you all.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (3ek7K)

We are forever indebted to you. Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

212 OK, folks, day is over for me.

Talk to you all tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (ufSfZ)

213 Sharper than a serpent's tooth!

In Stunning Interview, Hunter Biden Rips Dad Joe’s Presidency Over Immigration and Afghanistan: “Obvious F–Ing Failure”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (L/fGl)

214
Hadrian,

Amen!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (3ek7K)

215
NEW: Hunter Biden Now Says His ‘Laptop From Hell’ Was Fabricated
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

Perhaps "Doctor" Jill can no longer satisfy his ravenous sexual drive (which may or may not be hard).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (xG4kz)

216 Ah, so you ARE a never Trumper.
—

Ahh yes the binary position of either you’re 100000% for Trump or you love Kamala.

Answer the question please: is 600k Chinese students America first?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)

217 Ike was a three pack a day smoker. Pretty amazing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (pLaQB)

218 Talk to you all tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

See you tomorrow, Sir. I hope you have a great rest of the day.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

219 just more bullshit from you. 87% of those surveyed at TPUSA counted Israel as the prime ally
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87%? Yeah, no.

“On Israel, 53.4% of respondents said they saw Israel “as one ally out of many” and about a third called Israel Americas “top ally”.
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Ok, show us all that you can do math--add 53.4% to 33.3% and tell the class what you came up with?

I'll put it bluntly--you're an antisemitic prick if you think anything about Nick Fuentes is worth mentioning.

Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (TN0g+)

220 The old "Bay Bridge" in Northern Ca was built to withstand tanks rolling across it for defense.

Scrap steel went to China I think when they demo-ed it.

New bridge has issues already.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (cS1cw)

221 This busty, bespectacled blonde thinks "the Laptop was Russian disinformation" was somehow more credible than "there is no Laptop":
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (avHHk)

222
Remember when the Hunt brothers were running up the price of silver in the early 80's? I remember my dad dumping a bunch of silver before it tanked. He bought a new Datsun/Nissan.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (IifOV)

223 1964 two investments: $1.40 consisting of 4 quarters and 4 dimes. OR $1.40 consisting of a dollar bill and 8 nickles. In 2025 that first investment is worth > $70 while the second won't buy a coke at a filling station.

Cash depreciates, while silver and gold appreciate. Your choice which one you want.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (Da7Vv)

224 $2.67 gas! The cheapest gas around here (and we have to drive to the next town over to get it) is $3.89. I can't remember when gas dropped below three bucks. But at least it's down from nearly five bucks per, so I'll take it. I don't like to think what's going to happen when the gas refineries shut down. The Valero refinery in Benicia CA is the biggest employer in town; they don't just supply gas, they also refine jet fuel and have a direct pipeline out to Travis AFB. What that's going to do to national defense on the West Coast, I don't know.

Posted by: tankascribe at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (NtoJk)

225
I must be a weirdo. I don't have the patience to listen to more than two minutes of a podcast.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (tgvbd)

226 This busty, bespectacled blonde thinks "the Laptop was Russian disinformation" was somehow more credible than "there is no Laptop":
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Busty and bespectacled is a great combination.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)

227 Perhaps "Doctor" Jill can no longer satisfy his ravenous sexual drive (which may or may not be hard).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM

Osteoperosis makes Jills Hips not so movable. Hunter got the sadz.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (IifOV)

228 >>>But whatever it is called, I want to be part of the Never-NutCases.

Righteous rant, Mis Hum. Thanks.

We miss you around here. I hope all is well with you and yours, and we wish you and yours a Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (dK+Kv)

229 Posted by: Duncanthrax

First time I've ever uptwinkled one of your posts!
Posted by: Penguin Pete at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM

Odd. We find many of his posts worthy of uptwinkles.

Posted by: Leopard Seals at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (istnK)

230
Answer the question please: is 600k Chinese students America first?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)

They're not doing that. And I didn't say you were a Kumswala fan, now did I.

Seacrest Out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Trump gets a B from me. He’s done a few good things. Shutting the border. Awesome. Making somewhat of an attempt to deport people. I’m in favor of the tariffs.

What I’m Not too crazy about is Venezuela and Iran. 600k Chinese students. The comments he made about the need for H1Bs. And the fact Ukraine is still a thing and we’re still sending money there to be stolen by Zelensky.

I guess that makes me a never Trumper huh? lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:48 AM (UJWr0)

232
Scrap steel went to China I think when they demo-ed it.

___________

We sent scrap to the Japanese before WWII and they eventually shot it back at us.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (tgvbd)

233 [snip]

They “liberated” Europe from one dictator and let a worse one take over, and spent another 50 years fighting that. How stupid is that?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (hlNSv)

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If the Soviets hadn't murdered (poisoned in his hospital room after a "car accident"?) General George Patton ...

We need an alternate history series in which Patton, not Eisenhower, becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II, subsequently pushes Soviet forces back and liberates countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and East Germany from Soviet control, and ultimately becomes the 34th POTUS.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (LgsNJ)

234 I must be a weirdo. I don't have the patience to listen to more than two minutes of a podcast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You're not alone. I've never even listened to the one allegedly on this blog.

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (oftw2)

235 Ok, show us all that you can do math--add 53.4% to 33.3% and tell the class what you came up with?

—

Bro!!!!

You said 87% saw Israel as a prime ally. 33% is prime ally. 53% is one of many allies. Can you not distinguish between the two?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (UJWr0)

236
IGTD,

Run for President.

I'm sure you will solve all our problems on Inauguration day.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:50 AM (3ek7K)

237 @60/TheJamesMadison: "Doing this while facing a writ of mandamus is ballsy."

Ballsy alright. Stupid, but ballsy.

Posted by: Ford Prefect at December 23, 2025 11:50 AM (O7YUW)

238 Off HHTttG sock.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 11:50 AM (O7YUW)

239
Eisenhower was the first to hire Madison avenue advertising to craft a modern style political campaign.

The only Happy Days episode that replays in my head is when Ritchie Cunningham gets all depressed because he campaigns for Adlai Stevenson and Ike kicks his ass. THAT'S when Happy Days really jumped the shark

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 11:51 AM (y9nCu)

240 Eisenhower's best achievement

Didn't he hook Nixon fishing?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (Kt19C)

241
I wish I could post photos here - I'd post a picture of the $1.99 gas at the pump I just got this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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"This is only happening because no one is buying gas."
-troll, soon
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Gonna do my part this weekend, it'll take about 40 gallons to make the round trip to visit Mom for a turn-n-burn health and welfare check. I'd fly her here, but she can't get here without going through either ATL or DFW, and she refuses to set foot in either of them.
#SucksToBeTheMiddleKid

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (QVmho)

242
We need an alternate history series in which Patton, not Eisenhower, becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II

____________

Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (tgvbd)

243 >>>Ike was the closest thing to a laissez-faire prexy since Coolidge, but there was never going to be any political appetite or will to roll back the New Deal.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect
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If a child was born in 1925 he was five when Wall St crashed. He was ten at the height of Roosevelt's bs.
From awareness to adulthood he grew up in the shadow of FDR's government.

That was his world. He knew nothing else.

Erase history. Write the new history.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (Mis34)

244 Vance explains something in plain English.

Vice President JD Vance is not mincing his words, telling the news outlet UnHerd during an interview that those who attack his wife Usha "can eat s---."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)

245 President Donald Trump on Monday defended his administration’s plan to offer 600,000 visas to Chinese students — a move that has drawn criticism from within conservative circles.

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham pressed Trump during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning how the proposal was "pro-MAGA" if it crowded out spots for American students and whether universities were "getting rich" from Chinese money.

Trump argued that foreign students — particularly from China — are vital to keeping U.S. universities financially stable, adding that cutting the number of Chinese students in half would cripple the system.

—

As America First as it gets.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:53 AM (UJWr0)

246 nice to see you, Mis Hum

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

247 The only Happy Days episode that replays in my head is when Ritchie Cunningham gets all depressed because he campaigns for Adlai Stevenson and Ike kicks his ass. THAT'S when Happy Days really jumped the shark
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Chuck Cunningham campaigned for Gus Hall, which is why he was sent off to Siberia.

Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (oftw2)

248
Scrap steel went to China I think when they demo-ed it.

We sent scrap to the Japanese before WWII and they eventually shot it back at us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As was narrated by e e cummings in his poem, "Told Him":

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/
ee-cummings-told-him

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (xG4kz)

249 1964 two investments: $1.40 consisting of 4 quarters and 4 dimes.

Looking back on things, I wish I had invested in a mutual fund which held shares in all 100 US Senators.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (6LzyB)

250
The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system

Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 11:55 AM (pkeXY)

251 The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system
Posted by: It's me donna

Bullcrap! It ruined me!
Posted by: Route 66-No Kicks at December 23, 2025 11:43 AM (oftw2)

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I think he did it to be able to move military equipment efficiently into and across the country.

Unintended Consequences? YUGE Blue Shithole Cities.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:55 AM (LgsNJ)

252 the need for H1Bs

Those rockets hitler shot at London?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:55 AM (Kt19C)

253 And I expect many of the nut cases are literally being paid to divide the Right. I'd bet body parts that tiny, gay Nick is, for one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (xcxpd)

254 As such, and since the young white straight male has been called a Nazi for their entire lifetimes they are taking the label and running with it.
-------

I'm pretty sure that's not how that works. I guess they should be happy no one has called them fags.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (oHAzj)

255 Trump argued that foreign students — particularly from China — are vital to keeping U.S. universities financially stable, adding that cutting the number of Chinese students in half would cripple the system.

So, he is actually making our argument for us. Cripple away!

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (6LzyB)

256 And lastly to the Nut-Cases, shut your mouths. Take your fingers away from your key boards. And take some time to read and comprehend President Reagan's 11th Commandment. Take your problems behind closed doors.

And I refuse to get sucked into the MSM description of how MAGA has fractured. Tempest in a teapot.
Once President Trump hits the road, these clowns will either toe the line of find themselves in the dustbin of history.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (2WIwB)

257 She thinks God date raped Mary.

If you read that in a story, the first thing you think may be lesbians

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (EyfuW)

258 ____________

Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Patton was not sent home because he got the job done.
If so ordered he would have taken Russia.
Ike did the job he was ordered to do, as Patton, better than any other.
There was much interference between what Eisenhower wanted and what he wanted to do just as there was for Patton. But Eisenhower was the better negotiator. Patton negotiated himself out of a job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (Mis34)

259 The Q3 GDP sprung to 4.3%. Up from the Q2 3.8%. Pretty hot stuff.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (3uBP9)

260 Looking back on things, I wish I had invested in a mutual fund which held shares in all 100 US Senators.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (6LzyB)

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There is an investment fund that follows the stock trades of Democratic members of Congress, named in reference to Nancy Pelosi. The Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (ticker: NANC) was launched in February 2023 and tracks publicly disclosed trades made by Democratic lawmakers, not just Pelosi alone.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (LgsNJ)

261 245 President Donald Trump on Monday defended his administration’s plan to offer 600,000 visas to Chinese students — a move that has drawn criticism from within conservative circles.

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham pressed Trump during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning how the proposal was "pro-MAGA" if it crowded out spots for American students and whether universities were "getting rich" from Chinese money.

Trump argued that foreign students — particularly from China — are vital to keeping U.S. universities financially stable, adding that cutting the number of Chinese students in half would cripple the system.

—

As America First as it gets.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:53 AM (UJWr0)

Simple answer is to ensure that any university that admits a Chinese student has to offer admission to all Americans that applied as well - they don't have to offer them money, but they do have to offer them a spot...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (tOcjL)

262 I guess that makes me a never Trumper huh? lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:48 AM (UJWr0)

Not a Never-Trumper, just an Always Asshole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (npFr7)

263 1964 two investments: $1.40 consisting of 4 quarters and 4 dimes. OR $1.40 consisting of a dollar bill and 8 nickles.
——

Minor quibble. That’s not investing, that’s currency speculation. An investment by definition is something other than money, expected or hoped to provide a return. Stocks of course, rental income.

Paper currencies are not ordinarily a wise way to hold wealth. The US dollar has been better than most.

Note the government reneged on gold bonds paying interest, and made holding gold illegal. Only two other countries ever outlawed gold. Take a guess who they were?

Greenspan, before he went over to the dark side, wrote an excellent treatise in 1966 entitled “Gold and Economic Freedom”. In short, in the absence of a monetary standard, it is impossible for anyone to protect their wealth. As we are witnessing now.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (hlNSv)

264
The Q3 GDP sprung to 4.3%. Up from the Q2 3.8%. Pretty hot stuff.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (3uBP9)

__________

The Looming Spectre of Inflation! Overheated economy!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (tgvbd)

265 242
We need an alternate history series in which Patton, not Eisenhower, becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II

____________

Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (tgvbd)

Practically true. But Patton would have done a damn good job at the soldiering part. And he was a better diplomat than most give him credit for.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (xcxpd)

266 False, the economy can't grow if we're deporting people and if no one is buying anything and if government jobs are being slashed.

It's literally impossible.

Trump should be impeached for GDP growth while destroying the American economy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)
====================
Yes!!

Posted by: Eric Swallwell at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (GJXh3)

267 Greta is in the Pokey.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (5DEFi)

268 Not a Never-Trumper, just an Always Asshole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (npFr7)

He's also a troll

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

269 And I refuse to get sucked into the MSM description of how MAGA has fractured. Tempest in a teapot.
Once President Trump hits the road, these clowns will either toe the line of find themselves in the dustbin of history.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Concur. Great expectations of a superior House and better Senate after the election. I do think he shit on my girl Stefanik.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (Mis34)

270 So we have high growth and low inflation. Pretty good. You can't undo the leftist controlled implosion. But every little bit helps the future.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (3uBP9)

271 "But, nature hates a vacuum and now we have Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro to name just a few who have replaced the Never-Trumpers. I'm not sure what we should call this group, perhaps NutCases."

They are whores who say what they say for likes, clicks, and money. They have no convictions. They go where the money is. Hell, Tucker ain't even trying to hide that he's bought and paid for by Qatar. CO hopes to one day be that bought.

I don't pay attention to any of them. The more anyone talks about them -- even if it's to say "oh no she didn't!" -- is giving them what they want. In their world, there ain't so such thing as bad publicity.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

272 And I expect many of the nut cases are literally being paid to divide the Right. I'd bet body parts that tiny, gay Nick is, for one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (xcxpd)

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Allegations that Tucker Carlson is being funded by Qatar stem from Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings revealing that the Qatari government hired the firm Lumen8 Advisors for $180,000 per month to conduct public relations, including arranging an interview between Carlson and Qatar’s Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, on the topic of a potential war with Iran.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (LgsNJ)

273 Are they gonna raise interest rates?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (5DEFi)

274 Revert the filibuster.

Just as you do not call a man who puts balloons in their shirt a woman, and just as you do not call a deer a horse, you should not call the blue slip a filibuster.

Make these tyranical geezers take the floor and talk and actually filibuster. They certainly like to talk when cameras are around. With the different CSPAN channels, they've got an audience. No

The filibuster was a time-honored tradition, not a procedural hurdle to move the goalposts. If you feel strongly that an invader from Germany (at least the last stop prior to a 1st class flight to the USA) should be free to stab old ladies in the eye and young ladies in the *****, then stand up and speak out. And do it for hours, so you can change the hearts and minds of other congresscritters so that, they too, will want to stab women young and old.

Or, maybe just reevaluate your life decisions. Maybe even retire from the Senate.

But make the filibuster a filibuster. They want to halt progress on a bill or an appointment, make them work for it. And that goes for ALL, regardless if they're on the right, the left, or dangling off the left cliff.

Posted by: Another Anon at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (4h45B)

275 "I guess that makes me a never Trumper huh? lol."

More of a Malorian I think. Malorted?

Grew up with a guy who's last name became synonimous with failure. I could conjugate it right now from memory.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (cS1cw)

276 Every poll in the past 3 years has shown support for Israel plummeting. Especially among the yuuuuuthes.
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Imagine the intense propaganda effort it takes to get people to side against a flawed pluralistic democracy in favor of a totalitarian theological death cult.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (f0sNM)

277 Trump argued that foreign students — particularly from China — are vital to keeping U.S. universities financially stable, adding that cutting the number of Chinese students in half would cripple the system.

The CCP must really have the US over a barrel if Trump is surrendering our university developed tech underwritten by the tax payer to our mortal enemy.

Given the absolute slop that is the main product of non STEM Us Universities, I would argue that the system is already crippled and crushing it under financial losses (WTF happen to the half trillion in aggregate university endowment money) would be in this nation's best interests.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (nCgQz)

278 225
I must be a weirdo. I don't have the patience to listen to more than two minutes of a podcast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If that's the definition, then I'm also a weirdo. No patience for them.

Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (2bFN5)

279 267 Greta is in the Pokey.

I'm pretty sure nobody wants to pokey Greta.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

280 Grew up with a guy who's last name became synonimous with failure. I could conjugate it right now from memory.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (cS1cw)

Joe Webber in my home town.
Never knew the kid but his name was a pejorative.

I wonder what the story was there?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

281 Drive the Pollacks into the sea.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (5DEFi)

282 Greta is in the Pokey.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (5DEFi)

A good poking might tune her up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (npFr7)

283 Sheesh! Silver @ $70.80. Crazy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (BI5O2)

284 This busty, bespectacled blonde thinks "the Laptop was Russian disinformation" was somehow more credible than "there is no Laptop":
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Busty and bespectacled is a great combination.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)
______

I suspect the glasses are CGI, but ... she's very nice and juicy. TBWB.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

285 I'm pretty sure nobody wants to pokey Greta.
Posted by: Archimedes

There is at least one dude out there who would look at her and says "I will smash that like an angry god."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 12:03 PM (lXoJ5)

286 Bravo!

That is a right proper rant!

Posted by: Billy Silly at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (Vu7A1)

287 The idea that we should've invaded Eastern Europe and the USSR after Hitler is nuts. The US was sick of war and there would've been too much ground to cover.

We were still fighting Japan at the time. Had we invaded, Stalin would have just thrown in his lot with the Japanese, possibly making the Pacific War unwinnable.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ)

288 LOL, Roy Munson in Kingpin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)

289 If the universities close, what basements will the homeless reside in?

Posted by: Crawl Space Carl at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (oftw2)

290 A good poking might tune her up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM

Have her call me.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (0sNs1)

291 This busty, bespectacled blonde thinks "the Laptop was Russian disinformation" was somehow more credible than "there is no Laptop":
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

That is a FINE body

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

292 >>> I must be a weirdo. I don't have the patience to listen to more than two minutes of a podcast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If that's the definition, then I'm also a weirdo. No patience for them.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (2bFN5)

The old AoS podcasts were actually kind of good. And there was a very old, like the dawn of the internet podcast called Tiki Bar TV that was very good. Just about alcohol, making mixed drink, and a very very cute Lala. They were all drunk out of their gourds. I loved it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (3uBP9)

293 All I have is trust in the Lord at this point. I'm not very good at praying, but I'm trying to do more of it. Practice makes perfect. There's certainly enough to pray about.
Posted by: Bulg
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Right there with you. The Golden Years have not lived up to their promise. Putting aside my own, I am surrounded by people with troubles. It's an every-waking-moment situation. My thoughts and prayers will be with you, as with others here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

294 'm pretty sure nobody wants to pokey Greta.
Posted by: Archimedes

There is at least one dude out there who would look at her and says "I will smash that like an angry god."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 12:03 PM (lXoJ5)
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"I will smash that like an angry god"

-- Louis Braille

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

295 I will occasionally watch podcasts with my wife on YouTube. But listen to them only? Not a chance.

It's not like they're freaking classical music or anything.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

296 This busty, bespectacled blonde

Not pictured: Greta

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (6LzyB)

297 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

Thank you, Mike.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

298 This busty, bespectacled blonde thinks "the Laptop was Russian disinformation" was somehow more credible than "there is no Laptop":
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Busty and bespectacled is a great combination.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)
______

I suspect the glasses are CGI, but ... she's very nice and juicy. TBWB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

***

Bespectacled, beauty, bewbs and the ability to think. Dang! I think I'll tell Mrs D I'm going out to get some bread.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (2WIwB)

299 It's pathological is what it is. (Insty)

IT’S COME TO THIS: Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu Says Somalis To Thank For City’s ‘Every Achievement.’

Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.

I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor.
-Nick Freitas

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

300 right on cue our favorite "judge" Boasberg has ordered Trump to return 100 Venezuelan gang members back from El Salvador by Jan 5th...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

How is this even remotely a thing? A judge is now ordering other countries around?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (UJWr0)

Tell him to STFD and STFU. Period. Enough of his crap.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (5xuJ/)

301 I don't pay attention to any of them. The more anyone talks about them -- even if it's to say "oh no she didn't!" -- is giving them what they want. In their world, there ain't so such thing as bad publicity.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Let's go see the freak show.
What's it all about?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Mis34)

302 I'm going out to get some bread.
Posted by: Diogenes

So, that's what the kids are calling it now.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

303 Yeah, they should have nuked the Kremlin with bomb #4 and as many more as it took. Saved the world a whole lot of trouble.

The big fiction is that the Soviets were ever “allies”, the whole thing was a colossal waste. 1914 thru 1945, and look at Europe today. They had a 4 year window before the Soviets got their own bomb. Totalitarian governments slaughtered maybe 100 million trying various Utopian schemes from Russia to Germany to Cambodia to Chinw, and that’s not even counting the wars.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (hlNSv)

304
Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (tgvbd)

I have mixed feelings about Patton. As much as I agree with him in regards to the commie cocksuckers, his rep for battlefield aggressiveness and the offensive is based on the fact that he wasn't facing German heavy tank formations like the Limeys were. He ran rampant right up until he hit the prepared fortifications at Metz, where the Germans stopped him cold. After that, he had to slowly grind his way through.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (y9nCu)

305
Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.

I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor.
-Nick Freitas
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

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Throwing Somalis into the harbor may be the best way they can contribute to the city.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (2WIwB)

306 Go get fucked. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (5DEFi)

307 I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor.
-Nick Freitas
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

Without Somalis, the Bruins would never have won the Super Bowl!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (npFr7)

308

Indiana has earned national recognition as the first-ever “State of the Year,” the Washington Post Editorial Board said, citing policies and decisions it called worthy of emulation in 2025.

The Post highlighted Indiana’s redistricting fight, where 21 Republican senators resisted months of pressure from the Trump White House and Gov. Mike Braun to redraw congressional maps, a move the board says could influence other states.

New Hampshire and California were runners-up. New Hampshire eased housing pressures and expanded education savings accounts. California got credit for housing and infrastructure but was criticized for mid-decade redistricting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (pkeXY)

309 Ben Sasse has terminal pancreatic cancer. A lot of that going around

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (2vrAX)

310 Yeah, they should have nuked the Kremlin with bomb #4 and as many more as it took. Saved the world a whole lot of trouble.

The big fiction is that the Soviets were ever “allies”, the whole thing was a colossal waste. 1914 thru 1945, and look at Europe today. They had a 4 year window before the Soviets got their own bomb. Totalitarian governments slaughtered maybe 100 million trying various Utopian schemes from Russia to Germany to Cambodia to Chinw, and that’s not even counting the wars.

You should build a time machine, go back in time, and tell all those GIs that they're a bunch of pussies.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

311 Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.

I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor.
-Nick Freitas
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

***

Throwing Somalis into the harbor may be the best way they can contribute to the city.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (2WIwB)
__________

You really wanna poison the harbor and all the fish like that? You're a bad person.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

312 278 225
I must be a weirdo. I don't have the patience to listen to more than two minutes of a podcast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If that's the definition, then I'm also a weirdo. No patience for them.
Posted by: scampydog
------------

High value podcasts (VDH) are OK.
Especially on the road.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:10 PM (Mis34)

313 311 Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.

Somalis ? What am I missing here ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

314 I usually just listen to podcasts videos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (5DEFi)

315 Ben Sasse has terminal pancreatic cancer. A lot of that going around
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (2vrAX)

Another consequence of the clot shot?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (npFr7)

316 Thank you so very much. I'm trying. I'm much less bah humbug this year, for some reason.

I'm praying for 2026 to stop kicking my ass the way the past couple of years have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

You ain't the only one, brother, on either count.

Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (OUMaO)

317 313 311 Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.

Somalis ? What am I missing here ?

A total lack of shame.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

318
Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu Says Somalis To Thank For City’s ‘Every Achievement.’

Squanto? Somalian! (yeah, yeah, Plymouth, not Boston)

Crispus Attucks? Somalian!

Emily Dickenson? Somalian!

Joseph Kennedy, Sr? Somalian!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (xG4kz)

319 313 311 Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.

Somalis ? What am I missing here ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

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Most likely:

Somali fraud in Boston has exploded and Wu has no desire to tamp down on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

320
Somalis ? What am I missing here ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)/i]

Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.

Somali's haven't done anything for SOMALIA. They DAMN sure haven't done a f*cking thing for America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

321 Expecting a Gen Z or Gen Alpha to have an emotional reaction to the Holocaust or WW2 is like expecting a Boomer to have an emotional reaction to the Maine, or the Civil War.

You left put the Spanish American War
- Eromero, boomer with emotional reaction (connection really) to WW II and the Holocaust.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (LHPAg)

322 nood

boom

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (3uBP9)

323
You ain't the only one, brother, on either count.

Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (OUMaO)/i]

Same to you, sir.

I hope you have a great time with friends and family and may 2026 be a prosperous and healthy one for us all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

324 Most likely:

Somali fraud in Boston has exploded and Wu has no desire to tamp down on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

AS long as she gets her ten percent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (npFr7)

325 And I refuse to get sucked into the MSM description of how MAGA has fractured. Tempest in a teapot.
Once President Trump hits the road, these clowns will either toe the line of find themselves in the dustbin of history.

Posted by: Diogenes

I think this whole Carlson / Levin / Owens / Shapiro slap fight is all about ratings and engagements. Just like Rush Limbaugh and the CNN / MSNBC mutual outrage segments were all about boosting each other's ratings and advert revenue.

The fact that so many here are swept up into this obvious scheme to the amusement of our enemies is an external expression of what Trump literally warned us about:

"You will get tired of all the Winning."

Indeed, many here have.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (NzX/y)

326 [[[[[]]]]]]

Damn keyboard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

327 also

nood

burnin' skull

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (3uBP9)

328 Flaming nood!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (luW68)

329 I get the need to focus on the U.S. and take a long, hard look at foreign aid in general (especially where it is counterproductive to the people of the country in question). With respect to Israel, I would point out that the U.S gets a lot of value out of its aid. For example, the Israelis give us a lot of technology and real-world weapons training, as well as improvements. In addition, Israel provides the U.S. with a lot of intel that would take at least five CIAs to create. And who wants five CIAs?

Posted by: Isophorone at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (IG5iM)

330 184 The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (VE6XX)

and the worst was not dismantling the New Deal when it still could have been scaled back, as there was no more Great Depression.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (0CU3H)

331 Compeltely OT

The NTSB Report has finally been released:

December 24th, 1988: A Bell UH-1 Helicopter operated by the California Air National Guard suffered a loss of control and subsequent impact with terrain.

The cause of the accident was attributed to the pilot's proximity to the associated effects of a shockwave/fireball resulting from a construction zone explosion on the 35th floor of the unfinished Nakatomi Plaza office building in Century City, Los Angeles, California. The ANG pilot of the helicopter and Federal Bureau of Investigation officers Agent Johnson and Special Agent Johnson (no relation) were lost in the accident.

A local witness was quoted, "We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess..."

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (2WIwB)

332 I have mixed feelings about Patton.

-
He was the right man in the right place at the right time and then he died at the right time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

333 Throwing Somalis into the harbor may be the best way they can contribute to the city.

If "Harbor" is a brand name of tree-chipper, than I agree.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (NzX/y)

334 Flaming skull up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (lEejK)

335 Somalis ? What am I missing here ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Everyone fixates on Larry Bird, but he was nothing without Somalis.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (6LzyB)

336 You should build a time machine, go back in time, and tell all those GIs that they're a bunch of pussies.
——

Sure, Jan. Nice try at deflecting.

The US government fucked up, because FDR had communists in key positions at State, Treasury, etc. It was a fuck up of global proportions and one reason the world is so FUBAR today. FDR thought the Soviets would play nice. How’d that work out?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (hlNSv)

337 Who killed Kirk?

So happens I owned a K-98 re-barreled in .30-06. It could NOT have been taken down and re-assembled the way "the narrative" says. It is a near-certainty that if he assembled that rifle while on the roof, he would have demolished the zero of the scope in the process.

Further: a .30-06 round is NOT stopped by a neck-bone at 200 yards, unless there's a surprise inside the powder-load in the cartridge. So far that has not been revealed.

Please get your gun facts in order before you declare The Narrative to be Gospel.

Posted by: dad29 at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (88RGO)

338 Mighty Joe Young to Globalists Screw You

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 23, 2025 06:41 PM (wGqjj)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Ernesta
Cecilia Beaux

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 Firston Howell III

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 23, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 First on the Eve of Christmas Eve

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 23, 2025 09:30 AM (BHrzb)

3 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:31 AM (R11M+)

4 So close, and yet, so far.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 23, 2025 09:31 AM (BHrzb)

5 She smells wonderful

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 23, 2025 09:31 AM (NwnyJ)

6 The wedding party was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

7 Awwwww, that's precious. Like!

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (ftFVW)

8 Mommy, why are your fingers made out of Vienna Sausages?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

9 She's a cutie.

Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (98kQX)

10 Awwwwwww

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (lEejK)

11 good hands rendered.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

12 Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Creepy Joe at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

13 Not what I was expecting on Festivus.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

14 Looks like the grand. If she'd ever wear clothes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:33 AM (lEejK)

15 some bodacious crinoline.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:33 AM (R11M+)

16 She deserves a prettier name. Not Gertrude or Edwina, either.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (6LzyB)

17 Super darling. Love her.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (eelaG)

18 I don't think she'll do well in The Feats Of Strength.

Posted by: Festivus onlooker at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

19 Adorable

Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)

20 This painting would have importance if it were a little boy.

Posted by: Oscar Wilde at December 23, 2025 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

21 The Met-

Ernesta Drinker, Beaux’s two-year-old niece and favorite model, clutches the hand of her nurse, Mattie, whose figure is boldly cropped at the waist. The radical composition and free brushwork reflect the artist’s appreciation of paintings by Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Moving at her toddler’s pace across a wide expanse of polished floor, Ernesta is also a spiritual descendant of Diego Velázquez’s royal children from the seventeenth century, simultaneously dignified and vulnerable. The nurse’s hand serves as a universal symbol of protection and security, and the large expanse of her apron sets the scale for the child’s diminutive figure.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Cute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

24 I know the Art Thread is consistent in time, but you're still a bunch of no noodin' bastages.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

25 She deserves a prettier name. Not Gertrude or Edwina, either.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (6LzyB)
*****
Bertha?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

26 I always thought this painting was the best John Singer Sargent portrait that was not actually painted by Sargent.

Kind of like Charade is the best Hitchcock thriller not directed by Hitchcock.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 23, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)

27

The little girl is beautiful, but the bisected nanny is more than a little bit odd...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at December 23, 2025 09:36 AM (KrNsD)

28 Awww…

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

29 I'm curious what happened to the lady's hand.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

30 21 man, these people can ruin everything.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)

31 11 good hands rendered.

Fuckin a

Posted by: Allstate at December 23, 2025 09:37 AM (HcoTw)

32 Putting your little kid in a white outfit is a recipe for disaster.

One distracted moment as a parent and she's digging in the dirt, jumping in a muddle puddle or wearing her lunch...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

33 "...her nurse, Mattie, whose figure is boldly cropped at the waist."

WTH?

Posted by: Geez, get over yourself at December 23, 2025 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

34 Lovely painting. Thanks cbd.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 09:38 AM (2NHgQ)

35 I'm curious what happened to the lady's hand.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

She's been through the initiation and is now a Maid Woman.

Posted by: Oscar Wilde at December 23, 2025 09:39 AM (w9Wax)

36 Getting a little kid to wear a hat.... wow.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 09:39 AM (NwnyJ)

37 This is what you call painterly. It’s intended to be viewed from 4 or 5 feet away. When you look at it close you can see the single brushstrokes of color that look like a mess but come together when viewed from a distance. No blending, re-doing paint strokes or outlining.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)

38 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

39 The bisected nanny trick is always a crowd pleaser.

Posted by: Professional magicians everywhere at December 23, 2025 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

40 32 generally, yeah. but ernesta is gonna take extra care today while she lavishes in the attention.
with a modicum of effort she will never pay for anything.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:40 AM (R11M+)

41 Beautiful.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 23, 2025 09:41 AM (6qf1m)

42 ‘Love it! Her hair looks scrumptious!’

—- Joe Biden

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 09:41 AM (FL09G)

43 Sweet.

Thx, CBD

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 09:41 AM (NuV6c)

44 I not familiar with that artist. Thanks. Very sweet painting, and I love the pink hat. Contrast svery nicely with her white dress and dark brown hair.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 09:41 AM (ix8EF)

45 I do like this painting. It is really sweet.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

46 Innocence abound.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

47 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa
Posted by: redridinghood

Beautiful child, beautiful lady.

Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

48 42 something biden something was one of my first thoughts.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (R11M+)

49 *She deserves a prettier name. Not Gertrude or Edwina, either.*

>Ahem

Posted by: Mildred or Ethel at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

50 32 Putting your little kid in a white outfit is a recipe for disaster.
------------------
Treat her to a Bucatini dinner with gravy and get it over with. Then hose her down.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (pLaQB)

51 That's nice and cheerful. Well lit and blocked.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (WPL6O)

52 something biden something was one of my first thoughts.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (R11M+)

"I shit her pants!"

- - - - - - Joe Biden

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

53 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

One thing that always fascinates me is that we live our lives in a slow, sequential fashion, but when you read/look at/watch others from the past its just all there right away. Ernesta is a child, a young woman, and perhaps there is a painting of her as an old woman as well with her own family around her.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 09:43 AM (sKqQm)

54 I missed the Battleship thread.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 09:43 AM (5DEFi)

55 Our nanny sneaked cigarettes and peppermint schnapps into our room for a small fee.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 23, 2025 09:43 AM (WQDw6)

56 Getting a little kid to wear a hat.... wow.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 09:39 AM (NwnyJ)
******
Easier than getting a cat or dog to wear one.
Trust me, I know.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

57 The radical composition and free brushwork

Radical because it's not stiff and posed and 'standard', I guess? She had an excellent eye to pick out this picture. She knew it would work.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:44 AM (6LzyB)

58 Putting your little kid in a white outfit is a recipe for disaster.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

You asked for it.........

https://youtu.be/05lLl_O2n6Q

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

59
Look Ma! No Feet! - a limerick

Ernesta continues to astound
She's learned a new way to get around
We're just now discovering
It looks like she's hovering
Six inches off of the ground

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)

60 She deserves a prettier name. Not Gertrude or Edwina, either.*

>Ahem
Posted by: Mildred or Ethel at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

Hildegard?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2025 09:44 AM (g8Ew8)

61 i like hands that are 15yrs older than kiddos or 15yrs younger than nursy.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:44 AM (R11M+)

62 54 I missed the Battleship thread.
Posted by: Boss Moss

We sunk it.

Posted by: Blow'd Up Real Good at December 23, 2025 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

63 52 won't laugh harder than that today.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:45 AM (R11M+)

64 Getting a little kid to wear a hat.... wow.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 09:39 AM (NwnyJ)

First Daughter did NOT like hair bows. We never bothered with a hat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

65 52 won't laugh harder than that today.
Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:45 AM (R11M+)

You're welcome.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

66 61 i like hands that are 15yrs older than kiddos or 15yrs younger than nursy.
Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:44 AM
+++

She's got man hands.

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at December 23, 2025 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

67 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa
Posted by: redridinghood

What a classy beauty. Makes me forget the Borgnine association I got from her name.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:47 AM (6LzyB)

68 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa
Posted by: redridinghood

Reminds me of some actress.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

69 What a classy beauty. Makes me forget the Borgnine association I got from her name.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:47 AM (6LzyB)

What does a Dutch oven have to do with this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

70 47 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa
Posted by: redridinghood
---

Flashing gang signs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:48 AM (Mis34)

71 Did Ace fix his computer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 09:49 AM (5DEFi)

72 Willowed, but that retarded DEI mayor can speak English. There’s video of him speaking it. The “I need a translator” is a sleazy old trick to deliberately muck up an interview, or to avoid any perjury liability when testifying under oath. This scumbag was surely gonna lie and thus wanted some plausible deniability if any perjury rap came back at him. ‘Perjury? Me? Nah, the question was mistranslated. I was mistranslated. I dindu nuffin.”

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 09:49 AM (FL09G)

73 59 maybe the maids name is molly.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:49 AM (R11M+)

74 She deserves a prettier name. Not Gertrude or Edwina, either.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (6LzyB)

Awww... She's adorable! Maybe people shortened her name to sound prettier. Esta? Nessa? C'mere little girl?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 09:49 AM (2J/Lj)

75 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa
Posted by: redridinghood

Searching for that phrase got me this:

https://is.gd/hIXU03

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

76 *Flashing gang signs.*

She hangs out with the Van Buren boys.

Posted by: Kramer at December 23, 2025 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

77 They must be protected by new battleships.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 09:50 AM (No2xa)

78 62 they sunk my narcoboat!

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:50 AM (R11M+)

79 The Blade is first to violate the 100 comment rule.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

80 If you're gonna take Greenland you're gonna need a Golden Fleet.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 09:51 AM (pLaQB)

81 She ain't too good. You can tell by that twinkle in her eye.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 09:51 AM (XvL8K)

82 It is probably in poor taste to make fun of a retarded mayor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 09:51 AM (5DEFi)

83 Cute. But why?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 09:51 AM (OWovX)

84 It is probably in poor taste to make fun of a retarded mayor.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 09:51 AM (5DEFi)

Retarded governors are still ok though, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

85 Can I be Viceroy of Greenland?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 09:52 AM (5DEFi)

86 69 hollywood squares said neanderthals looked very much like ernest borgnine. circle got the square.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (R11M+)

87 "It is probably in poor taste to make fun of a retarded mayor."

Now do black female police chiefs.

Posted by: And misquote the Bible at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

88 My daughter had a floppy pink hat when she was that age. We were at a restaurant and an older lady came up to us and said, " I just wanted to tell you... Rarely have I seen anything cuter than your little girl in that hat. She looks adorable."
It was the sweetest and most formal compliment ever.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (2J/Lj)

89 You’re all going to be in big trouble when dad gets home.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (kbbUi)

90 The spawn use to wear bows when she was younger, up until about 9 or 10. It would be hilarious if she still did. A sniper with a big hair bow. lol 😂

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (VCgbV)

91
Still below the hunnert? What's with you slackers?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (xG4kz)

92 Ernesta > Eulalia > Honoria*

* One of the funniest jokes on M*A*S*H was when the military intelligence officer says the name of Winchester's sister (Honoria), but thinks it rhymes with gonorrhea.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (BHrzb)

93 You’re all going to be in big trouble when dad gets home.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 23, 2025 09:53 AM (kbbUi)

Mom usually passed out drunk after saying that and dad never found out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

94 Searching for that phrase got me this:

https://is.gd/hIXU03
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

Those are some nice grassy knolls.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2025 09:54 AM (g8Ew8)

95
Very nice portrait, but she's trouble, fellers, and always will be.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 09:54 AM (xG4kz)

96 16 She deserves a prettier name. Not Gertrude or Edwina, either.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (6LzyB)

They could call her Ernie for short.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 23, 2025 09:55 AM (8mulE)

97 81 haha lil' stinker gets away with stuff.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:55 AM (R11M+)

98 When Girl F. was that age she gave amazing stinkeye.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 09:55 AM (OWovX)

99 Battleships and Borgnine?

This is about us, isn't it...

Posted by: McHale's Navy at December 23, 2025 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

100 haha lil' stinker gets away with stuff.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:55 AM (R11M+)

Mmmmm...I read that as 'does butt stuff.'

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

101 Battleships need to be fast.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (5DEFi)

102 I hate to break it to you all, but that cute little girl grew up to be a radical feminist pro-abortion nutjob. Ernesta Drinker.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (FL09G)

103 Leaving California: Three More Major Businesses Close or Move Out of State.

Blue Diamond, Leprino Foods, Anheuser-Busch closing/leaving CA.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (lEejK)

104 * One of the funniest jokes on M*A*S*H was when the military intelligence officer says the name of Winchester's sister (Honoria), but thinks it rhymes with gonorrhea.
Posted by: Pete in Texas

Col. Flagg? Despite the fact that he was meant to lampoon McCarthyism, he was one of the funniest recurring characters on that show.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

105
One of the funniest jokes on M*A*S*H was when the military intelligence officer says the name of Winchester's sister (Honoria), but thinks it rhymes with gonorrhea.
Posted by: Pete in Texas

Hillaria. Shrillaria.

It works -- that's a "go"!

* hic *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (xG4kz)

106 86 69 hollywood squares said neanderthals looked very much like ernest borgnine. circle got the square.
Posted by: cmeat

How DARE CBD post this picture!!!! Ernesta is my deadname!!!

Posted by: Ernest Borgnine at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (ycI94)

107 Mommy, why are your fingers made out of Vienna Sausages?

If I’m reading the signs right, it’s because that’s not mommy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 09:57 AM (EXyHK)

108 "Don't tell mom."

Posted by: Dads everywhere at December 23, 2025 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

109 Ernesta Drinker... any relation to Critical Drinker?

Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2025 09:57 AM (Epuwl)

110 Tried this last night. Went over like a fart in church.
I thought it was funny.

German tourist tries to go thru French Customs.

French Customs Official: Name?
German Tourist: Franz Gephardt
French Customs Official: Nationality?
German Tourist: German
French Customs Official: Occupation?
German Tourist: No, not this time. Just visiting.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:58 AM (lEejK)

111 So, GDP is growing 4+% while we're deporting people, huh? Deporting from the interior, not turn away at the border like Obama.

Interesting...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

112 92 honoria mulvina delores.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:58 AM (R11M+)

113 Willowed, but that retarded DEI mayor can speak English. There’s video of him speaking it. The “I need a translator” is a sleazy old trick to deliberately muck up an interview, or to avoid any perjury liability when testifying under oath. This scumbag was surely gonna lie and thus wanted somen plausible deniability if any perjury rap came back at him. ‘Perjury? Me? Nah, the question was mistranslated. I was mistranslated. I dindu nuffin.”
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Technically speaking, he was employing an interpreter, not a translator. Translators work with written language, interpreters with spoken language.

The same people often do both, but there are different mental techniques required for each.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

114 Rhymes with a female body part.

Posted by: Jerry at December 23, 2025 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

115 So, First Daughter took the First Lady to the ER as she was still experiencing dizziness after getting her nails done for the holidays.

CAT scan came back clean (with contrast), but they did find a slight nasal infection, which may be causing an inner ear thing, but the early diagnosis is vertigo. They gave her some meds and a scrip that we'll get today.

So, add that to the list.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

116 93 no bail household opens possibilities.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 09:59 AM (R11M+)

117 Battleships need to be fast.

Posted by: Boss Moss

Because? One assumes to keep up with the carriers, but then why do we need a battleship to do that? The whole thing baffles me.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 09:59 AM (Riz8t)

118 England has a Jersey apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (5DEFi)

119 Rhymes with a female body part.
Posted by: Jerry at December 23, 2025 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

Flussy.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

120 118 England has a Jersey apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (5DEFi)

=====

A small island between England and France.

It's where The Others takes place.

It's also treated as something of a joke in English culture, especially as some sort of tax haven.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

121
Blue Diamond

When the company whose name is practically synonymous with almonds, which used to grow in abundance in the southern Central Valley of your state, pulls up its stakes and departs, you have well and truly shit the bed, Governor Greasy Stick Insect.

Well done, you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (xG4kz)

122 CAT scan came back clean (with contrast), but they did find a slight nasal infection, which may be causing an inner ear thing, but the early diagnosis is vertigo. They gave her some meds and a scrip that we'll get today.
---------------
Slap hot iron to it. Don't be a pussy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (pLaQB)

123 So, First Daughter took the First Lady to the ER as she was still experiencing dizziness after getting her nails done for the holidays.

CAT scan came back clean (with contrast), but they did find a slight nasal infection, which may be causing an inner ear thing, but the early diagnosis is vertigo. They gave her some meds and a scrip that we'll get today.

So, add that to the list.........
Posted by: Sponge

I wonder if she might possibly be hypersensitive to some of the chemicals they use? Sitting in a nail salon breathing that shit...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:01 AM (lEejK)

124 I wonder if the Jersey cow comes from there?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:01 AM (5DEFi)

125 Our nanny sneaked cigarettes and peppermint schnapps into our room for a small fee.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 23, 2025 09:43 AM (WQDw6)

My nanny was a heap big woman.

Posted by: Sir Brian May, Astrophysicist at December 23, 2025 10:02 AM (wVcYX)

126 England has a Jersey apparently.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The Isle of Jersey is not part of England, it is a British Crown Dependency. Not a part of the UK, but the UK parliament is responsible for its defense and foreign affairs.

Same deal with the rest of the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

127 Because? One assumes to keep up with the carriers, but then why do we need a battleship to do that? The whole thing baffles me.
Posted by: Archimedes
__________

In case the enemy battleships get within range of your carriers. See HMS Glorious.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 10:02 AM (XvL8K)

128
Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm.

Occupied by the Nazis in WWII.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:03 AM (xG4kz)

129 Beautiful. The whole painting focuses on her face.

Posted by: javems at December 23, 2025 10:03 AM (8I4hW)

130 I like the name Eulalia. I like old fashioned names. Hubbymayhem and I heard a restaurant worker telling a co-worker about something her little daughter did. Daughter's name is Violet. You just rarely hear that name anymore.

Which sounds better?
Grandma Violet
Grandma Tiffany
Grandma Makaylah
Grandma Sarah

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (2J/Lj)

131 What did Della wear to the party?

Posted by: Her new jersey at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

132 Blue Diamond leaving Cali? Where will they grow the almonds.

I absolutely love almonds.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

133 Leaving California: Three More Major Businesses Close or Move Out of State. Blue Diamond, Leprino Foods, Anheuser-Busch closing/leaving CA

Anheuser-Busch is still reeling from the Bud Light disaster which lead to this shutdown I hear.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (jNK17)

134 Jersey and Guernsey are cow breeds.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (5DEFi)

135 Blue Diamond, Leprino Foods, Anheuser-Busch closing/leaving CA.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (lEejK)
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Wreckers and Kulaks! We're the 5th largest economy! Squawk!
-Gavin Newsom and the California Democrat Party Supermajority in the Legislature

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (OWovX)

136 England has a Jersey apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (5DEFi)

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A small island between England and France.

It's where The Others takes place.

It's also treated as something of a joke in English culture, especially as some sort of tax haven.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)
——

Almost any state or city in USA with a “new” in its name was a named after something in the old country. New York, most famously. But before it was New York, it was settled by the Dutch and named “New Amsterdam.”

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (FL09G)

137 French Customs Official: Occupation?
German Tourist: No, not this time. Just visiting.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:58 AM (lEejK)

It got a smile outta me. Both times.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (wVcYX)

138
I wonder if she might possibly be hypersensitive to some of the chemicals they use? Sitting in a nail salon breathing that shit...
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:01 AM (lEejK)

Nah....she woke up REAL dizzy, tried to sleep it off, but was still experiencing some spins when they went out.

It was still bad enough to warrant the trip to the ER.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

139 My nanny was a heap big woman.
Posted by: Sir Brian May

I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew love before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Hey big woman, you made a bad boy out of me

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (lEejK)

140 135 Wreckers and Kulaks! We're the 5th largest economy! Squawk!
-Gavin Newsom and the California Democrat Party Supermajority in the Legislature

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (OWovX)

======

And Democrats are going to nominate one California politician for the presidency in 2028.

This is gonna be great!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

141 Daughter's name is Violet. You just rarely hear that name anymore.

A colleague of mine has a daughter named Charlotte. Another female name you don't hear much anymore, and a very pretty one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

142
Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm, LLC.

Posted by: Attorneys at law at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

143 This painting would have importance if it were a little boy.

Posted by: Oscar Wilde at December 23, 2025 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

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"The Importance of Being Trantifa."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (LgsNJ)

144 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

What did y'all do for the wedding anniversary?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

145
Rhymes with a female body part.
Posted by: Jerry

philtrum?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:06 AM (xG4kz)

146 136 Almost any state or city in USA with a “new” in its name was a named after something in the old country. New York, most famously. But before it was New York, it was settled by the Dutch and named “New Amsterdam.”

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 10:04 AM (FL09G)

======

"You. Whatever your name is... what is your name?"
"Amsterdam, sir."
"Amsterdam... I'm New York... don't you never come in here empty handed again, you gotta pay for the pleasure of my company."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

147 Rhymes with a female body part.
Posted by: Jerry

philtrum?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

The girl I had my first real-life crush on had a very nice philtrum.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

148 144 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

What did y'all do for the wedding anniversary?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

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Ate dinner. At home. I think we might have drunk some wine.

15th is already planned and mostly paid for next year, though. Week long cruise without the kids.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

149 Where was old Braunfels?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 23, 2025 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)

150 Growing Almonds requires water. Shocking to some, but it’s true.

The lunatics running California have prioritized baitfish over Agriculture. They really are a special kind of stupid.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 10:07 AM (gu2bt)

151 "They say that old New York was once New Amsterdam.."

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

152 "Don't tell mom."
Posted by: Dads everywhere at December 23, 2025 09:57 AM (2Ez/
====

I took Boy F. to get a McRib a few Saturdays ago and coached him up real good about how this was our secret and mom didn't need to know.

Literally at first sight he proudly announced, "McDonalds!"

Thanks, Bro.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:08 AM (OWovX)

153 127 Because? One assumes to keep up with the carriers, but then why do we need a battleship to do that? The whole thing baffles me.
Posted by: Archimedes
__________

In case the enemy battleships get within range of your carriers. See HMS Glorious.

So we're just ignoring the threat from rowed galleys?

For those who are interested in more info about the proposed new battleships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump-class_battleship
https://is.gd/CTQURT

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:08 AM (Riz8t)

154
15th is already planned and mostly paid for next year, though. Week long cruise without the kids.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

Bow chicka WOW wow.......

May be a third child around August, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:08 AM (Zz0t1)

155 Smash.

Posted by: The Big Guy at December 23, 2025 10:08 AM (vqA1l)

156
Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:08 AM (xG4kz)

157 Can the grow almonds in rhe Pac Northwest?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:09 AM (5DEFi)

158 130 violet hands down.
tiffany is a little pig.
makayla yells too much.
sarah is a mess.
kinda partial to else, only one i knew.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:09 AM (R11M+)

159 Where was old Braunfels?
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask

Per Wiki:

Braunfels (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaʊnfɛls] ⓘ

is a town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. It is located on the German Timber-Frame Road.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

160 *The girl I had my first real-life crush on had a very nice philtrum.*

From where I was standing I could see her conundrum.

Posted by: Dougie Howser, MD at December 23, 2025 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

161
So we're just ignoring the threat from rowed galleys?

Triemes at ramming speed, yes?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:09 AM (xG4kz)

162 Posted by: Dougie Howser, MD at December 23, 2025 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

Fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

163 “Yes I have. But we didn’t land.”

Posted by: Just The Punchline at December 23, 2025 10:10 AM (gu2bt)

164 Daughter's name is Violet. You just rarely hear that name anymore.

A colleague of mine has a daughter named Charlotte. Another female name you don't hear much anymore, and a very pretty one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

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One of our neighbors has a young girl named Winifred (nickname "Winnie") -- a name I may have heard of before but never known IRL.

* after doing an interwebz search: *

Winifred is an anglicization of the Welsh Gwenffrewi (because, of course it is).

It may refer to the 7th century Welsh saint Saint Winifred.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:10 AM (LgsNJ)

165 Whoops.

Carmaker’s overnight collapse leaves hundreds unpaid—$148M company shutters

In November 2025, Bollinger Motors abruptly shut down, ending a decade long EV bid with no deliveries and millions unpaid.

https://tinyurl.com/2x2xtwee

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:11 AM (lEejK)

166 I had an Aunt Winifred.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

167 "Jennifer" is a version of "Guinevere."

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

168
In November 2025, Bollinger Motors abruptly shut down, ending a decade long EV bid with no deliveries and millions unpaid.

https://tinyurl.com/2x2xtwee
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:11 AM (lEejK)

Add that to the list of 'green energy' failures. There's a TON of people out there that had solar installed and now have no warranty support because the install company disappeared.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

169
"Newport" was merely a clumsy attempt to escape the guffaws summoned by its prior name, "New Putz".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:12 AM (xG4kz)

170 Battleships can take out the Scandis Longships.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:13 AM (5DEFi)

171 138 some form of flu temp did that to a local merchant. he had to cruise for a couple weeks like a toddler. now we call him "wobbletony."

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:13 AM (R11M+)

172 Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm, LLC.
Posted by: Attorneys at law at December 23, 2025 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

Ah yes, we raided them.

Posted by: Crimson Permanent Assurance at December 23, 2025 10:14 AM (wVcYX)

173 141 they so easily become shrinking violet and charwoman tho.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:14 AM (R11M+)

174 New Jersey is Nova Caesarea.

Posted by: Camden Sucks, Though at December 23, 2025 10:15 AM (oftw2)

175 Anheuser-Busch is still reeling from the Bud Light disaster which lead to this shutdown I hear.

The beer industry as a whole is down in sales also.
The young adults just don’t drink beer for the most part

We’ve managed to do a great job demonizing one of the oldest drinks known to mankind

Posted by: PMRich at December 23, 2025 10:15 AM (RqfTw)

176
Gertrude, Dorothea, Constance, and Alma were the names of my paternal grandmother and her three sisters. All were born in the early 1900s.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:15 AM (xG4kz)

177 How much for the leetle girl?

Posted by: Uncle Pervy! at December 23, 2025 10:15 AM (oftw2)

178 Gertrude, Dorothea, Constance, and Alma were the names of my paternal grandmother and her three sisters. All were born in the early 1900s.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

I've always liked the named Constance.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

179 We’ve managed to do a great job demonizing one of the oldest drinks known to mankind
Posted by: PMRich at December 23, 2025 10:15 AM (RqfTw)

We? "We" didn't decide to market our beverage with a crossdressing lunatic during the manliest of events, the Final Four tournament, alienating 75% of the country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

180 I think Trump called the new ships "battleships" because it sounds cool, but they really aren't, if you assume that a real battleship has lots of very heavy armor.

The proposed Trump-class battleship prioritizes speed and advanced missile systems over the heavy, traditional armor of WWII-era battleships, focusing on modern defenses like anti-ship missiles and lasers rather than thick steel belts, though specifics on its hull/armor are still emerging, aiming for a lighter, faster design than Iowa-class despite similar size.

Shift from Traditional Armor: Unlike historical battleships with massive steel belts (like the Iowa-class's 16-inch armor), the Trump-class moves away from this doctrine, focusing less on direct gunfire protection.
Emphasis on Speed & Missiles: The design emphasizes speed and advanced missile capabilities (hypersonics, nuclear cruise missiles, railguns) over brute armor, notes New Atlas and The War Zone.
Lighter Hull: Despite being similar in size to the Iowa-class, these ships are expected to be significantly lighter, indicating a different construction approach than heavily armored predecessors.
Modern Defense Systems: Protection will rely (cont)

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

181
Headline (ABC News):

"US economy grew more than expected in 3rd quarter"

"more than expected" is a better use of our language than "unexpectedly". They're learning.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 10:16 AM (rj6Yv)

182 cutting-edge tech like high-powered lasers and advanced missile interceptors rather than thick steel plating for close-range gun duels.

In essence, the "armor" is less about thick plates and more about layered electronic warfare, rapid missile defense, and speed to avoid getting hit, a big departure from WWII battleships like the USS Alabama or Yamato.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (Riz8t)

183 103 Leaving California: Three More Major Businesses Close or Move Out of State.

Blue Diamond, Leprino Foods, Anheuser-Busch closing/leaving CA.

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Do these events cause even a moment of reflection on the part of the legislators who have made CA the most business-hostile state in the union?

Nope. Because there haven't been any adults in charge here in decades.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (+HNx/)

184 Leaving California: Three More Major Businesses Close or Move Out of State.

Blue Diamond ...

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"One ban a week, that's all we ask ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (LgsNJ)

185 181
Headline (ABC News):

"US economy grew more than expected in 3rd quarter"

"more than expected" is a better use of our language than "unexpectedly". They're learning.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 10:16 AM (rj6Yv)

======

"It's all inflation! We should be seeing negative GDP growth to make a healthy economy!"
-troll, soon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

186
He meant to say battlebots, not battleships.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (xG4kz)

187
"US economy grew more than expected in 3rd quarter"

"more than expected" is a better use of our language than "unexpectedly". They're learning.
Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 10:16 AM (rj6Yv)

This headline should be followed by "Experts don't seem to be experts at their chosen field of expertise."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

188 151 should we notify the turks?

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:18 AM (R11M+)

189 183 Do these events cause even a moment of reflection on the part of the legislators who have made CA the most business-hostile state in the union?

Nope. Because there haven't been any adults in charge here in decades.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (+HNx/)

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Their priorities are justice. Getting rid of rich businesses just makes California more justice-friendly. Fewer rich people preying on the labor of the poor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

190 In essence, the "armor" is less about thick plates and more about layered electronic warfare, rapid missile defense, and speed to avoid getting hit, a big departure from WWII battleships like the USS Alabama or Yamato.

Speed is essentially pointless in the age of missiles.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:18 AM (Riz8t)

191 Beer may well predate Bread in the human timeline. Priorities.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 10:18 AM (gu2bt)

192 He meant to say battlebots, not battleships.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Battlebots was a fun show. Robots fighting, and Carmen Electra.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

193 Beer is why the Irish invented civilization and the pyramids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (5DEFi)

194 Oh, and Canada's GDP contracted 0.3%.

Canada, which has done nothing to slow down immigration, which is explained to be the solution to low GDP, is seeing negative GDP.

While the US, which is aggressively deporting everyone, is seeing very positive GDP growth.

It's weird.

Almost like the argument that millions of low-educated foreigners juicing GDP is actually a lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

195 Do these events cause even a moment of reflection on the part of the legislators who have made CA the most business-hostile state in the union?

Nope. Because there haven't been any adults in charge here in decades.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (+HNx/)

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Debate Question Proposed: Is Satan an infant male, an adult male, or an infantilized emasculated adult?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (LgsNJ)

196 I had a Grandmother Olive.

We are lucky the trend of naming kids after drupes did not take off.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

197 Why, oh why, would they not go nuclear?

The propulsion system for the future
Trump-class battleship is currently a point of discussion, with different reports suggesting two potential systems: Integrated Full Electric Propulsion (IFEP) or a combined gas turbine and diesel arrangement.
Potential Propulsion Systems

Integrated Full Electric Propulsion (IFEP): This system, mentioned in some Navy data, uses a central electrical grid powered by multiple generators (sources vary on the primary power source) to drive electric motors for propulsion, as well as power the ship's advanced weapons and sensors. This design is similar to that initially planned for the Zumwalt-class destroyers.
Combined Gas Turbine and Diesel: Other reports describe a more conventional arrangement using gas turbines for high speeds and diesel generators for more economical cruising and standard power needs
(1 of 2)

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

198 In essence, the "armor" is less about thick plates and more about layered electronic warfare, rapid missile defense, and speed to avoid getting hit, a big departure from WWII battleships like the USS Alabama or Yamato.
Posted by: Archimedes
___________

So, more like a battlecruiser than a battleship.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 10:21 AM (XvL8K)

199 Regardless of the specific power source, the propulsion system will need to generate a massive amount of electricity to support the ship's advanced systems, including:

High-energy weapons: The ships are intended to be equipped with directed-energy systems (lasers) and an electromagnetic railgun, both of which require substantial electrical power.
Advanced sensors: The AN/SPY-6 radar and SEWIP Block III electronic warfare suites are energy-intensive systems that require significant power.
Speed: The design goal is a top speed in excess of 30 knots.

The final propulsion choice will likely depend on which system best balances the need for high power output, range, and efficiency

(2 of 2)

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:21 AM (Riz8t)

200 Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm.

Occupied by the Nazis in WWII.

And the Channel Islanders were not as resistant to the Nazis as you might think. Guy Walters' Nazis, Spies and Fakes: Ten Years at The Coalface of History is worth reading on that topic.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 10:21 AM (ufSfZ)

201 Oh, and Canada's GDP contracted 0.3%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

Trump's tariffs are destroying the world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Economy grew 4.3% last quarter.

UNEXPECTEDLY

4.3% is a blowout number. I’m sure the media will spin it as we’re in a Great Depression somehow. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 10:21 AM (UJWr0)

203 163 "i never found her head!"

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:21 AM (R11M+)

204 So, more like a battlecruiser than a battleship.

Correct. It's roughly the size of an Iowa class, but half the weight.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

205 201 Oh, and Canada's GDP contracted 0.3%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

Trump's tariffs are destroying the world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

======

Tariffs hurt other countries. So other countries should lower their tariffs on the US, huh?

Oh, only the US is supposed to be doctrinal free trade?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

206 170 Battleships can take out the Scandis Longships.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Bristling with electronic kinetics the ship will be able to project a magnetic holographic image of at a distance away from itself to incoming thus destracting it from the actual ship but to the image where it will be neutralized.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:22 AM (Mis34)

207 It's a big honkin' Coast Guard cutter. Painted gray. With laser weapons.

Posted by: But call it a battleship if you want at December 23, 2025 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)

208
I neglected to add that my paternal great grandmothers were named Agnetta and Constance.

Scandis, nay, Norskis, every one of them

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (xG4kz)

209 Where can Canada sell the worlds worst whiskey?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (5DEFi)

210 But Canada did the elbows up thing? Surely that should have juiced the economy.

Weird.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (UJWr0)

211 And the Channel Islanders were not as resistant to the Nazis as you might think. Guy Walters' Nazis, Spies and Fakes: Ten Years at The Coalface of History is worth reading on that topic.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

There was concentration camp on Alderney. Even held some Jews.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

212 Why, oh why, would they not go nuclear?

The propulsion system for the future
Trump-class battleship is currently a point of discussion, with different reports suggesting two potential systems: Integrated Full Electric Propulsion (IFEP) or a combined gas turbine and diesel arrangement.
Potential Propulsion Systems

Integrated Full Electric Propulsion (IFEP): This system, mentioned in some Navy data, uses a central electrical grid powered by multiple generators (sources vary on the primary power source) to drive electric motors for propulsion, as well as power the ship's advanced weapons and sensors. This design is similar to that initially planned for the Zumwalt-class destroyers.
Combined Gas Turbine and Diesel: Other reports describe a more conventional arrangement using gas turbines for high speeds and diesel generators for more economical cruising and standard power needs
(1 of 2)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
=========================
I don't think you understand the full power of unicorn farts.

Posted by: The Enviro Lobby at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (eFLnD)

213
Oh, only the US is supposed to be doctrinal free trade?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

The US should pay for the rest of the world's free shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

214 167 ours was a "jenner." stupid pall malls.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (R11M+)

215 My grandmother and her sisters
Margaret
Mary
Jean
Rosanna
Virginia
Modena

Fun facts!
Aunt Mary's middle name was America.
Their only brother was Bill.
Their parents names were Avery and Olive.
I considered the name Avery for my son and again for my daughter.
Neither one of my kids is named Avery.
Olivia was considered for the girl. Not chosen.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (2J/Lj)

216 103 Leaving California: Three More Major Businesses Close or Move Out of State.

Blue Diamond, Leprino Foods, Anheuser-Busch closing/leaving CA.

---------

Do these events cause even a moment of reflection on the part of the legislators who have made CA the most business-hostile state in the union?

Nope. Because there haven't been any adults in charge here in decades.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM (+HNx/)

Chevron- a California bulwark- finally left. I'd love to see a list of all the fleeing companies from the past 5 years.

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 10:23 AM (UwBs6)

217 The art is excellent. What a sweetie!

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 10:24 AM (UwBs6)

218 Grandmothers were Blanche and Mabel.

Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 10:24 AM (lJ0H4)

219 “We” didn’t invoke implied consent laws nor set the BAC level so low that merely driving past a liquor store within the past several days is sufficient to be nailed with a DUI

What’s weird, is it ain’t 1979 any longer, but the police blotters are filled with drunk drivers. Almost like criminals don’t pay any attention to the laws. You can be sure those without any license are scrupulously keeping their Insurance up to date

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 10:24 AM (gu2bt)

220 Solar or wind powered Battleships?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (5DEFi)

221 Bristling with electronic kinetics the ship will be able to project a magnetic holographic image of at a distance away from itself to incoming thus destracting it from the actual ship but to the image where it will be neutralized.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:22 AM (Mis34)

The new Loki class of ships?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (wVcYX)

222 The battleship is intended to operate as a command platform when required. The design explicitly shows space for an embarked commander with a full C4I suite, reinforcing Navy statements that the ship could lead a Surface Action Group, operate independently or integrate into a Carrier Strike Group.

https://is.gd/NhimCu

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (Riz8t)

223 I can say from a personal point of view the job market has definitely shifted. During the summer it was radio silence from recruiters. The in the fall started getting some Indian recruiters calling.

Now it’s real recruiters calling. As definite noticeable shift.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (UJWr0)

224 She's heading straight for the first mud puddle she sees.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (3uBP9)

225 He meant to say battlebots, not battleships.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM

Trump is proposing Mecha Gojira?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (kgE5c)

226 176 did alma marry richard loving?

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:26 AM (R11M+)

227 Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa
Posted by: redridinghood

Beautiful child, beautiful lady.
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

I was skeptical about what I'd find at the link, but yes-- A truly lovely woman!

Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 10:26 AM (UwBs6)

228 did alma marry richard loving?
Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:26 AM (R11M+)

William Motter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

229 220 Solar or wind powered Battleships?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (5DEFi)

Row well and live #220

Posted by: Quintus Arrias at December 23, 2025 10:27 AM (wVcYX)

230 So, more like a battlecruiser than a battleship.

Correct. It's roughly the size of an Iowa class, but half the weight.
Posted by: Archimedes
__________

The last thing we had like that was the Alaskas with 12" guns at the end of WWII, although I think they were actually classified as heavy cruisers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 10:27 AM (XvL8K)

231 Yes, but can the new Trump-class battleship flood ballast tanks on one side so as to gangster-lean the entire ship and allow the 16-inch guns to reach farther inland?

If not, miss me with that shit.

Posted by: ballistic at December 23, 2025 10:27 AM (5aZAZ)

232 My Dutch-born maternal grandmother's original name was "Leifke," which she anglicized to "Elizabeth" in the states.

My Dutch-born paternal grandmother's name was "Wilhelmina" (which she kept as it was). Thus, my father was named "William."

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

233 I saw the Irish Pyramids open for NewGrange at Cois na hAbhna in '99.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:27 AM (LgsNJ)

234 Their priorities are justice. Getting rid of rich businesses just makes California more justice-friendly. Fewer rich people preying on the labor of the poor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)
======

California's government Commies believe that preying on the labor of the poor is their bailiwick. So, exile the non-compliant rich and beat the serfs. Nothing to see here, Comrade. Move along.

Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 10:28 AM (rj6Yv)

235 Almost like the argument that millions of low-educated foreigners juicing GDP is actually a lie.

I, for one, like our new open-borders policy. Hasta la vista, baby, except for la vista!

Maybe we should open our one-way borders to the north, as well. We could get Canadian NGO's to train them in Economic Refugee claims.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 10:28 AM (6LzyB)

236 He meant to say battlebots, not battleships.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:17 AM

Trump is proposing Mecha Gojira?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (kgE5c)

To be based and housed on Greenland, no doubt.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 10:29 AM (wVcYX)

237 @115 Sponge, you might do some research on the Epley maneuver for your wife's vertigo. My wife developed vertigo after her chemo and this has helped her deal with it.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 23, 2025 10:29 AM (ViCCR)

238
Painting of Ernesta as an adult-

https://tinyurl.com/u5cjs9fa
Posted by: redridinghood

Beautiful child, beautiful lady.
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

I was skeptical about what I'd find at the link, but yes-- A truly lovely woman!
Posted by: LASue

She is jonesing for her smoke, which is just out of the frame and on the left.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

239 Leaving California: Three More Major Businesses Close or Move Out of State.

Blue Diamond, Leprino Foods, Anheuser-Busch closing/leaving CA.

—

I pointed out how many companies have left Cali on Reddit a while ago. And the replies I got were hilarious. Some were just “nah bruh you’re lying this is just Right wing propaganda” even though I posted news articles from CNBC or Reuters or whatever.

The other replies were along the lines of “who cares if a few thousand jobs are gone, it’s a drop in the bucket”.

This is the attitude of voters in Cali (NY, IL well). No matter how much bad news is presented they shrug and keep voting Democrat.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 10:30 AM (UJWr0)

240 Sponge, you might do some research on the Epley maneuver for your wife's vertigo. My wife developed vertigo after her chemo and this has helped her deal with it.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 23, 2025 10:29 AM (ViCCR)

That's awesome. Thank you for that. I'll pass it along to her as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

241 No more Bud Light in Cali?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:31 AM (5DEFi)

242
Obama-class warships will be praised for the coquettish manner in which they will swish their fantails.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM (xG4kz)

243 “We” didn’t invoke implied consent laws nor set the BAC level so low that merely driving past a liquor store within the past several days is sufficient to be nailed with a DUI

What’s weird, is it ain’t 1979 any longer, but the police blotters are filled with drunk drivers. Almost like criminals don’t pay any attention to the laws. You can be sure those without any license are scrupulously keeping their Insurance up to date
Posted by: Common Tater

My Concealed Handgun License is worth more to me than any drink outside of my home.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM (lEejK)

244 241 No more Bud Light in Cali?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:31 AM (5DEFi)

So maybe this is good news for he state after all? 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM (UJWr0)

245 With the Gov. of Louisiana being named Trump's special envoy to Greenland, are we gonna see a new Greenlandic-Cajun fusion cuisine come up?

Muktuk jambalaya?

Caribou andouille?

The possibilities are endless, really.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

246 Trump is proposing Mecha Gojira?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:25 AM (kgE5c)

To be based and housed on Greenland, no doubt.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 10:29 AM

10-year-old me approves of this wholeheartedly.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM (kgE5c)

247 William Motter.
Posted by: Sponge

********

What's a Motter?

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 10:33 AM (/iMjX)

248 There's a TON of people out there that had solar installed and now have no warranty support because the install company disappeared.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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My in-laws are one. There is a whole new industry that works on ALL solar systems/set ups and fixes issues. They all have issues.
If I were to do solar I'd pick Tesla and do the power wall with. But I'm not doing solar.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:33 AM (VCgbV)

249 I want an amendment to the constitution that states plainly that no military equipment or vehicle can ever be named after Oblabo. Ever.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (2J/Lj)

250 With the Gov. of Louisiana being named Trump's special envoy to Greenland, are we gonna see a new Greenlandic-Cajun fusion cuisine come up?

Muktuk jambalaya?

Caribou andouille?

The possibilities are endless, really.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM

Seal etouffee?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (kgE5c)

251 'Now you have a good time, Ernesta. And don't get dirty.'
- nanny

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (LHPAg)

252 What's a Motter?
Posted by: muldoon

Motter N. Bailey, military engineer and architect.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

253 Caribou andouille?

The possibilities are endless, really.
Posted by: Bulg

*********

Red beans and ice

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)

254
My Concealed Handgun License is worth more to me than any drink outside of my home.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM (lEejK)

The BAC law has nothing to do with LTC, as I learned in my class. It's all up to the officer's discretion in any incident relating to you pulling or using your weapon. Of course, being drunk and pulling your sidearm might not be the smartest of moves, but as with any situation, "I feared for my life, I want my lawyer."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

255 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Cute kid. Nice painting.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:35 AM (2WIwB)

256 191 Beer may well predate Bread in the human timeline. Priorities.
Posted by: Common Tater

Beer is bread in liquid form. Not useful for making sandwiches.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 10:35 AM (Dv3i1)

257 What's a Motter?
Posted by: muldoon

Motter University.

Whatsa Motter U.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:35 AM (lEejK)

258 Why, oh why, would they not go nuclear?

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"... a Small Nuclear Reactor on every desk and in every home."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:36 AM (LgsNJ)

259 Red beans and ice
Posted by: muldoon

LOL.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

260 With the Gov. of Louisiana being named Trump's special envoy to Greenland, are we gonna see a new Greenlandic-Cajun fusion cuisine come up?

Muktuk jambalaya?

Caribou andouille?

The possibilities are endless, really.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:32 AM

Seal etouffee?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (kgE5c)

Suaasat gumbo!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 10:36 AM (wVcYX)

261 I want an amendment to the constitution that states plainly that no military equipment or vehicle can ever be named after Oblabo. Ever.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (2J/Lj)

Maybe the concrete vibrators for the construction battalions, since they're always stirring up the mud.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 10:36 AM (BI5O2)

262
Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm
Were a toffee-nosed English law firm
They hired lots of muslims
By dozens and dozens
Then after jihad were Mohammed and Herm

Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 10:36 AM (iJfKG)

263 228 she eloped with bill's brother dark.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:36 AM (R11M+)

264 Late to the thread, dammit!

This is a lovely portrait. The girl's face and hands center the viewer's attention. The rest, well done as it is, makes a frame. Such a simple and effective painting. I'm sure it was treasured by the family. Looked up her other portraits on her Wiki page and they are outstanding.

I was immediately reminded of a quote from Heinlein. "Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse,”

Posted by: JTB at December 23, 2025 10:37 AM (yTvNw)

265 The BAC law has nothing to do with LTC, as I learned in my class. It's all up to the officer's discretion in any incident relating to you pulling or using your weapon. Of course, being drunk and pulling your sidearm might not be the smartest of moves, but as with any situation, "I feared for my life, I want my lawyer."
Posted by: Sponge

No pulling. Being pulled over and suspected.
.05 or .06 on a hinky breathalyzer shows up as a .08 and it's goodbye license.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:37 AM (lEejK)

266 He's saying it will be a petrol burner to raz up the greenies. Eventually he will conceed to them and install nuclear. The ship will need nuclear just to power all the electronics.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:38 AM (Mis34)

267
No pulling. Being pulled over and suspected.
.05 or .06 on a hinky breathalyzer shows up as a .08 and it's goodbye license.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:37 AM (lEejK)

Well, in a constitutional carry state, unless I'm convicted of a felony, I'll have a weapon on me no matter what.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

268 There's a TON of people out there that had solar installed and now have no warranty support because the install company disappeared.

Good. They learned the hard way.

Posted by: It's A Swindle at December 23, 2025 10:39 AM (m8zKa)

269 Kringle alert!!!
'
The local Aldi grocery has real Wisconsin kringles in stock. Had some for breakfast. Get 'em while you can.

PS: They freeze just fine.

Posted by: JTB at December 23, 2025 10:39 AM (yTvNw)

270 Beer is bread in liquid form. Not useful for making sandwiches.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 10:35 AM (Dv3i1)

With the Ronco Breadalizer sliced-bread popsicle mold, you can make your beer into bread that never goes stale, saving you thousands every year, while enjoying a beverage and sandwich all-in-one - another huge savings in time and effort.

Posted by: RONCO at December 23, 2025 10:40 AM (BI5O2)

271 Kringle alert!!!
'
The local Aldi grocery has real Wisconsin kringles in stock. Had some for breakfast. Get 'em while you can.

PS: They freeze just fine.
Posted by: JTB

Krispy kringles?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

272 He's saying it will be a petrol burner to raz up the greenies. Eventually he will conceed to them and install nuclear. The ship will need nuclear just to power all the electronics.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:38 AM (Mis34)

No tesseract cube?

Posted by: Marvel Cinematic Universe at December 23, 2025 10:40 AM (wVcYX)

273 247 boo who?

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:41 AM (R11M+)

274 Islam Invasion @IslamInvasion

“The greatest threat to the security of the United States is the Islamist ideology”

@TulsiGabbard: If we don't take action we will end up like many European countries. It is already here!

Is the Trump admin silently addressing this?!

Tulsi Gabbard declares Islamist Ideology the top near- and long-term danger to U.S. freedom and security, antithetical to constitutional rights.

X video (TPUSA speech): https://bit.ly/4j73PR2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 23, 2025 10:41 AM (P5BPp)

275 How far left does your party have to go to lose Nicki Minaj?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:41 AM (lEejK)

276
Tulsi Gabbard declares Islamist Ideology the top near- and long-term danger to U.S. freedom and security, antithetical to constitutional rights.

X video (TPUSA speech): https://bit.ly/4j73PR2
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 23, 2025 10:41 AM (P5BPp)

She is correct.

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

277 Why, oh why, would they not go nuclear?

We used to have surface nukes other than carriers.
Even other former nukes at my job didn’t even know we used to have nuke cruisers

Then there were a couple of “Oh, Fuck” moments (USS Stark & USS Cole) that revealed the risks of damage to the nuclear core in an attack. Especially elevated risks due to the role this class of ship is tasked with.

I’m not a real fan of the gas turbines, amazing just how much fuel one of those can go through. But they are overall more reliable than piston based engines

Posted by: PMRich at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (RqfTw)

278 Massachusetts Mayor Can’t Understand English, Needs Translator In Court

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Old American motto: In God We Trust

New American motto: Death To America

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

279 I want an amendment to the constitution that states plainly that no military equipment or vehicle can ever be named after Oblabo. Ever.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (2J/Lj)
-

Not even the General Dynamics PP-111 Outdoor Latrine Excavator?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (KgVf3)

280 Maybe the concrete vibrators for the construction battalions, since they're always stirring up the mud.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 10:36 AM (BI5O2)

Is there a small ship that gets alongside of a real ship and pumps out the sewage and nothing else? Just a goofy looking, little, pathetic boat that sucks up shit and considers itself to be very important? I would name that after him!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (2J/Lj)

281 The proposed USS Barack Obama (potentially CVN-84):

https://is.gd/ieYzH6

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (LgsNJ)

282 111 So, GDP is growing 4+% while we're deporting people, huh? Deporting from the interior, not turn away at the border like Obama.

Interesting...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I assume there will be a dedicated thread on this later today. Spoiler: the Left has plenty of explanations as to how these numbers are false at best, and actually a sign of economic weakness at worst.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (ycI94)

283 249 other than last minute changes to ones being scuttled.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (R11M+)

284 mom's name was Malvina and her cousin was Rojene. I thank God I wasn't Malvina II.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (2NHgQ)

285 Might attempt another apple pie and a lemon tart. I've got the lemon tart down but the apple pie is a bit elusive.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (VCgbV)

286 He's saying it will be a petrol burner to raz up the greenies.

The Smokin' Joe Frazier, fueled by dirty Venezuelan oil and manned by ex-EPA administrators.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (6LzyB)

287 -
Old American motto: In God We Trust

New American motto: Death To America
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

"The United States is NOT a Christian nation."

- - - - - Barack Hussein Owebama

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

288 Learning English can be tough for retards.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (5DEFi)

289 Ernesta (Child with Nurse)
Cecilia Beaux, American
1894

Beautiful painting with the artist hinting of Degas and Manet.

Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 23, 2025 10:44 AM (NFX2v)

290 Kringle alert!!!
'
The local Aldi grocery has real Wisconsin kringles in stock. Had some for breakfast. Get 'em while you can.

PS: They freeze just fine.
Posted by: JTB

Kringle alert!
Kroger AND H E B both have rib eye roast for $5.99 lb thru Christmas. Around $57 each.

I'm grabbing three on the way home. Slicing, vacuum sealing and freezing.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:44 AM (lEejK)

291 Tulsi Gabbard declares Islamist Ideology the top near- and long-term danger to U.S. freedom and security, antithetical to constitutional rights.

X video (TPUSA speech): https://bit.ly/4j73PR2
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

I was told by the last administration that White Christian Nationalism is the existential threat.

If Dems win, I'm sure the threat assessment will swing back to whitey.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 10:45 AM (Dv3i1)

292 The proposed USS Barack Obama (potentially CVN-84):

https://is.gd/ieYzH6
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (LgsNJ)

Nah....it would be a neon green dildo with a forward hairy man ass attachment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

293
I'm grabbing three on the way home. Slicing, vacuum sealing and freezing.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:44 AM (lEejK)

Got one the other day and sliced and sealed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

294 Is there a small ship that gets alongside of a real ship and pumps out the sewage and nothing else? Just a goofy looking, little, pathetic boat that sucks up shit and considers itself to be very important? I would name that after him!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (2J/Lj

He shouldn't get a whole ship. Maybe they could just dedicate a poop deck to him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 10:45 AM (BI5O2)

295 Well, in a constitutional carry state, unless I'm convicted of a felony, I'll have a weapon on me no matter what.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck
---

Didn't make headlines because it didn't happen in an upscale neighborhood but day before yesterday another

young white high school student was stabbed to death (murdered) because the assailant thought the kid took his vape pen.

Right there in the school hallway he was stabbed to death. You don't have to guess if there were racial implications.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:46 AM (Mis34)

296 What's a Motter?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 10:46 AM (Kt19C)

297 282
I assume there will be a dedicated thread on this later today. Spoiler: the Left has plenty of explanations as to how these numbers are false at best, and actually a sign of economic weakness at worst.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM (ycI94)

======

Oh, I can imagine a few.

But I am interested in DU's take. Older, more partisan, less ideological thoughts from Democrat dummies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

298 264 right up there with chevalier.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:46 AM (R11M+)

299 mom's name was Malvina and her cousin was Rojene. I thank God I wasn't Malvina II.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 10:43 AM

I work with an Ernestina, an old Italian name meaning "we wanted a boy".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:46 AM (kgE5c)

300 H E B both have rib eye roast for $5.99 lb thru Christmas. Around $57 each.
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I have to swing by and get some. I have the additional 25% off if it's an H‑E‑B "branded" meat.🥩

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:47 AM (VCgbV)

301 mom's name was Malvina
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

Was her last name Falkland?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

302 He shouldn't get a whole ship. Maybe they could just dedicate a poop deck to him.

Cruise ships have a black water storage tank. That should do nicely.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:48 AM (Riz8t)

303 Willowed, but that retarded DEI mayor can speak English. There’s video of him speaking it. The “I need a translator” is a sleazy old trick to deliberately muck up an interview, or to avoid any perjury liability when testifying under oath. This scumbag was surely gonna lie and thus wanted some plausible deniability if any perjury rap came back at him. ‘Perjury? Me? Nah, the question was mistranslated. I was mistranslated. I dindu nuffin.”

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 09:49 AM

Has the state of Massachusetts always been this retarded with their DEI politicians?

There's this DEI scumbag pretending he can't speak English and then there's the Boston Mayor Wu who is pushing the narrative that Boston would be nothing without Somalians.

The DEI Mayor is in an area with 80% Hispanics. Is Boston now filled with a bunch of Somalians similar to Minnesomalia (MN) and Columbus (OH) where the Mayor feels the need to pander? Or is she just following her marching orders from George Soros?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 23, 2025 10:48 AM (P5BPp)

304 Mr Senegal happy and quiet picking sesame seeds from barbari bread.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 10:48 AM (Kt19C)

305 I want an amendment to the constitution that states plainly that no military equipment or vehicle can ever be named after Oblabo. Ever.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:34 AM (2J/Lj)

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Can they build the Obama Presidential Outhouse and Bathhouse at Naval Station Great Lakes?

They could turn the Basement into the ~~Biden Presidential~~ AutoPen Empire Library with no books, just crayons and paste, and an Etch A Sketch.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:48 AM (LgsNJ)

306 294 Is there a small ship that gets alongside of a real ship and pumps out the sewage and nothing else? Just a goofy looking, little, pathetic boat that sucks up shit and considers itself to be very important? I would name that after him!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:42 AM (2J/Lj
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It's called the Watermelon ship?

That's so dumb. From the beginning of time it's gone into the ocean. Every other nation dumps into the ocean. It's part of the ocean eco system.
jeepers

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:49 AM (Mis34)

307 The Barack Obama latrine at Fort Nowhere Alaska. I might agree to that. But only if it's a "memorial" naming.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:49 AM (2J/Lj)

308 Former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska announced on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with metastatic stage-four pancreatic cancer, candidly calling it "a death sentence."

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 10:49 AM (GITLP)

309 My grandmas were Elizabeth and Flossie. Grandpas were Arthur (was called Chester, his middle name) and Walter.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 23, 2025 10:49 AM (PSEDc)

310
Right there in the school hallway he was stabbed to death. You don't have to guess if there were racial implications.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:46 AM (Mis34)

Karmelo Anthony is still on house arrest after posting a lowered to $250k bond for murdering a white kid at a school track meet because of racial implications.

The trial doesn't start till June, 2026.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

311 the Mayor feels the need to pander? Or is she just following her marching orders from George Soros?
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I'm assuming theses Mayors are simply hiding all the illegal immigrant fraud that they are dipping their beaks into.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (Dv3i1)

312 Japan Ready to Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Reactor 15 Years After Fukushima Disaster

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They just need to ban earthquakes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

313 The Navy had or has a rough idea of an "arsenal ship" that, on paper, looks a lot like this battleship idea Trump's proposing.

So, I think this thing, if it ever comes to fruition, it would likely be classified as a cruiser and likely operate as a command ship with, or without a carrier present.

But I seriously doubt it will ever see the light of day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (NwnyJ)

314 280 levine class.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (R11M+)

315 Husband's grandmother was named Pearl. It was briefly considered for the spawn. I also liked Violet but lost that battle. I have noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

316
There's a TON of people out there that had solar installed and now have no warranty support because the install company disappeared.

You can exit your solar contract.

https://t.ly/2U0c0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (pkeXY)

317 Is Boston now filled with a bunch of Somalians similar to Minnesomalia (MN) and Columbus (OH) where the Mayor feels the need to pander? Or is she just following her marching orders from George Soros?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 23, 2025 10:48 AM (P5BPp)

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Yes!

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (LgsNJ)

318
I work with an Ernestina, an old Italian name meaning "we wanted a boy".
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:46 AM (kgE5c)

Heh.

Poor thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

319 305 I want an amendment to the constitution that states plainly that no military equipment or vehicle can ever be named after Oblabo. Ever.

Posted by: Madamemayhem
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They will name one properly.
Decommission it immediatly.
Haul it out to sea and use it
for target practice.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (Mis34)

320 So, I think this thing, if it ever comes to fruition, it would likely be classified as a cruiser and likely operate as a command ship with, or without a carrier present.

But I seriously doubt it will ever see the light of day.

I dunno. Trump moves fast. His name is already on the Kennedy Center.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:51 AM (Riz8t)

321 So, dd CDB patch up the wall where the couch pushed the panel in, or burn it all down?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 23, 2025 10:51 AM (36PRH)

322 312 Japan Ready to Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Reactor 15 Years After Fukushima Disaster

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They just need to ban earthquakes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

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Apparently, the actual damage to the reactor was almost nothing. It was just panic that kept it shut down for so long.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

323 Husband's grandmother was named Pearl. It was briefly considered for the spawn. I also liked Violet but lost that battle. I have noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

I think Spawn works just fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

324 Husband's grandmother was named Pearl. It was briefly considered for the spawn. I also liked Violet but lost that battle. I have noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

My daughter has an old fashioned name, but just because she's named after her grandmother. Not a fashion choice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 10:51 AM (BI5O2)

325 Trump moves fast. His name is already on the Kennedy Center.
Posted by: Archimedes

I just love that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

326 I have to swing by and get some. I have the additional 25% off if it's an H‑E‑B "branded" meat.🥩
Posted by: lin-duh

Oh, I hate you. LOL. 😂😂😂

$42.75 each. Not shabby at all. And HEB is $5.77 lb

H-E-B Beef Small End 4-Rib Ribeye Roast - USDA Choice, Avg. 10.0 Ibs

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:53 AM (lEejK)

327 Ovum? Zygote? Tadpole?

Posted by: Count de Monet, rejected baby names at December 23, 2025 10:53 AM (wVcYX)

328 Charming painting. The little girl reminds me of my granddaughter when she was about four.

Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 10:53 AM (2L+MU)

329 noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

So no more Brooklyns, Dakotas and Ethans?
Thank Allah!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 10:53 AM (UJWr0)

330 The Bee had an article about how RFK, Jr. has now changed his name to Robert F. Trump-Kennedy Jr.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

331 Husband's grandmother was named Pearl. It was briefly considered for the spawn. I also liked Violet but lost that battle. I have noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

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Wifey's paternal aunt was named Pearl Oreen -- but went by Oreen. We have an old group photo including her during The Depression, and she's the spitting image of my wife.

Tragically, I mean you used to hear this back in the day: she was married and had a couple of kids, but they were so poor that after she got pregnant again, she tried to self-abort the fetus ... and got a bad infection and died.

Ugh.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:54 AM (LgsNJ)

332 Sponge,
Tell the First Lady I said hello and am praying for a swift recovery.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:54 AM (VCgbV)

333 Husband's grandmother was named Pearl. It was briefly considered for the spawn. I also liked Violet but lost that battle. I have noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

I think Spawn works just fine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

Pearl is a lovely name.

If the child is going to grow up to be a serial killer who uses pitchforks and alligators to murder.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 10:54 AM (dGCAG)

334 Meerkat meatloaf.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (LHPAg)

335 I think most of the nicest female names come from the Bible (including the Apocrypha):

Elizabeth, Susan, Abigail, Mary, Anna, Judith, etc.

The ancient Hebrews/Jews just had a way with names.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

336 I'd be honored with any type of ship at all, as long as it carries seamen.

Posted by: Barack Hussein at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (6LzyB)

337 So gdp is spectacular and consumer confidence is down! I'll never understand our economy. Why isn't the market having a boffo day.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (2NHgQ)

338 noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

So no more Brooklyns, Dakotas and Ethans?
Thank Allah!!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

I'd like to see more Sarahs, Katherines & Rebeccas.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (lEejK)

339 UK is dystopia -

(LifeSiteNews) — The U.K.’s prosecuting of a British pro-life activist for standing silently within an abortion center’s buffer zone is not only “concerning” as it violates “common sense” but is an “unwelcome departure” from shared transatlantic values, said a Trump administration official.

According to a Saturday report in The Telegraph, the spokesman for the U.S. State Department was addressing the case of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Catholic pro-life activist who was charged last Wednesday for standing and silently praying on the street outside an abortion facility in Birmingham.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 10:56 AM (Dv3i1)

340 Sponge,
Tell the First Lady I said hello and am praying for a swift recovery.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:54 AM (VCgbV)

Will do. She's currently heading to her post surgery follow up with her OB. Said she's still a little swimmy, but much better than yesterday.

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

341 I always liked Ya'el, but the wife wouldn't go for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 10:56 AM (BI5O2)

342 So no more Brooklyns, Dakotas and Ethans?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Ethan is a great boy's name. Are they using it for girls now, too??? WTF???

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

343 308 Former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska announced on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with metastatic stage-four pancreatic cancer, candidly calling it "a death sentence."
Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 10:49 AM (GITLP)

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemies..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

344 337 So gdp is spectacular and consumer confidence is down! I'll never understand our economy. Why isn't the market having a boffo day.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (2NHgQ)

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I know that there's one prominent consumer survey that's essentially just a survey of Democrat partisans. It always predicts great things under Democrat presidents and terrible things under GOP presidents, no matter what actually happens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

345 I saw Sarah, Rebecca and Kathrine open for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at the Mason County Fairgrounds in '78.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

346 So no more Brooklyns, Dakotas and Ethans?
____

Wait, what?

Posted by: Ethan Allen, Hero of the Revolution at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (Dv3i1)

347 I love the name Pearl.

Pearl
Opal
Violet
Rose
Sophia
Olivia

These names seem to be making a comeback.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (2J/Lj)

348 > So, I think this thing, if it ever comes to fruition, it would likely be classified as a cruiser and likely operate as a command ship with, or without a carrier present.

But I seriously doubt it will ever see the light of day.

I dunno. Trump moves fast. His name is already on the Kennedy Center.
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It'd take 5 years to design, another 5 of redesign, and a decade to build the first one. Presuming it isn't canceled by the Democrats before it sees the light of day.

Shipbuilding in the US sucks. Unless we're talking submarines or, maybe, aircraft carriers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (NwnyJ)

349 338 noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

Two of My Grandsons are the more trendy names and two are Bible names...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)

350 I always liked Ya'el, but the wife wouldn't go for it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You'd have to keep her away from tent pegs. Jus' sayin'.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

351 I saw Sarah, Rebecca and Kathrine open for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at the Mason County Fairgrounds in '78.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Which one of the four, C, S, N, or Y had to settle for sloppy seconds?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (dGCAG)

352 The Bee had an article about how RFK, Jr. has now changed his name to Robert F. Trump-Kennedy Jr.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

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lmao

Trump should rename the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room to the Mimi Alford Beardsley Press Briefing room, given that it was formerly the White House pool with naked JFK and his frolicking teen mistresses ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (LgsNJ)

353 Trump moves fast. His name is already on the Kennedy Center.
Posted by: Archimedes

Faster than Newsom's bullet train?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

354
Which one of the four, C, S, N, or Y had to settle for sloppy seconds?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (dGCAG)

Those guys are fags!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

355 313 The Navy had or has a rough idea of an "arsenal ship" that, on paper, looks a lot like this battleship idea Trump's proposing.

So, I think this thing, if it ever comes to fruition, it would likely be classified as a cruiser and likely operate as a command ship with, or without a carrier present.

But I seriously doubt it will ever see the light of day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 10:50 AM (NwnyJ)
HMS Habakuk, the iceberg aircraft carrier. WW II.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (LHPAg)

356 I love the name Pearl.

Pearl
Opal
Violet
Rose
Sophia
Olivia

These names seem to be making a comeback.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (2J/Lj)

Does NOBODY watch movies anymore?

TJM, help me out here.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (dGCAG)

357 At its peak in the late 1970s to muse 80s Jennifer was the most popular name in the US for newborn girls. I think it was number 1 for about 10 years. One year, 4/100 girls born in the US were named Jennifer.

I’m in that age group and it did seem like every class I was in had 2 or 3 Jennifers or Jennys in it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (UJWr0)

358 Which one of the four, C, S, N, or Y had to settle for sloppy seconds?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (dGCAG)

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Neil Young was searching for a crotch of gold.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (LgsNJ)

359 Faster than Newsom's bullet train?
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Failure of the bullet train should be sufficient to sink anyone's chances at winning the presidency. But we live in a strange timeline where maximum incompetence and corruption gets rewarded.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 11:01 AM (Dv3i1)

360 The Smokin' Joe Frazier, fueled by dirty Venezuelan oil and manned by ex-EPA administrators.
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Old worn out car tires for backup.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:01 AM (pCu7j)

361 I’m in that age group and it did seem like every class I was in had 2 or 3 Jennifers or Jennys in it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

The sexiest girls are usually named either "Jennifer" or "Dawn."

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

362 While the US, which is aggressively deporting everyone, is seeing very positive GDP growth.

It's weird.

Almost like the argument that millions of low-educated foreigners juicing GDP is actually a lie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Green policies are job and GDP killers. Illegals, visa immigrants lumped under H1B, and low skill workers depress native wages, raise inflation of key goods like food, rent, etc. And protective tariffs, as they normally do, spur domestic investment and manufacturing.

The left always ignores basic economic realities in favor of ideology. Subsidize something like illegal immigrants, you get more of it, tax something, you get less of it, green Nude Eels never work other than to enrich some at the expense of impoverishing the vast populace, and government should not be counted as part of the GDP because there is no such thing as government 'investment', only costs to the domestic economy where money is taken from taxpayers could have been used elsewhere for better effect (Bastiat's Broken Window thesis extended).

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (WDjG6)

363 At its peak in the late 1970s to muse 80s Jennifer was the most popular name in the US for newborn girls. I think it was number 1 for about 10 years. One year, 4/100 girls born in the US were named Jennifer.

I’m in that age group and it did seem like every class I was in had 2 or 3 Jennifers or Jennys in it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (UJWr0)

And you already know their phone number by heart.

867-5309

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (wVcYX)

364 by: Ethan Allen, Hero of the Revolution at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (Dv3i1)

The furniture guy?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (UJWr0)

365 Faster than Newsom's bullet train?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

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* cue The Talking Heads *

"We're on the bridge to nowhere ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (LgsNJ)

366 What was Hyacinth's maiden name before she married Richard Bucket? Did they ever say?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

367 My aunt passed away at the beginning of the year. Her name was Reva Nell. I always liked the name Nell.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (2J/Lj)

368 I think it's just a continuation of the LEGEND Class Coast Guard cutters being built by Ingalls in Mississippi.
Doing this keeps the production line hot and doesn't create a delay for design and development.

The cutters are about the size of a frigate so instead of being painted white and going to the Coast Guard they'll be painted gray and go to the Navy.
Put some missiles and laser weapons on board and designate it as a cruiser.

But Trump's ego demands it be referred to as a battleship. Because Trump.

Posted by: But what do I know at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)

369 Karmelo Anthony is still on house arrest

Because violent, no impulse control, low IQ murderous thugs can be trusted to roam unrestricted.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (BvPIe)

370 The sexiest girls are usually named either "Jennifer" or "Dawn."
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

The older you get, eventually ALL these names remind you of somebody you knew.

Which of course can be good or bad.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (dGCAG)

371
noticed that children are being named "old fashioned" names lately.

Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (pkeXY)

372 I always liked the name Nell.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

*fistbump*
-- King Charles II

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

373 Failure of the bullet train should be sufficient to sink anyone's chances at winning the presidency. But we live in a strange timeline where maximum incompetence and corruption gets rewarded.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Electoral fraud, any cheat by mail state should be assumed to have fraudulent elections--no other nation uses such as a primary election method.

The rest of it is that corrupt electorates figure if they let the bigwigs tax the 'rich' for their payout, then some of that corruption will trickle down to the welfare class.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (WDjG6)

374 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

375 Neil Young was searching for a crotch of gold.
Posted by: ShainS
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Now he's getting old and still searching--as to for what, he has already forgotten.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (WDjG6)

376 My aunt passed away at the beginning of the year. Her name was Reva Nell. I always liked the name Nell.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (2J/Lj)

Me too. Nell is the apple of my eye.

Posted by: Dudley Do-Right, Mountie at December 23, 2025 11:06 AM (wVcYX)

377 344 337 So gdp is spectacular and consumer confidence is down! I'll never understand our economy. Why isn't the market having a boffo day.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (2NHgQ)
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Market is fickle and the big trading houses exert influence. Just because "the market" is up or down may or may not have any relevance to your porfolio.
As I started the second sentence of this post text was recieved of my sale, at my price, of a stock that's been up for more than three months.

My biggest losses came from a folio managed by Vanguard. Their porfolios have ~200/500 stocks.
Never a good move. They make money with your money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:06 AM (Mis34)

378 One year, 4/100 girls born in the US were named Jennifer.

My girlfriend had so many friends of that name, that they had to go with Jen, Jenny, Jenna, Jennifer, and often they absolutely had to include their last names.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (6LzyB)

379 267 as did dudley do-right.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (R11M+)

380 Brian Dennehy played a heavy cruiser in several Naval epics.

Posted by: Two Tony Awards at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (oftw2)

381 and government should not be counted as part of the GDP because there is no such thing as government 'investment', only costs to the domestic economy where money is taken from taxpayers could have been used elsewhere for better effect

For every public bureaucrat, you have armies of private industry lawyers, controllers and compliance officers, their staff, their "desk costs" and the silencing effect on innovation. Then there is the implementation attempting to do a thing to get around the regulations, or abiding by them and forced to do things that are counter-productive or totally unwanted.

I know of several potentially lucrative projects that were smothered in the cradle because regulatory and tax implications.

OTOH, I know of many wasteful projects that came about as a result of government skewing the market and providing large subsidies and regulatory favoritism - these projects were really façades for wasteful rent seeking.

We can easily make a list.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (pUU4E)

382 379 shoulda been 367 but 376 destroyed it.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (R11M+)

383 Just make some more of those clitoral ships no one can find a purpose for.

Posted by: navy spends real good at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (IVZwn)

384 My paternal grandmother was the youngest of four sisters. Her older sisters were Bertha, Myrtle, and Gertrude--aka Bert, Myrt, and Gert!

My grandmother was Nell. Not even Eleanor, just Nell. Lucky girl.

Posted by: Wenda at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (cRhQI)

385 President Donald Trump on Monday defended his administration’s plan to offer 600,000 visas to Chinese students — a move that has drawn criticism from within conservative circles.

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham pressed Trump during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning how the proposal was "pro-MAGA" if it crowded out spots for American students and whether universities were "getting rich" from Chinese money.

Trump argued that foreign students — particularly from China — are vital to keeping U.S. universities financially stable, adding that cutting the number of Chinese students in half would cripple the system.

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As America First as it gets.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (UJWr0)

386 Hunter Biden SHOCKS Democrat Establishment, Denounces Joe Biden’s Open Border and Says America Should NOT Prioritize Illegal Immigrants

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 01:17 PM (WQ6sk)

The Morning Report — 12/23/25

Good morning kids. It's Christmas eve EVE, and so with that in mind I'm going to try to keep the editorials through the end of the week a bit shorter if at all possible, breaking and/or critical news items deserving of further exploration notwithstanding.

And away we go. I don't claim to be an expert on defense issues, but this move on the part of President Trump just makes no sense to me.

President Donald J. Trump has revealed plans for the U.S. Navy to develop a new line of “Trump-class” battleships, starting with the construction of two vessels. The America First leader shared the news from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he is vacationing over the holidays, joined by War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan. Trump described the vessels as components of a new “Golden Fleet,” with ambitions to produce up to 25 such battleships. He stated that these would be the “largest we’ve ever built.”“They will have 100 times the force, the power, and there’s never been anything like these ships,” Trump said. “We envision that these two ships will be the first of a whole new class of battleships that will be produced in the years to come.”The lead vessel in the class will bear the name USS Defiant. This development follows shortly after the Navy abandoned efforts to develop a different, smaller warship due to escalating expenses and extended timelines.

Hey, I ain't no Alfred Thayer Mahan but in the immortal words of Isoroku Yamamoto via Toshiro Mifune "R-U-F-K-M?! don't bogart the wasabi, Nagumo!"

Will dressing up like Teddy Roosevelt and running up a White House stairway as if it were San Juan Hill (watch Arsenic & Old Lace), while deploying a great white, er Golden, fleet really deter Xi and the Chi-Coms? Will it help get out the vote 11 months from now? Maybe in Newport News or Pascagoula (assuming they still build ships there?).

Meanwhile in the all American town of Lawrence, Massachusetts:

Mayor Brian DePena appeared in court on Friday, where he required a translator to participate in proceedings at a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission proceeding on Friday.
The hearing concerned former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro, a political ally of DePena, who was stripped of his policing credentials following an improper police chase. Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check . . . DePena testified on Castro’s behalf during the commission proceeding, but it was the mayor’s request to use a translator that drew significant attention. . . DePena is a native of the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York in the early 1980s before settling in Lawrence in 1989. Over 80 percent of the city’s population is now Hispanic, according to the US Census.

The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English. Forget illegal immigration, this fool is a Legal Immigrant. both my parents' families (my father's side escaping the pogroms of Ukraine at the turn of he last century and my mother's side barely surviving the death camps of the Nazis,) came here to embrace and become fully American. Initially they barely spoke English but quickly learned enough to find work and support families while instilling the ideals and culture of this ountry on their children.

That an illiterate unassimilated foreigner was elected to public office by an equally alien electorate in our country is among if not its greatest failings in its history.

Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am.

And Mike Pence and George Conway can go pump each other.

And more "Walzing Muh shill dough" this time up in Maine. Funny how these desert dwellers all wind up living here in states that can get about as cold as the Arctic Circle.

But best not talk about it because that can be very unhealthy.

And speaking of health, Bernie Sanders is cancer, so all he's doing here is protecting his own. But you young people go out and pimp socialism as the last best hope for humanity:

Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities.
Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies.
His complaint: the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, named for a teen cancer patient who died while advocating for its passage, is a pared-down version of a previous package that included other health-care measures as well, including funding for community health centers.
Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
Yet without his vote, it didn’t win unanimous backing, so it’ll now have to make its way through a much more arduous procedural process when Congress reconvenes next year. . .Pray it doesn’t cost the lives of any kids who could’ve benefited. But make no mistake: This is super-villain behavior, as more rational lawmakers pointed out.
Right-wing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who also supports funding community health centers, fumed: “To say that you’re not going to give a chance for children to have a cure for cancer if you don’t get what you want” is “selfish” and “tragic.” Amen to that.

Up yours NY Post for describing Bill Cassidy as "Right Wing," which by doing that is essentially saying Nazi/fascist/racist etc, ad nauseum One day, if Bernie and Mamdani take over, you can do like they do in England when you have a toothache. Make like Moe howard did to Curly, and tie one end of a string to your rotten tooth and the other to a doorknob.

Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.

Just wait until we have "Free" healthcare here and free housing, education and food like every other "civilized nation" such as Cuba does as I have seen posted too many times by a bevy of scumbag leftists on Twitter and elsewhere. Yeah, life is such a paradise in Havana and Pyongyang but you insist on staying here in evil and illegitimate America.

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1 Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check
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Coulda been lost in translation. Literally. That isn't an excuse, but it *is* a potential explanation.

Unreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:13 AM (avHHk)

2 Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
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If it depends on one vote, it isn't "teed up to pass easily," it's a squeaker.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (avHHk)

3 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (gbOdA)

4 Top 5! yAy!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (lXoJ5)

5 Just wait until we have "Free" healthcare here and free housing, education and food like every other "civilized nation" such as Cuba does
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It'll be great living in a slave state, comrade!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (avHHk)

6 I don't understand building a bunch of battleships. It is possible that aircraft carriers are obsolete in a world of highly-effective long-range munitions (missiles) on one side and increasingly effective short-range swarm weapons (drones) on the other, but if that's the case then how are battleships not?

Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)

7 Whoa. I got a first AND it was on-topic?

I have the vapors. I need to go lie down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)

8 That an illiterate unassimilated foreigner was elected to public office by an equally alien electorate in our country is among if not its greatest failings in its history.

One of my mom's dearest friends moved to CA from Peru with her husband and children with little more than the clothes on their backs. They learned English through immersion and she was a nurse. She went off on one patient who asked for a translator and had been living in the country for 25 years.

Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)

9 Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)
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There is an excuse. The behavior was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and rewarded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:19 AM (avHHk)

10 The behavior was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and rewarded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)

11 And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)
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Oh yes. Quite sinister.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (avHHk)

12 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (NwnyJ)

13
*stomps in*

Well! How long has this party been going on?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd)

14 The Great White Fleet 2:Cruise Missile Boogaloo...

The new BB's will be loaded with cruise missiles, EW gear and SEAL/Marine Raider types so if one is parked off shore of some tin horn dictator or New York City, some shitheads are gonna die. Sends a message to the fuzzy wuzzies to behave or else.

I like it.

Posted by: Zombie Admiral Robley Evans at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (m8zKa)

15 Well! How long has this party been going on?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

0710 according to JJ.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (lXoJ5)

16 The troll comment modification is on point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (avHHk)

17
And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)

Eh, I had a grandmother who could only speak heavily-accented and rather broken English to the end of her life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:24 AM (tgvbd)

18 "Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am."

I'll be even more shocked if something happens.

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at December 23, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

19 Eh, I had a grandmother who could only speak heavily-accented and rather broken English to the end of her life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

And she still tried. I'm also willing to bet that she could read and write as well even if it wasn't that high level.

But no; my ire is directed at the people who come here and demand we give them everything in their language. No other country in the world is so accommodating.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:26 AM (lXoJ5)

20 Eh, I had a grandmother who could only speak heavily-accented and rather broken English to the end of her life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:24 AM (tgvbd)
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Sure. It happened all the time. Language is hard, and English is particularly hard. It's amazing that *anyone* can speak it. Some There have always been immigrants who couldn't make the transition.

But they also didn't run for - or get elected to - office or have that condition act as a ticket to special treatment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (avHHk)

21 Brown University custodian says he reported gunman to officials over a DOZEN times prior to the deadly mass shooting

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (GITLP)

22 A recent investigation by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) found that Milwaukee County’s “Equity Index” is mostly based on a tool promoted by the Trump administration. The tool is called the “Social Vulnerability Index,” or SVI, run by the Centers for Disease Control.

The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about industrial disease
There's panic on the switchboard, tongues in knots
Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots
Some blame the management, some the employees
And everybody knows it's the industrial disease

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

23 The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English.

DePena certainly can speak English. I know this, as Lawrence is my home town.

He chose not to, in order to show solidarity with the majority-Hispanic Lawrence population. The number of whites left there is miniscule to non-existent.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (ufSfZ)

24 There's something to be said for a floating 16" (or whatever) artillery platform. Missiles have some disadvantages after all.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (vHpoE)

25 The US GDP, when accounting for inflation, was actually higher in 1964 than it is today, and the population then was under 200 million, as opposed to 325 million today. That means the produce per person is down markedly since 1964.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:28 AM (Da7Vv)

26 POLITICO
@politico
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Dec 21
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation. http://dlvr.it/TPxcHc

… There was an article somewhere that said the failed polygraph test was a fake and that a number of CISA employees were trying to make the director look bad.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:28 AM (GITLP)

27 DePena certainly can speak English. I know this, as Lawrence is my home town.

He chose not to, in order to show solidarity with the majority-Hispanic Lawrence population. The number of whites left there is miniscule to non-existent.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (ufSfZ)
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Which is worse? A mayor who can't speak English, or a mayor who *pretends* not to as a publicity stunt that will play to his core constituencies or people who can't speak English and hive-mind leftists who will get warm fuzzies over how "diverse" the whole affair is?

I actually don't know. I'm thinking about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (avHHk)

28 This is INSANE 🚨 Mike Benz does through Jeffrey Epstein documents

“Jeffrey Epstein negotiated the f*cking contract to move the CIA’s proprietary airliner, Southern Air Transport, which was busted running drugs and guns during Iran-Contra”

“He (Epstein) personally was the authorized signatory on the deal with Southern Air Transport to move it to a military base in Columbus, Ohio, to service the Limited

Hey, any of you guys got any bright ideas about how you would go about in 1994, convincing the Central Intelligence Agency to move its proprietary CIA airline used for covert operations, based in Miami, to f*cking up and move its entire operation to f*cking Columbus, Ohio, just to service your personal company instead of the CIA?

What do you think he cold called the CIA? You think he just schmoozed the CIA? Or is it because he was handling Khashoggi’s money during Iran-Contra that purchased the guns that Southern Air Transport a decade earlier was moving?

Adnan Khashoggi is the notorious Saudi Arabian billionaire arms dealer and international middleman. He was one of the world’s most prominent arms brokers in the 1970s and 1980s, facilitating massive deals.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (GITLP)

29 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

30 I have met a few people that spoke heavily accented English but were born here. The family spoke the old country exclusively around the house, and the neighborhood was about the same.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (gm9Sb)

31 How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around

Arrests.

Prosecutions.

Jail.

Without those, Trump can horse-fuck, as far as I am concerned. I want revenge.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (ufSfZ)

32 The "mayor" is full of refried beans. If he had a winning Powerball ticket and needed to speak Spanglish to collect he would.

Just another 3rd world bullshit artist.

Posted by: A Taco Is A Taco Until It Aint at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (m8zKa)

33 "We support LGBTQ rights fully. This has nothing to do with identity,” Dustin Bailey told the Court. ”Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless. In this case, it acted as an accelerant, intensifying instability, impairing judgment, and compounding risk.”

Uhhh, d'oh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (PFs9e)

34 🎤 MIC DROP in the Senate.

Chris Briggs didn’t hold back:

“This is my first time ever sitting in front of the Senate. So let me ask something simple. If Obamacare has never hurt anyone and it’s supposedly such an amazing plan… why aren’t you all enrolled in it?”

Silence.

Classic Washington move.
Rules for the public.
Exemptions for themselves.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (GITLP)

35 I suspect the “Trump Class Battleship” is designed to be resistant to swarms of lightweight drones, rather than resistant to a big Soviet torpedo under the keel?

My first thought was a great quote from the movie “Southern Comfort”, said in a heavy Cajun accent: “We live here; don’t f—k with us! “

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (1FEc1)

36 BREAKING 🅱️

Hunter Biden reveals that he’s $15 MILLION in debt…

Snorted it all.

… of course, we all knew

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:32 AM (GITLP)

37 "After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election."

It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: Brian Kemp at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

38 "Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM"

Actually they're repurposed Coast Guard vessels.
But forget it... he's rolling.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

39 > President Donald J. Trump has revealed plans for the U.S. Navy to develop a new line of “Trump-class” battleships, starting with the construction of two vessels.
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Two thoughts on this:
1. It's ego. He'll never have a carrier named for him, or any other warship. It'll take a decade just to get the design formalized before any steel is cut. There will be no steel cut for a "Trump" class "battleship. Bet on it.

2. There is actually a case to be made for what the Navy has referred to as an "Arsenal Ship." A battleship-like vessel loaded with drones, missiles of every kind, advanced electronic counter measures, etc. It would be extremely useful in high threat environments like China/Taiwan, the Middle East and so on.

For reference on shipbuilding; the Navy's been hemming and hawing over a new Frigate, canceled it and then decided to use a Coast Guard design for it. For a decade.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (NwnyJ)

40 28 Which is worse? A mayor who can't speak English, or a mayor who *pretends* not to as a publicity stunt that will play to his core constituencies or people who can't speak English and hive-mind leftists who will get warm fuzzies over how "diverse" the whole affair is?

I actually don't know. I'm thinking about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (avHHk)

Publicity Stunt? Or a show of conquest?

Posted by: XTC at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (6Uni8)

41 🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration is in talks with former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden for a TOTAL AND COMPLETE PARDON as well as Snowden’s return to The United States. These talks are reportedly being led by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a long time advocate and supporter of clemency for Snowden, who EXPOSED the fact that the NSA has been secretly spying on the communications of American citizens WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE FOR DECADES after the passage of The Patriot Act in the post 9/11 era. Edward Snowden is not a traitor… He is an American hero and a patriot who revealed the treasonous activity that our government has been engaging in against us in blatant violation of our 4th Amendment rights. Tens of millions of us are totally in support of this… This would be perhaps President Trump’s greatest act of clemency of all-time. PARDON SNOWDEN AND BRING HIM HOME NOW!

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (GITLP)

42 I recommend a news category for any Somali related news.

'I want them the hell out of here. NOW!'

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (fd80v)

43 Bernie Sanders is blocking cancer treatment for kids for his own selfish reasons

If the GOP weren't composed of a bunch of ass-kissing nickelfuckers, they would be blasting out Sanders' office and (multiple) home telephone numbers, telling parents who have cancer-stricken kids to burn up his phone lines and drive the bastard to suicide.

But that's not who we are.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (ufSfZ)

44 31 I have met a few people that spoke heavily accented English but were born here. The family spoke the old country exclusively around the house, and the neighborhood was about the same.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (gm9Sb)

Speak whatever language you want in your home or in a conversation to a fellow countryman, but live and think as an American if you came here and are a citizen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (x0n13)

45 Maybe they should make the Brown custodian the President instead of the leftist woman dope they have now. He sounds like he would be an improvement over her. He sees things, doesn't ignore them and says speaks up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (PFs9e)

46 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (RMWOZ)

47 Why Southern States Are Outperforming Others in Education

Department of Education was seen seething over this. I'm sure that they will say that maintaining order in a classroom is a form of child abuse.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (lXoJ5)

48 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (CA6zO)

49 Sorry President Trump, the day of the battleship ended Dec 7, 1941, when the Japanese proved how vulnerable they were to air attack. What is next? Marching our troops out in Phalanx formation to fight our enemy's drone swarms, while we are using spears and armor? Hey, spears don't have to be reloaded.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (Da7Vv)

50 Whoa. I got a first AND it was on-topic?

I have the vapors. I need to go lie down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)
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This sort of thing just isn't done around here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (CA6zO)

51 I'm fast and I'm lean and gosh darn it all I'm smart too!

Not a big clusterfuck like everyone says, but flexible.

Posted by: Littoral Combat Ship at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (m8zKa)

52 USS Defiant? Uh Oh.
In WWII, the Brits tried a (sort-of) fighter plane named the defiant. It was loaded down with a ball turret with machine guns, and was a miserable failure.

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (1FEc1)

53 The only Democrat in the Minnesota House of Representatives that voted against giving free healthcare to illegals was murdered afterwards.

Weird.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (GITLP)

54 Department of Education was seen seething over this. I'm sure that they will say that maintaining order in a classroom is a form of child abuse.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (lXoJ5)
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I am sure. I am sure that Mississippi telling "educators" to drop the official party line crap and grind on phonics the old-fashioned way or else - and the resultant skyrocketing literacy rate - is having the same effect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:38 AM (avHHk)

55 Somali ‘Medicaid Mogul’ Accused of Fraud, Family Allegedly Put Bounty on Reporter.

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I don't watch any news and haven't for decades. Is it safe to assume none of this massive fraud is being reported on by the nat'l networks, and or state news reporters in MN?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 07:38 AM (qBdHI)

56 50 Sorry President Trump, the day of the battleship ended Dec 7, 1941, when the Japanese proved how vulnerable they were to air attack. What is next? Marching our troops out in Phalanx formation to fight our enemy's drone swarms, while we are using spears and armor? Hey, spears don't have to be reloaded.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (Da7Vv)

Though not a battleship, I was thinking USS Cole.

And those Argentinian Exorcist missiles from the Falklands. And the Chi-Coms are developing all sorts of hypersonic ones now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)

57 Former CIA Director John Brennan's lawyers have taken the extraordinary step of confirming their client is a "target" of a criminal grand jury investigation in Florida and are asking the chief federal judge in Miami to stop the proceedings on the grounds that the Justice Department is "judge shopping."

Wainstein and Davis revealed they have been informed by U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quinones in Miami that the grand jury is investigating Brennan's role in the 2016-27 Russia collusion probe that has since been discredited, including a CIA assessment that Russian president Vladimir Putin tried to help Trump win the 2016 election.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (GITLP)

58 I am sure that Mississippi telling "educators" to drop the official party line crap and grind on phonics the old-fashioned way or else - and the resultant skyrocketing literacy rate - is having the same effect.

Did you happen to see the John Stossel video on this? There was a clip of a child trying to sound a word out and the teacher said "Stop it! Why are you doing that?"

I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (lXoJ5)

59 Video proof that DePena can speak English if he wants to:

https://tinyurl.com/4j3vby2s

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (ufSfZ)

60 53 USS Defiant? Uh Oh.
In WWII, the Brits tried a (sort-of) fighter plane named the defiant. It was loaded down with a ball turret with machine guns, and was a miserable failure.
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (1FEc1)

"PFFT!!!"

Star Fleet Commodore Matt Decker and the planet killer!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:41 AM (x0n13)

61 If anybody has commenting privileges at Daily Wire, you might want to forward that video to them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:42 AM (ufSfZ)

62 Trump's romance with early 20th century weapons of war is quaint, amusing and complete bullshit.

But its Excessmass and the MIC needs some promises of fat bonuses and vectors for grift.

If the US isn't going to pissing away trillions around the globe in kinetic "nation-building" where the elites can easily plunder the US treasury and four generations beyond, then it has to be through this massive industrialization Renaissance where the vast majority of the population is too lazy, stupid, drug addled and entitled to actually push away from the liquor cabinet and game console, slip into work boots and pick up a welding torch.

Maybe Trump had his first egg nog. Who knows?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:42 AM (a4flb)

63 Departments don't seethe.
People do.
Next question.

Posted by: In the spirit of Donald Rumsfeld at December 23, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)

64 And those Argentinian Exorcist missiles from the Falklands. And the Chi-Coms are developing all sorts of hypersonic ones now.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)
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Exocet missiles

An Exorcist missile is after Linda Blair eats Taco Bell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (CA6zO)

65 57 The Navy should just do what it does best, submarines. Looking back at WW2, if you know who would have scrapped the idea of big surface stuff (Bismarck, Tirpitz, Graf Spee, Graf Zeppelin) and devoted that material and manpower to U boats, Doenitz might have continued the "Happy Days" with bad results for the allies.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (gm9Sb)

66 Did you happen to see the John Stossel video on this? There was a clip of a child trying to sound a word out and the teacher said "Stop it! Why are you doing that?"

I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (lXoJ5)
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"identify it as a 'sight word' and you'll just know what it is!"

That's a short-cut. Some kids can learn that way. Many cannot. Almost everyone will get there eventually, and learning phonics doesn't preclude it - but can enable it.

There's a reason why a slightly tarted up 19th-century teaching methodology was able to make major cash in the 90s courtesy of desperate parents who's kids were failing to learn to read in school - and things were *much* better then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (avHHk)

67 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Here is a mellow introduction to the day.
This is the Stranglers Golden Brown with A/I use of David Brubeck's Take Five video and no funky harpsichord. https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

68 An Exorcist missile is after Linda Blair eats Taco Bell.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (CA6zO)
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What a visual.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:45 AM (avHHk)

69 One of my mom's dearest friends moved to CA from Peru with her husband and children with little more than the clothes on their backs. They learned English through immersion and she was a nurse. She went off on one patient who asked for a translator and had been living in the country for 25 years.

Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM

It is extremely common though. Last year a tornado went through the DFW metroplex and they had a witness on the TV for an interview. She had been in the US for over 30 years and still spoke zero english. We have dozens of illegals commit DUI's in our area every year and without fail the majority of them require a translator in court.

We as a society enable these people and their laziness.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (0N4FZ)

70 That's a short-cut. Some kids can learn that way.

That's the problem. The Powers That Be™ get it in their head that there is only one true path and any deviation from it has to be punished.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (lXoJ5)

71 65 And those Argentinian Exorcist missiles from the Falklands. And the Chi-Coms are developing all sorts of hypersonic ones now.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)
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Exocet missiles

An Exorcist missile is after Linda Blair eats Taco Bell.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (CA6zO)

Yes, I know. But that's what I called them. A Linda Blair Missile looks like a Broomstick like from the film where she was in a girl's reformatory, IYKWIM.

The Exorcist Missile spits pea soup

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (x0n13)

72 Jeez talk about visuals.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:47 AM (CA6zO)

73 Checking out of our rental this morning. St. Croix has been amazing. On our way to the airport we are going to stop at the beach where the final scene of Shawshank Redemption was shot.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 23, 2025 07:48 AM (O6icp)

74 68 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Here is a mellow introduction to the day.
This is the Stranglers Golden Brown with A/I use of David Brubeck's Take Five video and no funky harpsichord. https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

Big fan of Brubeck. Saw him twice, about two years before he passed. And saw the Stranglers when they first came to the States around 1978. I like that harpsichord!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:49 AM (x0n13)

75 I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.

I really like that metaphor, but we need to update them to meet the culture of today. It beats "....rented mule" and "...red headed step child".

a couple examples:

• Beat that teacher like a Muslim wife.
• Beat that teacher like I was a crack-head on a bus

I tjhink more people would understand the imagery.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:49 AM (a4flb)

76 I myself was fooled by posting one of the VDH deepfake videos here in the comments.

Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

As many of you know, in the last few weeks a multitude of AI-fake videos of me have appeared on the Internet. Many of them express views that are not mine and often in slightly speeded-up fashion with different vocal intonations.

https://tinyurl.com/pm87bt6f

I asked Grok for some additional info:

https://tinyurl.com/4trbjvjr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 07:49 AM (KgVf3)

77 That's the problem. The Powers That Be™ get it in their head that there is only one true path and any deviation from it has to be punished.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (lXoJ5)
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And much if it is based on false empiricism or misplaced causality, but then there is no room to make changes because the Word is the Law as soon as it is uttered.

Bright kids - defined in this case as "kids who are good at reading" - pick up "whole word" reading fairly early. So then the false causality creeps in through the conclusion that if bright kids read whole words rather than letter sounds, then teaching whole words rather than letter sounds will close the gap and improve achievement by using the winning method observed in nature.

That is, essentially, the premise behind whole word instruction methods. Except that it is a false premise. The brighter the kid, the faster he gets there on his own from the common basis of phonics (with the possible exception of spontaneous readers who require no instruction at all). You can't short-cut it. But no amount of failure will make a bureaucracy change course. The masters of the universe in charge must never be wrong about anything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:51 AM (avHHk)

78 Powerball is at $1.7 billion. Yowsa, that's some serious cash.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

79 Powerball is at $1.7 billion. Yowsa, that's some serious cash.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 07:51 AM (qBdHI)
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I'd take the annuity and retire immediately.

But I don't play. The odds of winning round comfortably to zero. I'm not above some fantasy, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:52 AM (avHHk)

80 Happy Festivus!

Posted by: For the rest of us at December 23, 2025 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)

81 If you have cancer, how do you have health for which to care?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (Wv0GD)

82
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (tljrc)

83 That's a short-cut. Some kids can learn that way. Many cannot. Almost everyone will get there eventually, and learning phonics doesn't preclude it - but can enable it.

Didn't you make a comment or article at one time where the education cartel, desperate, looked at successful children and decided to mimic their patterns and that is where "look say" came in?

That is, the cartels looked at a finished product and didn't care to see how that student got to the point of being able to use short-cuts for the majority of words?

Still phonics is critical when encountering new words and languages.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

84 You can't lose if you don't play.

Posted by: Stuff your grandfather says at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)

85 After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election. Who knows where this will end? Perhaps Pennsylvania will someday admit that it had 121,000 more 2020 ballots than voters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

86 Looks like I'm picking up a few lottery tickets.

Disclaimer: I only play when it gets that high. And it's all for fun.

I tjhink more people would understand the imagery.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I think our Latinx brothers and sisters recognize the pinata metaphor though. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (lXoJ5)

87 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

88 A cheerful good morning to all. Late start at the gym today, due to laziness

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (M4ySl)

89 If you have cancer, how do you have health for which to care?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (Wv0GD)
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Snark aside, this *is* one of my pet peeves in modern nomenclature. There is no "health care" or "health insurance." The latter is actually impossible.

There is medicine, and medical insurance to pay for it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (avHHk)

90 Mornin’, All. Happy Christmas Eve Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (77rzZ)

91 I have a real problem with the goings on in Lawrence, MA. See, my mother’s first language was German. So when she went to school she entered a bilingual education program—

Oh, I’m just kidding, the school told her “that’s really too bad, go learn English” and she had to learn it through full brutal immersion.

I can’t imagine wanting to come here and not wanting to learn the customs, language and traditions of this country if you intend to remain here as a legal immigrant. But many Americans ache for America to have its own little Quebec, only in Spanish, not French.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (Wv0GD)

92 What does a Powerball ticket cost these days? Around $5 or so. I think my wife plays (buys a ticket) when it's up around $1B until someone wins.

Bet it's some asshole in CA.

It's always some asshole there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (NwnyJ)

93 Hadrian the Seventh

I liked your Roman Emperor entrance to a thread. But it reminded me of Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and the Fractured Fairy Tales intro.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

94 Chris Briggs didn’t hold back:

“This is my first time ever sitting in front of the Senate. So let me ask something simple. If Obamacare has never hurt anyone and it’s supposedly such an amazing plan… why aren’t you all enrolled in it?”
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Ok. He is not going to be invited back.

Posted by: clarence at December 23, 2025 07:58 AM (FVUBu)

95 The lead vessel in the class will bear the name USS Defiant.

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This is how I imagine the scene in Star Trek: First Contact would go:

Trump: "The defiant, is she safe?"

Picard: "She's the biggest ship ever. No ship is more big and more beautiful!"

Trump: "Come now, Captain Picard, surely you're exaggerating."

Picard: "No, it's true! She so big and so beautiful, not even the Borg want to go against her!"

Trump: "Wow, that's amazing. Thank you for that, Captain Picard. You are the greatest captain in Starfleet, I've always said that."

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (EES2L)

96 San Franpsycho

How long was your power out?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

97 ... That is, the cartels looked at a finished product and didn't care to see how that student got to the point of being able to use short-cuts for the majority of words?

Still phonics is critical when encountering new words and languages.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)
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Ace did, IIRC. But it's been obvious for a long time. The people who come up with the curricula are pretty clear about it. "The brightest kids read whole words, so we'll teach whole words and short-cut boring and tedious instruction and improve results" or "the brightest kids do ten-centric mental arithmetic and come up with accurate results very quickly, so we'll ignore the arithmetic drills and explaining commutative properties and jump right to the end save a bunch of boring and tedious instruction and improve results."

They are very clear about being cargo-cultists, and then their rules become permanent because they're expert public servants who are by definition infallible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (avHHk)

98 It seems no one won? I may now need to invest.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (M4ySl)

99 Bet it's some asshole in CA.

It's always some asshole there.

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Ha, I say the same thing to Mr. Black. It's always someone in CA who wins these mega pots.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

100 JJ, why are you questioning the new battleships? Sounds like a good thing to me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (77rzZ)

101 Heritage Foundation Scholars Jump to Mike Pence’s Group in ‘Reorganization of the Conservative Movement’

Translation:
We found better grift.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

102 The mass defection comes in the wake of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s video defense of Tucker Carlson
Heritage Foundation Scholars Jump to Mike Pence’s Group in ‘Reorganization of the Conservative Movement’

Doesn't sound like a smart move to me. Jumping from one idiot to another.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (uQesX)

103 Regarding Bernie Sanders deliberately blocking that bill:

More proof that communists aren't people.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:02 AM (lXoJ5)

104 Zohran Mamdani to Be Sworn In by Bernie Sanders, NY AG Letitia James

So an Arab, a Jew, and a

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

105 Mike Pence is part of a "movement" to reorganize conservatism. Bless his heart. I think his ship has sailed. We're done with Bush-style GOPe types.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

106 After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election. Who knows where this will end? Perhaps Pennsylvania will someday admit that it had 121,000 more 2020 ballots than voters.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)
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Despite the Georgia admission of fraud and the obvious fraud in Pennsylvania, Democrats will continue to stubbornly claim there was no fraud at all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:03 AM (M4ySl)

107 Speak whatever language you want in your home or in a conversation to a fellow countryman, but live and think as an American if you came here and are a citizen.

Do you also see a connection in language and thinking?

It isn't just word substitutions and arranging subjects and verbs, and a bit more than idioms, but language has culture and thought patterns built in.

Like they say that the Greeks didn't "see" blue because they didn't have an English word equivalent. What is correct to say is that instead of focusing on hue categories they saw lightness, darkness, texture and emotional qualities.

So Homer would characterize the skies as "of bronze" not because of its hue category, but because it appeared dazzling, bright and polished like a shining shield.

Our language does effect how we think and vice versa.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)

108 I found out yesterday that Ed Meese is still alive. He’s got an org that is taking some of the Heritage folks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

109 Powerball is at $1.7 billion. Yowsa, that's some serious cash.

I would actually underwrite the cost of a Moron Meet-Up if I won.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (ufSfZ)

110 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (lEejK)

111 Good morning Horde. Thx JJ, hope you are well
The district where Conway, Schlossberg and Kasky amongst others according to Cook Report is the most Dem district bin the country at D+33. Combine that with Democrat Socialist Brad Lander taking on incumbent Dan Goldman in his district leads me to believe their isn't enough popcorn in the world to eat whole watching these horror shows

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (MoRvC)

112 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 23, 2025 08:05 AM (Uajlr)

113 Funny, but Hunter Biden isn't on any executive boards anymore.

Posted by: Didja notice? at December 23, 2025 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

114 I have a real problem with the goings on in Lawrence, MA. See, my mother’s first language was German. So when she went to school she entered a bilingual education program—

Lawrence actually used to have a German school to help immigrant children acclimate to America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:05 AM (ufSfZ)

115 "one" generation? AYFKM?

the first time I was turned down for a job because I was a white male was in fucking 1977.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2025 08:06 AM (Cjt/F)

116 I don't understand building a bunch of battleships. It is possible that aircraft carriers are obsolete in a world of highly-effective long-range munitions (missiles) on one side and increasingly effective short-range swarm weapons (drones) on the other, but if that's the case then how are battleships not?

Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)

Most modern warships are very lightly armored. This allows attacking them with smaller munitions. A more heavily armored ship would have - some - protection from that.

It's also the case that an artillery shore bombardment is both cheaper, and safer (from the standpoint of our personnel) than air assault into unreduced defenses.

Do they make sense? Possibly not, but I don't think the idea is as crazy as people think from the start.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

117 According to OECD data, the U.K. has 49 dentists per 100,000 inhabitants — the lowest rate among G7 countries.

hahahaha

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

118 The Stooges happened to be working in the office of Dr I. B. Yankum when a desperate patient came in the office in pain. They proceeded to "help" the patient.

Posted by: Dentally Retarded at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (oftw2)

119 I found out yesterday that Ed Meese is still alive. He’s got an org that is taking some of the Heritage folks.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

Wow… a member of Reagan’s first cabinet still with us. I didn’t know that…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (YobFY)

120 "Funny, but Hunter Biden isn't on any executive boards anymore.
Posted by: Didja notice?"

He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

121 Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)
++++
There is an excuse. The behavior was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and rewarded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:19 AM (avHHk)

They do not consider themselves to be Americans and have no desire to become one. They want the money. They may be willing to work but they'll happily take whatever we're stupid enough to just hand them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

122 Am I the only one that doesn't think Trump ever intends the Battleships to be built? I think he fabricated a point for concession in a later negotiation. Whether it's Xi or a budget deal, He'll trade that for something down the road.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (pIfcn)

123 After Bernie swears in Mandani he can go to Crown Heights and explain why pogroms are actually good for the great communist future

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (MoRvC)

124 >POTUS Unveils Plans for ‘Golden Fleet’ of ‘Trump-Class’ Battleships.
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He does like to put his name on things

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (ZxPkt)

125 ... Our language does effect how we think and vice versa.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)
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Orwell understood that. For as great and illustrative as "1984" was, the most valuable part of the book was tacked on to the end. After the main story, there is an appendix called "The Principles of Newspeak."

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. ... Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (avHHk)

126 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Universal truth at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

127 There was a clip of a child trying to sound a word out and the teacher said "Stop it! Why are you doing that?"

I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (lXoJ5)
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"identify it as a 'sight word' and you'll just know what it is!"

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Don't kids learn both ways?

Sight words are important.

So is learning to sound things out.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (sX1BW)

128 Lefties are all atwitter over the 60 Minutes story Bari Weiss criticized as poorly done. Suddenly, they are worried about "censorship!", and its all they are talking about.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (du1Vq)

129 Another crazy animal slams their car into people at a Christmas gathering. This time in the Netherlands. Notice the AP's reporting. "A car" did the ramming. Of course, no details on the car rammer.

https://shorturl.at/OuydS

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

130 Language is hard, and English is particularly hard. It's amazing that *anyone* can speak it. Some There have always been immigrants who couldn't make the transition.

We have entire school districts dedicated to the promise of native born children never learning English.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

131 120 He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM

This doesn’t speak well for his family. They don’t have the generational wealth of the Clintons or the Obamas. Why is that? They grifted just as hard, and in an even dirtier, slimier way. Where is the money? Is it because his dad is nothing more than a charecature of a used car salesman and couldn’t even grift right despite getting to be president?

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (OoFl2)

132 31 How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around

Arrests.
Prosecutions.
Jail.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (ufSfZ)

True. I'm not sure he understands this.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (WHfpM)

133 Am I the only one that doesn't think Trump ever intends the Battleships to be built? I think he fabricated a point for concession in a later negotiation. Whether it's Xi or a budget deal, He'll trade that for something down the road.

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I look at it this way. At least we are talking about building ships.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (sX1BW)

134 Ed Meese was born in 1931. So he’s 94.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (77rzZ)

135 I can totally believe you were fished in by the battleship comments. Very on brand.

After all it was Sun Tzu who said: Let you enemies know what your plans are.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (cS1cw)

136 Mommy, will I be getting a present from daddy or PopPop this year?

Posted by: Navy Joan Biden at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (2Ez/1)

137 Don't kids learn both ways?

Sight words are important.

So is learning to sound things out.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (sX1BW)
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Some do. Everyone can learn phonics. The kids who figure out "sight words" more quickly do away with phonics - absent a completely new word, or figuring out a foreign word - more quickly. But the education system has demonstrated for decades that skipping phonics does not work as well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (avHHk)

138 >>Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am.

You don't say.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (viF8m)

139 What does a Powerball ticket cost these days? Around $5 or so. I think my wife plays (buys a ticket) when it's up around $1B until someone wins.

Bet it's some asshole in CA.

It's always some asshole there.

Just remember, for every Powerball winner, there are over 150,000 new cancer cases diagnosed, or 1000 people die in a vehicle crash.

That is, you are 150,000 times more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than win a single lottery, or 1000 times more likely to die in a car crash on the same day they pull a winning powerball.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

140
Don't kids learn both ways?

Sight words are important.

So is learning to sound things out.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (sX1BW)

Depends on the kid. But Mississippi jumped up in school ratings by returning to phonics.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (OoFl2)

141 The "Trump" warship is an other chance for the US Navy ship-building force to screw up.

That inner coterie of "experts" (the Engineering Duty Officers) could not even build a frigate with a proven Italian design.

FWIW, calling a warship a Battleship is a noob mistake.

Next, the US lacks the industrial ability to make and build a ship with the armor that was the defining characteristic of true Battleships and Heavy Cruisers of the WWI to WWII era.

A large ship filled with missiles, the Arsenal design, has been studied for decades. Manning that ship is a problem.

There is some utility with a large ship, which makes any drone hit less of an issue. But in an era of autonomous drones and keel-busting torpedoes, a number of smaller ships, like the O.H. Perry design of frigates, or the unbuilt Constitution class frigate, Japaneses AIP designed submarines, or versions of Israeli patrol boats would make more sense.

The inner US Navy culture is for larger ships. In a world filled with ocean, larger ships have more range.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

142 Also, USS Defiant is odd

what are we defying?

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)

143 It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. ...

I forget where I read it - it was in an analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Orwell's writing of it - but one author has speculated that Orwell's use of the past tense when talking about Newspeak in the appendix was a subtle hint to the reader that, after all, the Party was defeated in the end.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (ufSfZ)

144 "They grifted just as hard, and in an even dirtier, slimier way. Where is the money?"

Look up here.

Posted by: Hunter's nose at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)

145 7 Whoa. I got a first AND it was on-topic?

I have the vapors. I need to go lie down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Stop making us look bad.

Posted by: Off-Topic Otto at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (oftw2)

146 128 Lefties are all atwitter over the 60 Minutes story Bari Weiss criticized as poorly done. Suddenly, they are worried about "censorship!", and its all they are talking about.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (du1Vq)

She needs to say it's a sloppily written hit piece that fails the most basic standard of professional journalism and the surpassing responsibility of a major network. She won't.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (WHfpM)

147 119 Wow… a member of Reagan’s first cabinet still with us. I didn’t know that…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (YobFY)

Old Yeller Mark Levin is still around. Not a cabinet-level guy but was a Meese underling.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)

148 I'd take the annuity and retire immediately.

But I don't play. The odds of winning round comfortably to zero. I'm not above some fantasy, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:52 AM (avHHk)

Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (uQesX)

149 "Funny, but Hunter Biden isn't on any executive boards anymore.
Posted by: Didja notice?"

He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?
Posted by: fd

Steal billions. Get dementia. Forget where you put it.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (lEejK)

150 J.J. Sefton

Thank you so much for all you do. And Happy Birthday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

151 I’m in favor of more naval power. Is Trump’s “golden fleet” the right approach I have no idea…. But naval superiority is a must-have for the US

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (YobFY)

152 Late-Night Hosts Go Silent on Massive Minnesota Fraud

Well duh!
Pakis fuck thousands of little girls in England because... they can.
Same with Simoleans and their fraud.
The Hispanics probably do 5X more fraud in California.

And DEI is built into every system to cover all of this over with

Diversity.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

153 *Steal billions. Get dementia. Forget where you put it.*

I'm an old man. I was confused.

Posted by: Uncle Leo at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

154 He says his family has no "generational wealth".

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Why should his family have any generational wealth? They have been "public servants" their entire lives. They have built and created nothing.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (sX1BW)

155 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (uQesX)
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I thought it was the opposite. Total annuity value is usually much greater than lump-sum, though it does depend on how long you live. Maybe tax implications have changed or Powerball works differently from state lotteries.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (avHHk)

156 I suspect the “Trump Class Battleship” is designed to be resistant to swarms of lightweight drones, rather than resistant to a big Soviet torpedo under the keel?

My first thought was a great quote from the movie “Southern Comfort”, said in a heavy Cajun accent: “We live here; don’t f—k with us! “
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (1FEc1)

Carriers aren't resistant to torpedoes under the keel but no one blinks an eye at building them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

157 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Taking the annuity is the ultimate trust in government.

Sorry. I'm not that trustworthy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (lEejK)

158 81 If you have cancer, how do you have health for which to care?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (Wv0GD)

I've got brain cancer. Diagnosed and treated 2 years this February. Still kicking.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

159 Today Is Officially Festivus,

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

160 Holiday party this week, everyone was so proud that they are boycotting the (Trump) Kennedy Center now. Meanwhile the artists and musicians are suffering due to loss in revenues - not Trump. Liberals really are incapable of comprehending cause and effect.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 23, 2025 08:19 AM (Hpgos)

161 >>Next, the US lacks the industrial ability to make and build a ship with the armor that was the defining characteristic of true Battleships and Heavy Cruisers of the WWI to WWII era.

I think that's one of the big reasons Trump is doing this. He wants to get our industrial ability back online. Hard to be the most powerful country in the world when you are outsourcing everything.

Trump has said many times that our steel industry is a matter of national defense. So is the ability to do things with the steel we produce.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:19 AM (viF8m)

162 rhennigantx

We have about 1.7 million years of evolution to make our DNA unique. Most of the progress was in the last 50,000 years.

Diversity is completely antithetical to our evolutionary path.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

163 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

Have you heard of Dr. Peter Sulak? If you haven't, maybe worth checking out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM (WHfpM)

164 159 Today Is Officially Festivus,
Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM

I've got some real problems with you people...

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM (2Ez/1)

165 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM (53oGX)

166 what are we defying?

What you got?

Posted by: Rebel Without A Clue at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (m8zKa)

167 Why should his family have any generational wealth? They have been "public servants" their entire lives. They have built and created nothing.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (sX1BW)
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Astounding numbers of better-managed, less reckless and less stupid Washington crime families have achieved it. It's downright normal, but it depends on not being reckless, stupid and wasteful. "Generational wealth" is a wide band. It can be anything from "the kids will have houses and the grandkids will be comfortably through school and adults before there's a meaningful risk of it running out" to "the next 12 generations can do all of the blow they want in however many mansions they choose to own."

What's Hunter's definition? Because he and his dad lived like the latter, but the former is much more attainable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (avHHk)

168 I'd be willing to bet the Biden clan isn't doing well economically. They stole millions but lived large. Now there access to power to grift off of is gone. Perfect evidence is that no one wants to fund the Biden Presidential Library. The Bidens are yesterday's news and largely toxic. I'm devastated and crushed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (MoRvC)

169 One of my earliest memories is walking through a department store with my father and seeing a bright point-of-purchase placard for something 'FREE!' and tugging at his sleeve. He guided me past it as he said "Nothing is free."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:22 AM (WHfpM)

170 >The Bidens are yesterday's news and largely toxic. I'm devastated and crushed.

But I'm a DOCTOR!!

Posted by: Jill at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

171 JackStraw

Good point.

I can see that, but there needs to be a revolution in the industrial C-suite world to carry it off. We have no Andrew Carnegie of steel to make it happen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

172 'couldn’t even grift right despite getting to be president?
Posted by: Piper "

Well, yeah. He 's an idiot. Hunter blew all his money and is counting on getting whatever is left of the Joe Biden estate, but Jill will hang on much longer and use that up.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

173 I'd be willing to bet the Biden clan isn't doing well economically. They stole millions but lived large. Now there access to power to grift off of is gone. Perfect evidence is that no one wants to fund the Biden Presidential Library. The Bidens are yesterday's news and largely toxic. I'm devastated and crushed
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (MoRvC)
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Yup. Failing to whip Hunter into shape and put some cash aside for the future is entirely on Joe and Jill, and I shed not a single tear. They stole many, many millions and raked off huge sums selling influence and American interest. If they couldn't be bothered to protect their filthy lucre and not fritter it away on drugs, whores and various other trash, that's on them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)

174 He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?
Posted by: fd

And working public service, you're not suppose to.

The original"deal" was along the lines of enough paycheck to raise you're family, good benefits and damn bear invincible job security. Somewhere along the way it became " we got to pay them market rate, lavish benefits and pension or they'll leave.

The decision should have been: let them.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 08:24 AM (ItWcy)

175 More thoughts on Trump's "battleship"...

This is fictional, but has been modeled in some wargames; an Arsenal Ship that is just a modified cargo/container ship. Automated. No crew. Loaded up with 500-1000 or so cruise missiles, drones, etc. Blends in with other commercial traffic, gets close to its intended target, then... releases the weapons.

Variations, small iterations of this concept have been used periodically with mixed results. Mostly because integrating fire control systems, and all that goes with that is difficult to do with a ship not designed for weapons.

But if one was....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:24 AM (NwnyJ)

176 - @128 Huck

Story at top of yahoo home page (didn't click on it) says that 60 Minutes piece got aired on some Canadian network unedited.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (T08Hw)

177 One of my earliest memories is walking through a department store with my father and seeing a bright point-of-purchase placard for something 'FREE!' and tugging at his sleeve. He guided me past it as he said "Nothing is free."
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:22 AM (WHfpM)
++++
TANSTAAFL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (avHHk)

178 I think the battleship thing is the usual Trump bluster that makes our enemies fear he is just crazy enough to do it.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

179 I think that's one of the big reasons Trump is doing this. He wants to get our industrial ability back online. Hard to be the most powerful country in the world when you are outsourcing everything.

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The projection of power is not just in the number of aircraft carriers floating in the seas. Its your enemies understanding that you can build more quickly.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (sX1BW)

180 “ Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!”

Psalm 66:5

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 08:26 AM (z0cWr)

181 If you are the only winner of the next Powerball and take the cash payout you will receive $781.3m. Of course you have a better chance of seeing God

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (MoRvC)

182 I thought it was the opposite. Total annuity value is usually much greater than lump-sum, though it does depend on how long you live. Maybe tax implications have changed or Powerball works differently from state lotteries.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (avHHk)

As usual, the vid doesn't show up again. The guy used a Canadian lotto winner as an example - they don't tax winnings. Used something called "present value of money" to show how lump sum gets you more money. Also had a section about taxed, but I dozed off. It seems annuity is best, but he did make a case for lump. Someone more into finance could probably give an explanation of it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (uQesX)

183 It's also...
National Pfeffernusse Day

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

184 UK Dentists refuse to provide free dental care ...

************

London bridges falling down....

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (/iMjX)

185 Sorry President Trump, the day of the battleship ended Dec 7, 1941, when the Japanese proved how vulnerable they were to air attack. What is next? Marching our troops out in Phalanx formation to fight our enemy's drone swarms, while we are using spears and armor? Hey, spears don't have to be reloaded.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (Da7Vv)

How many carriers were sunk at Midway by an air attack?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

186 "Story at top of yahoo home page (didn't click on it) says that 60 Minutes piece got aired on some Canadian network unedited.
Posted by: TeeJ"

Oopsie.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

187 Another crazy animal slams their car into people at a Christmas gathering. This time in the Netherlands. Notice the AP's reporting. "A car" did the ramming. Of course, no details on the car rammer.

Its just yet another grim case of a woman unable to parallel park her car.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

188 Ad Astra Per Aspera

But as cultural American, we can overcome difficulties. Look at Elon Musk and the Space Industry.

Trump as President makes good things possible.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

189 As usual, the vid doesn't show up again. The guy used a Canadian lotto winner as an example - they don't tax winnings. Used something called "present value of money" to show how lump sum gets you more money. Also had a section about taxed, but I dozed off. It seems annuity is best, but he did make a case for lump. Someone more into finance could probably give an explanation of it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (uQesX)
++++
I don't know of a country other than the US with audacity to tax lottery winnings. There probably are some, but that doesn't make it any less absurd. You buy your ticket with post-tax money out of normal earnings and the state takes half the pot upfront, and *then* the state continues to tax it. Preposterous structure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (avHHk)

190 Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.
Now GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

191 Our problem now is no one can agree on what ships to build, so we do nothing. Maybe it is better to do something and just start building ships - even if they are the wrong ships. Because once you have the shipbuilding capability going, you can pivot when the times dictate the exact ship to build.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (sX1BW)

192 UK Dentists refuse to provide free dental care ...

***********

Socialized medicine leads to undentured servitude...

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (/iMjX)

193 "I spent a lot of money on booze, babes, blow and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

Posted by: H. Biden at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

194 Color me skeptical on the "Golden Fleet". If Trump and Hegseth don't fix the Navy's procurement fiascos first it will become the Golden Fleece. The LCS, the Ford, cost overruns on the subs and that cancelled frigate show the incompetence of procurement.
Not impressed with the ship either. The pic on the website https://www.goldenfleet.navy.mil/ shows some info. Gas turbine and diesel power which worked so well on LCS. A railgun that hasn't been made to work after 15 years, 12 hypersonic CPS missiles that are in development. Only 28 VLS cells? That may get you through one attack by anti-ship missiles. Seems like a weak punch for a large ship. Maybe call it "Prince of Wales and Repulse" after the Brit ships sunk by the Japanese. I'd rather see more Arleigh Burke hulls which have 96 VLS cells in the current version.

Posted by: George V at December 23, 2025 08:30 AM (HUbHH)

195 The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English.

Lawrence? The place is a foreign country. The state of the roads goes to hell when you cross the North Andover/Lawrence town line.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 08:30 AM (Wnv9h)

196 Hey, I ain't no Alfred Thayer Mahan but in the immortal words of Isoroku Yamamoto via Toshiro Mifune "R-U-F-K-M?! don't bogart the wasabi, Nagumo!"

The US generally has had a pretty good track record of identifying strategic global threats and adjusting Defense policy in response. We've evolved from the European large scale combat operation (LSCO) model, to a counterinsurgency Middle Eastern posture, and for the last few years have been moving BACK to LSCO, but now in the Pacific. That has meant substantial realignment to air and naval power, with the Navy in particular lagging behind for the last few decades.

Whether it's Taiwan, Japan, Korea, or something else entirely, there is major preparation for a large ground war with China, and that will include massive naval operations to block Chinese trade and protect all the troops and equipment our side needs to ship to the theater.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 23, 2025 08:30 AM (ycI94)

197 The Navy should just do what it does best, submarines. Looking back at WW2, if you know who would have scrapped the idea of big surface stuff (Bismarck, Tirpitz, Graf Spee, Graf Zeppelin) and devoted that material and manpower to U boats, Doenitz might have continued the "Happy Days" with bad results for the allies.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (gm9Sb)

I recall watching an interview with a Japanese admiral after the war and he said that our carriers destroyed their navy but our submarines destroyed their country. They couldn't transport anything by sea.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

198 "The allegations highlight concerns over the misuse of taxpayer funds in the Somali community, and raise questions about oversight in Maine’s Medicaid and welfare systems."

What a complete joke. Migrants ripping off taxpayers all across the U.S.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

199 >>I can see that, but there needs to be a revolution in the industrial C-suite world to carry it off. We have no Andrew Carnegie of steel to make it happen.

I don't know if you heard Trump's speech yesterday, Salty, but he spent a fair amount of time chastising the makers of our jets and ships to get their asses moving and stop doing things like stock buy backs and paying huge executive salaries and build factories. Shockingly, Trump claims to be the best weapons salesman on the planet and everywhere he goes he sells jets, helicopters and hopefully now ships.

Trump sees himself as the jobs president and he is on a mission to get American industry back online after decades of politicians selling us out. In October a deal was made with a South Korean ship building company to reopen a shipyard in Philly. Jobs.

>>David Kim, the Hanwha Defense USA executive who orchestrated the deal and now serves as CEO of Hanwha Philly Shipyard, said that the company plans to expand by “pushing the boundaries of shipbuilding” to fulfill orders for both commercial and government buyers.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (viF8m)

200 Trump denies disaster aid requests for Colorado flooding, wildfires

While a president can tap additional federal assistance with a major disaster under the Stafford Act, the Trump administration has recently denied some states' requests for aid as it works to downsize the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The White House said Monday, "there is no politicization to the president's decisions on disaster relief." White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson explained Trump's decision, adding that the administration sent two firefighting planes to Colorado to help fight the fires.

"The president responds to each request for federal assistance under the Stafford Act with great care and consideration," Jackson said, "ensuring American tax dollars are used appropriately and efficiently by the states to supplement -- not substitute, their obligation to respond to and recover from disasters."

https://tinyurl.com/47xzjdew

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (lEejK)

201
The military wins the battle.
The economy wins the war.

Posted by: Pentagon bathroom stall #3, D Ring at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

202 I think that's one of the big reasons Trump is doing this. He wants to get our industrial ability back online. Hard to be the most powerful country in the world when you are outsourcing everything.

That is a heavy, if not impossible lift.

Key components missing or severely deprecated:

• workforce
• dispatchable energy and water
• transportation infrastructure (rail, highway, etc.)
• pro industry tax and regulation structure
• pro growth society (instead, we have NIMBY. BANANA, neo-luddites)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:33 AM (a4flb)

203 Happy Holidays JJ and the Horde. CBS employees all bark, TV news industry news jobs are scarce these days. They will not quit

Posted by: Jonah at December 23, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

204 I'd take the annuity and retire immediately.

But I don't play. The odds of winning round comfortably to zero. I'm not above some fantasy, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:52 AM (avHHk)

I'd take the lump sum and have better gains over the annuity period. Give some to each of my kids. Maybe a bit to other family members. Bump my retirement account by a bit. And give the rest away. Maybe Samaritan's Purse or Cajun Navy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

205 I'd take the lump sum and have better gains over the annuity period. Give some to each of my kids. Maybe a bit to other family members. Bump my retirement account by a bit. And give the rest away. Maybe Samaritan's Purse or Cajun Navy.

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If Illinois is financing the payment, definitely take the lump sum.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:35 AM (sX1BW)

206 What "fleet" exactly will oppose the US Navy? Red China? Please, cant even feed their sailors. Russia? With their tire burning aircraft carrier which sails around scaring people with the toxic black smoke? Euro Navy? They don't have one. The Japs? Japs got nothing. Who then? India? Rust buckets.

Posted by: Jane's Fighting Ships at December 23, 2025 08:35 AM (m8zKa)

207 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (

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"Ironically, Brits turn to yanks in difficult times..."

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:38 AM (/iMjX)

208 Socialized medicine leads to undentured servitude..."

Sounds like their rules have teeth...

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

209 If you can't afford 23&Me DNA Family Tree service, just publicly announce you won the lottery. You'll find all of your relatives.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM (lEejK)

210 The record time for building a Liberty ship during WWII was 11 days, start to finish.

Posted by: Henry J. Kaiser at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

211 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (

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"Ironically, Brits turn to yanks in difficult times..."

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Jake Paul has found a more lucrative way to remove teeth.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM (sX1BW)

212 I don't know of a country other than the US with audacity to tax lottery winnings.

There is a reason why they call it The Stupid Tax

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

213 Last Thursday my fridge died for the 3rd time. That was enough money out the door for a piece of crap refrigerator so I had to get a new one. Wasn't part of my plan but I'm over it and I like the new so all good.

On Sunday morning I came downstairs and it felt cold. That's because it was cold. My downstairs furnace was not working. I've got a good plumber and he came out Sunday afternoon ... to tell me my furnace was pinning for the fiords. That was definitely not in my plans.

So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying but at least I won't be freezing my ass off in my house.

Merry frigging Christmas to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

214 The last successful Navy warship design was the Arleigh Burke class, since then it has been a litany of multi-billion dollar foul ups: Zumwalt, Freedom, Independence, Ford, and finally the Constitution class because BuShips kept adding or changing things to make a functional design expensive and non-functional.

BuShips needs to be fumigated first.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (2GVsD)

215 >>Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.

A sentence I never thought I's see in America.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (NuV6c)

216 Technically, the person helping the mayor in the courtroom would been acting as an interpreter, not a translator. Interpretation deals with spoken language, translation with written language.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (77rzZ)

217 I think we all know how a man that doesn't speak English gets elected mayor in Lawrence, MA.

Per census data, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is over 82% Hispanic

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

218 Not an expert but as I recall one of the Navy's latest class of ships was the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) . They came to be known as Little Crappy Ships. A completely idiotic idea that was pushed by the ship builders and Naval designers as something revolutionary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (MoRvC)

219 We are slightly miffed that the President didn't announce the Battleships a few months ago to boost Christmas/Chanukah sales of our popular board game.

Posted by: Milton Bradley Co. at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (oftw2)

220 that is where "look say" came in?"

Hey, it works for music, man!

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

221 JackStraw, sending you warm hugs

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:42 AM (tcsrY)

222 210 The record time for building a Liberty ship during WWII was 11 days, start to finish.
Posted by: Henry J. Kaiser at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM

What type of engine was under the hood?

Posted by: Hyman G. Rickover at December 23, 2025 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)

223 I like Sanders. He's a huge grifter, as bad as anyone in ConInc., even Lindsey Graham. And he runs his grift by forever manipulating the credulous base voters with double fistfuls of hopium. He never makes good on any of their Left wing agenda items he promotes, and he takes big bribes from his Party machine to screw them over when needed.

It's like looking at the Democrat version of a Republican, and it's nice to be reminded that they at least have a few of these guys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 08:43 AM (BI5O2)

224 This doesn’t speak well for his family. They don’t have the generational wealth of the Clintons or the Obamas. Why is that? They grifted just as hard, and in an even dirtier, slimier way. Where is the money?

They got millions. If they don't have "generational wealth", that's on them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

225 Just heard from the wife. Two guests have arrived, bringing up the total dog count to five and one more to be dropped off tomorrow.

What is the strategy for dealing with so many dogs? Babysit lazy ones like greyhounds and have dog beds in every room of the house.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (lXoJ5)

226 Interesting, if true:
@WallStreetApes
Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts

CIA Officer says it’s “significant amounts of money” being laundered back to Senator Lindsey Graham

“Let me say something about Senator Graham. There will be news coming out in the next couple of months about how he has profited financially off of money that came out of Ukraine, laundered through Latvia and made it way into his bank account. And now we're talking significant amounts of money. Department of justice is looking at it.

Those are serious allegations leveled by CIA officer, former CIA officer Larry Johnson.“

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NuV6c)

227 Shipbuilding is almost a lost art here in the US. During WWII shipyards were churning out an escort class warship every month and transports ("liberty ships") every couple weeks. And there were a lot of yards doing this.

Today... not so much. And the design stage is a huge clusterfuck for not only warships, but any weapons system.

Sad to think that the likely catalyst to change that would be a serious threat to the nation's survival. And I'm not sure even that would have the desired effect.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)

228 Thank you vmom. I'm considering investing in another dog. I can only rob just so much heat from Elvis.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (viF8m)

229 215 >>Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.

A sentence I never thought I's see in America.
Posted by: Lizzy

Never change, Commies. Workers should own the fruits of their labor! Businesses paying a wage for the labor to make a profit is theft! But the government taking all of your labor for free is just good sharing, Comrade! Government is all of us, working together!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (ycI94)

230 So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying but at least I won't be freezing my ass off in my house.

Merry frigging Christmas to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

Sorry for the fridge and furnace issues. At least you'll have new ones to enjoy for the new year...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (tOcjL)

231 DePena can't even speak English after how many decades?

Wow, give me that Chicom spy Alice Guo who is now serving life in a Philippine jail for human trafficking. At least she learned to speak Tagalog and English to fake being a local before getting elected mayor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (2GVsD)

232 Our problem now is no one can agree on what ships to build

There is your problem. No strategy, no philosophical understanding of the role of the surface fleet.

So now you have a ship. How do you incorporate that into whatever the Hell the country feels it needs a ship of that category to accomplish.

How do you train a recruit and train a crew and incorporate that into a grand strategery?

Its why I'm not impressed when China says they are going to build an air craft carrier, unless the US has given them generations of Naval warfare know-how and China can leap-frog all of the missteps and errors and jump to the last scene sequence of Ground Hog Day, having a hull that is supposed to do something is not a threat.

Dittos with Trump's Back To Early 20th Century Naval Warfare Strategery - here is the ship, now what do we do with it?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

233 Navy: Listening to Navy experts and it makes sense that I think the move is to drawing down the Army resources and rebuilding our Navy in support of the Monroe Doctrine. Not sure, yet, where battleships fit, but Trump and Hegseth are not dummies.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (mNOhh)

234 You want to increase outward migration from the USA?
Identify every illegal who fraudulently received money and have the IRS tax the crap out of them. That's how the government fir Capone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (MoRvC)

235 > Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts
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He's not the only one.

He's apparently one of the careless ones. Not that it will matter in the long run.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (NwnyJ)

236 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Somali girI in Minnesota: "We should not be illegal. This is stolen land."

https://tinyurl.com/3ty2tesz

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

237 Sanders is an inveterate bum. He bounced around Vermont in a beat-up VW into his 40s promoting socialist pamphlets, never held a serious job. And then he found politics. Now he has three homes. The American Dream.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)

238 Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts.

Well! I never! (Sashays away)

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, closeted homosexual at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (m8zKa)

239 I'm not sure he understands this.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (WHfpM)

I suspect that that issue is that a lot of people, particularly here, do not comprehend how difficult it is for him to get the most corrupt federal agency to act against members of the deep state, particularly in the knowledge that a DC grand jury is unlikely to indict or a DC jury convict a member of the deep state.

It's like having every member of the panel of judges at Nuremburg being an original member of the Nazi party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

240 I think we all know how a man that doesn't speak English gets elected mayor in Lawrence, MA.

Per census data, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is over 82% Hispanic
Posted by: redridinghood

Lawrencio, MA?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (lEejK)

241 "Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts."

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

242 Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts

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Of course. That was obvious from the jump. That twisted old fruit stops just short ofblicking his lips and snuffling like a pig whenever the subject of the war comes up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (BI5O2)

243 move is to drawing down the Army resources"

Capt'n Bearclaw says "nooooo" in Ukranian/whatever

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

244 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth

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The case is being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for litigation...

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (/iMjX)

245 203 Happy Holidays JJ and the Horde. CBS employees all bark, TV news industry news jobs are scarce these days. They will not quit
Posted by: Jonah

That's true, but it won't stop the flood of hatchet-faced feminists being gradiated from Journalism skools. We will never run out of Margarets.

Posted by: Who Watches Them? at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (oftw2)

246 You know, Trump ain't stoopid. Something tells me his battleship won't be the battleship proved obsolete in WW2.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (pohLc)

247 Big ships are stupid, expensive monuments to the past. Give me the same amount of money to build drone motherships and I will win every time.

Posted by: p-squared at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (0prFs)

248 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth

********

I can't decide which side to root for...

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (/iMjX)

249 Somali girI in Minnesota: "We should not be illegal. This is stolen land."

*white woman teacher "I'm so proud of her"*

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

250 231 DePena can't even speak English after how many decades?

Wow, give me that Chicom spy Alice Guo who is now serving life in a Philippine jail for human trafficking. At least she learned to speak Tagalog and English to fake being a local before getting elected mayor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (2GVsD)

My Niece is married to a Hispanic Man whose Mother has been here over 30 years and she doesn't speak English... In California you don't have to...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

251 Those are serious allegations leveled by CIA officer, former CIA officer Larry Johnson.“
Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NuV6c)

Don't care for Graham, but until every f'in D is charged for the same blinkin' thing.... Leave Lindsay Alone!!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)

252 The case is being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for litigation..."

*groans*

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (XuXeR)

253 The 3 politicians most involved with the Maidan coup are Joe Biden, John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)

254 - JackStraw

Maybe put some of that optimism to work and be thankful you have the ability to replace the fridge and furnace?
And the roof over your head?
And the food in the fridge?
And....

Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (T08Hw)

255 I'm taking the rest of the week off. Yea!
Today, errands and gaming.
Tomorrow, baking and gaming.
Thursday, eating and gifting.
Friday, gaming and whatever.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (f0sNM)

256 One fun historical tidbit, one day in 1944 a US shipyard commissioned four Fleet submarines. In one day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (2GVsD)

257 What is the strategy for dealing with so many dogs? Babysit lazy ones like greyhounds and have dog beds in every room of the house.
Posted by: NR Pax

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Good luck!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (tcsrY)

258 That Lawrence mayor must be functionally retarded not to have learned English after all these years.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

259 I think we all know how a man that doesn't speak English gets elected mayor in Lawrence, MA.

Per census data, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is over 82% Hispanic
Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

Check out my post at #59. DePena can speak English. He deliberately chose not to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (ufSfZ)

260 I suspect that that issue is that a lot of people, particularly here, do not comprehend how difficult it is for him to get the most corrupt federal agency to act against members of the deep state, particularly in the knowledge that a DC grand jury is unlikely to indict or a DC jury convict a member of the deep state.

It's like having every member of the panel of judges at Nuremburg being an original member of the Nazi party.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Proof positive that Trump isn't a dictator or a king.

Because Stalin or Rocket Man wouldn't hesitate to publicly execute the head of the department and keep going until they started doing their job.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (lEejK)

261 I thought it was the opposite. Total annuity value is usually much greater than lump-sum, though it does depend on how long you live. Maybe tax implications have changed or Powerball works differently from state lotteries.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (avHHk)

IIRC... the annuity pays ~2x the lump sum but it's over 25 years. So, to beat that you only need to average ~3% returns.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

262
It takes years to build an Army.
It takes decades to build a Navy.

Posted by: The next Pentagon bathroom stall over at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

263 I can't decide which side to root for..."

It's an amalgam of bad puns...

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

264 >>James will be giving the “oath of office” to Mamdani — a Democratic Socialist — at midnight on New Year’s Day, while Sanders will be giving the oath of office “at Mamdani’s public swearing-in ceremony”

Because Bernie Sanders is the godfather of the Justice Democrats. It was started by Bernie bros. He's getting his Socialist dreams completed via this next generation.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (NuV6c)

265 Looks like Jack Straw will be back on the Nebraska Ditch Weed for a while.

Posted by: Rat In A Drain Ditch at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (oftw2)

266 Sad to think that the likely catalyst to change that would be a serious threat to the nation's survival. And I'm not sure even that would have the desired effect.

Putin and Xi don't strike fear in me. Its the 535 Total Piles of Shit we call Congress and the 500 or so Demonic District Judges, and the 200 million communist parasites and the generations of directed destruction of our language, borders, culture, traditions and heritage that make for the greatest threat to the nation's survival.

First, I posit, the US is not a Nation, since a Nation is more of a people with shared language, traditions, culture and identity. The US, like much of the West is not nations. We are barely a country because of the failure of our judicial and monetary functions.

The US is basically a sick and diseased Economic Opportunity Zone.

It doesn't need a military, that is for nations. What the US needs is an enema.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (a4flb)

267 257 What is the strategy for dealing with so many dogs? Babysit lazy ones like greyhounds and have dog beds in every room of the house.
Posted by: NR Pax

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Good luck!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (tcsrY)

Live somewhere warm and dry in the winter, so they can all enjoy your fenced in backyard and outdoor dog houses?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (tOcjL)

268 I can't decide which side to root for...
Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (/iMjX)

Whichever one still has its wisdom.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (WHfpM)

269 Hey leave Miss Lindsay alone. He has a lot of rent boys to support

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (MoRvC)

270 Navy: Listening to Navy experts and it makes sense that I think the move is to drawing down the Army resources and rebuilding our Navy in support of the Monroe Doctrine. Not sure, yet, where battleships fit, but Trump and Hegseth are not dummies.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (mNOhh)

Taking funds from one branch to give to another is the way to victory!!

Posted by: IJN and IJA at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (uQesX)

271 Somali girI in Minnesota: "We should not be illegal. This is stolen land."

I am starting to have even more contempt for these people and I didn't know that was possible.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (lXoJ5)

272 Another thought on "Trump's battleship" is that it might be a ruse to get one or more of our adversaries to invest time and money into their own battleship design.

China has copied damn near every weapons system we've got. And in some cases exceeded our own designs.

Whether those Chinese weapons systems will perform is debatable. But making them take the time, effort and money to do so might be worthwhile while we get up to speed on hypersonics and directed energy weapons.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:52 AM (NwnyJ)

273 Trump declares NYT a "Threat to National Security" and "True Enemy of the People"; calls for "Unhinged Behavior" of the press to be "dealt with and stopped"

It feels like forever ago, but there was a time when trump wasn’t allowed on social media because of shit spewing…and the country decided we needed 600% more of it.

Every accusation is a confession with these people. Regardless of what reddit will tell you, it's okay to punch despots. It's so, so overdue.

There goes the first amendment. Damn, they won without a fight. I never want to hear another republican, talk about constitutional originalism again

”Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped,” Trump wrote. How do have a fake opinion?

See the weaponization of double standard hypocrisy by conservatives? They demand tolerance from liberals, but seek Bolshevik-style state media when they get the chance.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 08:52 AM (ycI94)

274 Department of justice is looking at it.

Which is all they will ever do.

Otherwise known as, "How To Lose The Midterms In One Easy Step."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (ufSfZ)

275 Yup. Failing to whip Hunter into shape and put some cash aside for the future is entirely on Joe and Jill, and I shed not a single tear. They stole many, many millions and raked off huge sums selling influence and American interest. If they couldn't be bothered to protect their filthy lucre and not fritter it away on drugs, whores and various other trash, that's on them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)

I always said he'd come to no good in the end, your honour
If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied, the bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder, let me hammer him today -- Joe Biden on Hunter

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

276 It may be useful to consider that industrial building capacity can be repurposed, once the staffing and machinery are in place.

Which is to say, it may not be ships Trump intends to build ...

All Terrain Armored Transports, AT-AT, for short, if you will ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (HXT0k)

277 So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying but at least I won't be freezing my ass off in my house.

Merry frigging Christmas to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)
++++
On the plus side, you can buy the furnace and get it installed at the last minute. That's very expensive, unexpected, terribly timed and overall bad - especially at this time of year - but it can be remedied. So at least there is that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (avHHk)

278 Oh I'm optimistic enough, Teej. Cold but optimistic.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (viF8m)

279 Good Lord. There is a reason my wife and I refer to reddit as a sewer.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (lXoJ5)

280 >>Video proof that DePena can speak English if he wants to:

https://tinyurl.com/4j3vby2s

So why the translator?
Is it that he isn't confident enough in a legal proceeding, or is this just a game for him, all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (NuV6c)

281 This "stolen land" bullshit is gaslighting for the brain dead. This is conquered land, paid for in blood and suffering, just like every other fucking square inch in the world.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (pohLc)

282 253 The 3 politicians most involved with the Maidan coup are Joe Biden, John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)

Code Name: Larry, Moe, and Curly.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (Q+gd/)

283 "It's an amalgam of bad puns..."

A bridge too far.

Posted by: The next Pentagon bathroom stall over at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

284 Merry frigging Christmas to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

Sorry about that Jack. But the way you expressed it made me chuckle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (YobFY)

285 The Golden Fleet is all bluff and bluster. He is trying to do a Reagan and get China and Russia to spend money they don't have. He may build one or two vessels, but no more.

Posted by: Gary at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (j3Fsw)

286 President Autopen, 4 years ago.

"We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated – for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (f0sNM)

287 >>On the plus side, you can buy the furnace and get it installed at the last minute. That's very expensive, unexpected, terribly timed and overall bad - especially at this time of year - but it can be remedied. So at least there is that.

I was surprised they could do it so soon. I was making plans to decamp temporarily for the holidays so this was a stroke of good luck.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)

288 Bridge too far...

Posted by: Oops sock fail at December 23, 2025 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

289 So why the translator?
Is it that he isn't confident enough in a legal proceeding, or is this just a game for him, all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (NuV6c)

The former is possible - just about every Lawrence mayor since I was a child was an out-and-out crook - but I think it's more signaling to his base that he's still one of the homies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:56 AM (ufSfZ)

290 ... It feels like forever ago, but there was a time when trump wasn’t allowed on social media because of shit spewing…and the country decided we needed 600% more of it. ...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 08:52 AM (ycI94)
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These people are hopeless idiots.

"600% more?" What the hell does that even mean? How do you even quantify it? I never once thought about it like that. I just want leftists sobbing and panicked as the gnash their teeth over the unfairness of it all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:56 AM (avHHk)

291 275 Yup. Failing to whip Hunter into shape and put some cash aside for the future is entirely on Joe and Jill, and I shed not a single tear. They stole many, many millions and raked off huge sums selling influence and American interest. If they couldn't be bothered to protect their filthy lucre and not fritter it away on drugs, whores and various other trash, that's on them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)

I always said he'd come to no good in the end, your honour
If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied, the bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder, let me hammer him today -- Joe Biden on Hunter
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

Wait, I thought he was an accomplished painter with a bright future.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (i0Hi3)

292 San Franpsycho

How long was your power out?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)
=====

About 40 hours. Came on again about 7:30 am yesterday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (7nrYO)

293 It's getting close!

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (g47mK)

294 I am starting to have even more contempt for these people and I didn't know that was possible.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (lXoJ5)
******
Yeah, I am so sick of these ungrateful people ripping off the US while insisting that we bow down to them and conform to their culture of the country they escaped from.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

295 I was surprised they could do it so soon. I was making plans to decamp temporarily for the holidays so this was a stroke of good luck.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)
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Yeah, amazing. Someone with the unit in stock and a free day right before Christmas.

Or he was planning to take the day off, and you found a price that got him to forgo his Christmas Eve plans. Either way, a stroke of luck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (avHHk)

296 So why the translator?
Is it that he isn't confident enough in a legal proceeding, or is this just a game for him, all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?
Posted by: Lizzy

If convicted he can claim he didn't understand/ bad interpreter. And Hispanic backing.

See, I'm just like you. Vote for me.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (ItWcy)

297 292 San Franpsycho

How long was your power out?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)
=====

About 40 hours. Came on again about 7:30 am yesterday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (7nrYO)

Bummer.. We're 60 miles from SF and when it goes out here, and it does, we are lucky enough to have a generator.... Bet that's not an option in SF..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

298 Lawrence Welk was born and raised in North Dakota, went to German language schools there, went to German language stores, church, lodge, etc. Never learned English until his 20s. Spoke such heavily accented English that it sounded like he was raised in the Alps. I never attended an English church service until I was about 10, only Norwegian language. This was in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Accent-u-ate The Positive at December 23, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

299 all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?

Had an acquaintance that used to be a security guard at Target. He was Vietnamese and he loved it when those kids tried the "I no speak English!" defense. Broke them pretty quickly when he changed languages.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:59 AM (lXoJ5)

300 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (

***********

♫ ♪ ♫

Fillings
Whoa whoa whoa fillings
Whoa whoa whoa fillings
Again in my flat

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (/iMjX)

301 >So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying
----

been there, mon frere. Except for me it was AC. The old unit just couldn't be repaired any more. I said, 'screw it, gimme all new stuff'. $21K later I was cool as a cucumber. Had to be done. No choice. Colorado summer is not to be endured.

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (ZxPkt)

302 I have met a few people that spoke heavily accented English but were born here. The family spoke the old country exclusively around the house, and the neighborhood was about the same.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (gm9Sb)

My parents were both 1st generation Americans, mom's side being Hungarian, Dad's side Slovak. They and their siblings spoke perfect English. Their parents immigrated here from around 1901 to 1907. My grandparents spoke broken English, but learned English from their kids. The neighborhoods were Hungarian and Slovak, but only English was taught in the schools back then. No bilingual nonsense. They were forced to learn English to survive. No one catered to them.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (5xuJ/)

303 Just saw this, the Delaware Supreme Court has split the baby in the worst way possible.

Remember the DE tyrant in black who stripped Elon Musk of his shareholder approved compensation package?

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Elon on the package but is going to leave standing the actual ruling.

Delaware will remain radioactive to corporations because their judiciary has decided just one irate shareholder can hold an entire company hostage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (2GVsD)

304 Having worked and administrated in several FQHC organizations in the past, and watching one very big one locally go bankrupt (due to poor financial planning and a very distant geographically and philosophically CEO and Board) I can both support the concept and note that the execution and Federal Oversight is spotty at best. If we’re going to hold back on the funding bill for them, I’d suggest some rewriting of current rules and regulations to minimize creation and support of huge non-profit organizations geographically distant from the communities they serve, and make them locally administered and controlled, at least at the county level, with a minimum but essential support and oversight from the Federal level.

Posted by: epador at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (TRnzq)

305 The Trump Class could possibly work, if the ships were built with proven and relatively affordable technologies. But that's not what the MIC does. They will want to stuff them with the latest AI targeting systems, stealth hull plating, secure BLOS quantum encrypted communications, photon torpedoes ... it's the obsession with bleeding edge technology that makes our military both hyperexpensive and not very effective. That bleeding technology takes forever to develop, breaks down frequently, and costs a fortune to maintain. F-35s cost a fortune to fly and spend more time in maintenance than in the air.

Cheaper weapons systems based on proven technology would make the military stronger at less cost.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (f0sNM)

306 Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NuV6c)

While I have no doubt that Lindsey Graham is a war profiteering piece of shit, I hesitate to take the word of "former CIA officer".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

307
While I have no doubt that Lindsey Graham is a war profiteering piece of shit, I hesitate to take the word of "former CIA officer".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

I'm with you.. And I'm no Graham fan

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

308 Shipbuilding is almost a lost art here in the US. During WWII shipyards were churning out an escort class warship every month and transports ("liberty ships") every couple weeks. And there were a lot of yards doing this.

Today... not so much. And the design stage is a huge clusterfuck for not only warships, but any weapons system.

Sad to think that the likely catalyst to change that would be a serious threat to the nation's survival. And I'm not sure even that would have the desired effect.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)

AI will solve this issue. Trust us. -- Tech CEOs

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

309 ALL THE CRAZY 2020 ELECTION CONSPIRACIES ARE TWUE!

That includes the existence of the secret Dominion data center in Belgrade:

https://tinyurl.com/2ykcyd8m

Also note this:

@DNIGabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report on this matter

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 09:02 AM (KgVf3)

310 161
'Trump has said many times that our steel industry is a matter of national defense. So is the ability to do things with the steel we produce.'

Yeah. But he should beef up steel production in a way that makes sense.
Building a fleet of Maus tanks would take a bunch of steel but does it help national defense?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (fd80v)

311 As far as language goes, my Dad’s family were from “the hills” and had to learn how to speak city English. They did and they prospered. If they hadn’t, they wouldn’t have.

Posted by: epador at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (TRnzq)

312 Our ANOTHER Movie Channel buddy has released more ranking and ranting on Youtube. Please Like and Subscribe!

Posted by: Hollywood Babylon at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (oftw2)

313 I smile when I think of all the new military tech coming out, and I know there will still be a Ma deuce mounted on anything big enough to carry it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (pohLc)

314 A district judge in California I think just gave a summary judgment on parental consent laws barring schools from keeping secrets from kid’s parents. This will probably be important news. Judgment was written yesterday.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:04 AM (3uBP9)

315 You'll know the Biden clan is dead broke when they start writing tell all books about each other. Circular firing squads.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (MoRvC)

316 Yeah. But he should beef up steel production

Wish we would beef up steer production... I had to pay $124.00 for a 16 pound standing rib roast for Christmas .. And that was on sale..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)

317 >>Yeah, amazing. Someone with the unit in stock and a free day right before Christmas.

I bought this place from the builder when I moved here so everything was new. But it was also builders special quality in some areas including the furnaces and inline (hate) water heater. So I had never needed a plumber or electrician. Until the lockdowns when my inline water heater died.

I called at least a half dozen plumbers and they all said they weren't taking new customers or didn't even bother to return the call. Until I found this company that has both a plumbing and electrical department.

They came out the next day and determined the unit was dead and out of warranty by a few months. The lead tech said watch this. He called the manufacturer and just abused them until they agreed to give me a new unit and all I got charged for was labor. Best tradesmen I've ever found.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (viF8m)

318 m8zKa)

52 USS Defiant? Uh Oh.
In WWII, the Brits tried a (sort-of) fighter plane named the defiant. It was loaded down with a ball turret with machine guns, and was a miserable failure.
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (1FEc1)

Oh come on! The Defiant laid waste to a Jem Hadar fleet! And kicked a lot of Cardassian ass too!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:06 AM (pLSjm)

319 Today Is Officially Festivus

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM

I've got some real problems with you people...

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM

Kruger, you couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe... I lost my train of thought...

YouTube: https://bit.ly/44DkMge

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (P5BPp)

320 Seriously though. It's not like the British were world-renowned for quality dental work before the dentists strike.

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (/iMjX)

321 Here is more on the parental consent ruling if you want to read:

x.com/ThomasMoreSoc/status/
2003262592945373216

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (3uBP9)

322 Wish we would beef up steer production... I had to pay $124.00 for a 16 pound standing rib roast for Christmas .. And that was on sale..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)
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I'd kill for that price in my area. This year, I am not doing a rib roast for Christmas. I could pay for it, but I can't rationalize it and my family agreed and so we're doing something else.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (avHHk)

323 Or he was planning to take the day off, and you found a price that got him to forgo his Christmas Eve plans. Either way, a stroke of luck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (avHHk)

That sounds suspiciously like a free-market economy! I wonder if that would work for Canada's and the UK's medical system?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (xG1o0)

324 When I began my career in the defense industry in the mid-1990s, there was a huge push toward "joint interoperability," i.e. getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.

I am now counting the days toward the end of my career in the defense industry, and the military is still working on getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (f0sNM)

325 Human beings have been stealing land from one another since shortly after walking upright. It's what we do.

Hey Og, looks better over there
Yeah, Kag, but there are already some semi-erect proto-humans living there,
Fuck that shit. Everybody! grab a lemur femur and let's go steal us some land.
Hey-oh!

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (ZxPkt)

326 That sounds suspiciously like a free-market economy! I wonder if that would work for Canada's and the UK's medical system?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (xG1o0)
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That's soooooo unfair. That means the "haves" get care at the expense of the "have nots!" It's literally murder!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (avHHk)

327 She needs to say it's a sloppily written hit piece that fails the most basic standard of professional journalism and the surpassing responsibility of a major network. She won't.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (WHfpM)
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I think she said almost exactly that, maybe formulated a little differently.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (M4ySl)

328 I'm upset for locals, but happy Target is effing up. The pick up order computers at mid Hudson Target's crashed wiping out all the orders. Hire more IT, less DEI you lug nuts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (MoRvC)

329 These people are hopeless idiots.

"600% more?" What the hell does that even mean? How do you even quantify it? I never once thought about it like that. I just want leftists sobbing and panicked as the gnash their teeth over the unfairness of it all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

As Ace has noted, the Left "loves science sexually", so if you deny their made-up statistics, you're oppressing their identity and reality, or something. It's hard to argue reality with people perpetually living in delusion.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (ycI94)

330 I am now counting the days toward the end of my career in the defense industry, and the military is still working on getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (f0sNM)
++++
"The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many from which to choose!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (avHHk)

331 I am now counting the days toward the end of my career in the defense industry, and the military is still working on getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (f0sNM)
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Bad plan.

Posted by: Human attempting to hide from a scanning Cylon eye at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (avHHk)

332 Our Christmas Dinner is going to be all-you-can eat Oriental food at the local Hibachi restaurant. (Yeah, I said Oriental, in the pan-Asian sense. And I meant it.)

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (f0sNM)

333 Every accusation is a confession with these people. Regardless of what reddit will tell you, it's okay to punch despots. It's so, so overdue.

I'm your fucking huckleberry.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (lEejK)

334 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Ask the winners of the publisher's clearing house who took the annuity, which stopped when they went bankrupt.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (0U5gm)

335 322 Joe Mannix, you’re Jewish, right? So no Chinese restaurants?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

336 The British knew how to name ships. These were the ships present at the Battle Of Trafalgar.

https://shorturl.at/7woio

goes to wiki

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 09:12 AM (ZxPkt)

337 Uh oh, they got Trump now!

Headline: Trump Flew on Epstein Jet "Many More Times" than Previously Disclosed.

Repeated each paragraph: Trump flew on Epstein's jet many more times than previously known/disclosed.

Seriously, it's repeated every paragraph; the "many more times."

Until you get to around 10 or 12 ....
Then they reveal it's between 4 and 6 flights in the years of 1993 to 1996.
FFS

You don't hate Thomas Massie and his media whores enough.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 09:12 AM (HXT0k)

338 322 Joe Mannix, you’re Jewish, right? So no Chinese restaurants?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)
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LOL. Yes, I am. The wider family is interfaith, though and we observe Christmas. I usually handle Christmas Eve dinner.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (avHHk)

339 USS Gettysburg was in charge of Truman's air defense but that night was poorly briefed, ship was not tied into the task force data network, had IFF problems, and watch officers had been pencil-whipped by the Captain as qualified.

But the Captain was allowed to simply move on though his ship shot down one Super Bug, almost bagged two more and a helicopter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (2GVsD)

340 Those ships should be gold.
As in 24k gold.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (En0c1)

341 Here is more on the parental consent ruling if you want to read:

x.com/ThomasMoreSoc/status/
2003262592945373216

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (3uBP9)

That is awesome. Thanks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (dK+Kv)

342 Ask the winners of the publisher's clearing house who took the annuity, which stopped when they went bankrupt.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I leave the front porch light on in case Ed McMahon shows up with balloons and a GIANT check.

Posted by: Keep Hope Alive! at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (oftw2)

343 Time and again, in battles of the past, communication and coordination made the difference in crushing the opposition, and getting your ass kicked. Fine example, Kasserine pass, El Guettar, 1943.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (pohLc)

344 > @DNIGabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report on this matter
-----------
Who's preventing this? Her own office? She's the Director of National Intelligence for God's sake.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (NwnyJ)

345 I am also the only early riser in a houseful of layabouts. I've been up and about since 6:30

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (f0sNM)

346 "How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around"

It doesn't help AT ALL that the republican party is openly opposed to those that put them in office. They got rid of the Tea Party and are simply waiting Trump out.

Many will get paid to 'retire' just like 30+ did in 2018 at a time when incumbents won 93% of the time.

I am optimistic and will do anything I can to help because establishment republicans are feckless. Look what they helped foment over Tuca and TPUSA.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 23, 2025 09:14 AM (mNOhh)

347 I am also the only early riser in a houseful of layabouts. I've been up and about since 6:30
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (f0sNM)
++++
Enjoy your peaceful hours!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:14 AM (avHHk)

348 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (uQesX)
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Depends on your state tax situation and your perception of the discount rate they use to figure out the present (cash) value. Some states do not tax lottery winnings, and other states do. Some people think they can earn more than the discount rate. I would take the annuity myself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 09:15 AM (c/v/O)

349 You been heah four hour! You go now!!

Posted by: The Oriental man in charge at December 23, 2025 09:15 AM (2Ez/1)

350 Another crazy animal slams their car into people at a Christmas gathering. This time in the Netherlands. Notice the AP's reporting. "A car" did the ramming. Of course, no details on the car rammer.

Its just yet another grim case of a woman unable to parallel park her car.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

And remember that there are countries that drive on the wrong side of the road.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (g8Ew8)

351 Who's preventing this? Her own office? She's the Director of National Intelligence for God's sake.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (NwnyJ)
-

I would look higher.

Possibility of keeping the details private until...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (KgVf3)

352 LOL @ cover pic

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (KgVf3)

353 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Blue states including Colorado stand to lose tens of MILLIONS of federal dollars because they are not cooperating with purging illegals from CDLs

SEC. DUFFY: "I can PULL THEIR MONEY."

"I guarantee you, the taxpayer will NOT fund their roads and bridges and systems when they put illegals on the roads!"

"If you can't speak English...you should NOT be behind the wheel of a big rig. These are 80,000 POUNDS!"

https://tinyurl.com/ub24eeb2

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

355 The hostesses as the Hibachi Place are Chinese, but the servers are Filipino. It's helpful to know a bit of Mandarin and some Spanish.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (f0sNM)

356 Chinee Restaurant give extra MSG to all Jewish patrons on Christmas Day!

Posted by: Fa-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra!! at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (oftw2)

357 More info on the proposed "battleship":

https://www.goldenfleet.navy.mil/

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (AZDyS)

358 Ok to be serious - the ship building is because the Arleigh Burke Destoyer class, an incredibly successful design, has reached the end of its useful life. The platform is just too small to carry much of the new developments foreseen. Also the Zumwalt class, which was supposed to be the ship of the future, turned out to be a failure and has been canceled. So all our warships are aging out, with no planned replacement.

What Trump is talking about is really a super Destroyer, or what used to be called a cruiser with the ability to mount a lot of new tech and maybe even a VTOL F-35 or two, as well as helicopters.
It will be nothing like the old battleships, but they are ships, and they might do battle, and Trump likes the word a lot, so what the heck let’s call them battleships.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (pLSjm)

359 Hey Og, looks better over there
Yeah, Kag, but there are already some semi-erect proto-humans living there,
Fuck that shit.

------

A lot of that, sure.

But, remember, we're humans, so there's a lot of this, too.

OG: look at that place. What a dump. And the women are ugly, and the water will make you sick.

KAG: so what, homo? Hey fellas, look at fancy Og over here, he's TOO GOOD to steal this armpit of a valley with the rest of us troglodytes!

OG: ok, you're right, you're right... I'll get my club.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 09:18 AM (BI5O2)

360 FINALLY!!! We're getting battleships again!! Yayayay! Our Navy won two world wars and countless other skirmishes with BATTLESHIPS!! Not Carriers, not trifling pitiful little LCS, Nay! I say, NAY! We used battleships! Battleships with big fucking guns! They could reach out and touch some motherfucker from far, far away!!

BRING ON THE MODERN BATTLESHIPS!!!!! Tell the whole damn world "fuck with us and we will rain hell down on you from a big beautiful BATTLESHIP!!!"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 09:20 AM (2J/Lj)

361 Great. Here comes the snow.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

362 I'm upset for locals, but happy Target is effing up. The pick up order computers at mid Hudson Target's crashed wiping out all the orders. Hire more IT, less DEI you lug nuts
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Sounds like the DEI IT is working out real well.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (lEejK)

363 SEC. DUFFY: "I can PULL THEIR MONEY."

Okay, do it. This sanctuary lawlessness has been going on with total abandon way too long Allowing this crime is a crime itself.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (WHfpM)

364 Cali tried a bunch of horrid things in that parental consent case. They tried, “well our lgbtqwerty programs are just too big to remove now without risking total annihilation” and the court answered, “that’s a you problem”. Then they tried the Moot Gambit, “hee hee we switched it off yesterday, it’s off now, so your whole case is MOOOOOOT!!!”, but the defendants showed it was all clearly in the upcoming teacher training. Moot is bullshit, almost always used to help the left.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (3uBP9)

365 Speaking of Target, I don't believe their commercials could get any more queer.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 09:23 AM (pohLc)

366 Happy Christmas Adam, everyone!!

(Adam preceded Eve, so...)

Posted by: windbag at December 23, 2025 09:23 AM (M/xXM)

367 Hey, we've been around since 2008. But we're roughly the size of a frigate. If you want to paint us gray, put a bunch of weapons onboard and call us battleships, fine.
Whatever.

Posted by: The Legend class Coast Guard cutter at December 23, 2025 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

368 I just hope that the new battleships aren’t to the old battleships what the Mustang II was to the original Mustang.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:24 AM (pLSjm)

369 And away we go. I don't claim t be an expert on defense issues, but this move on the part of President Trump just makes no sense to me.

Trump likes attention. He loves America. China has been building up their military by leaps and bounds over the US. Is their construction capabilities better than ours? Likely not. But Trump is reminding the world we can still build shit bigger and better than anyone else. This is just another cog in his 'peace through strength' mantra.

I'm fine with it.

We SHOULD be the biggest and baddest EVERYTHING on the block.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

370 I forget where I read it - it was in an analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Orwell's writing of it - but one author has speculated that Orwell's use of the past tense when talking about Newspeak in the appendix was a subtle hint to the reader that, after all, the Party was defeated in the end.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (ufSfZ)

More likely the name was changed and they pretended it never existed.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (oHAzj)

371 >>@EricLDaugh
·

>>🚨 BREAKING: US GDP just DESTROYED expectations, surging +4.3% in Q3

>>"That is a NICE jump! This would be the strongest going back to Q3 2023. THIS IS STRONG!" 🔥🔥

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (viF8m)

372 BRING ON THE MODERN BATTLESHIPS!!!!! Tell the whole damn world "fuck with us and we will rain hell down on you from a big beautiful BATTLESHIP!!!"
Posted by: Madamemayhem
________

What? When did this happen? So are we talking 16 or 18 inch guns, or is this just our version of the Kirov class?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (XvL8K)

373 He called the manufacturer and just abused them until they agreed to give me a new unit and all I got charged for was labor.

That's hilarious. Great to have someone who can get a company to find it in their heart to help out.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (lXoJ5)

374 BRING ON THE MODERN BATTLESHIPS!!!!! Tell the whole damn world "fuck with us and we will rain hell down on you from a big beautiful BATTLESHIP!!!"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 09:20 AM (2J/Lj)

Pooky was USAF but I agree!

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (Wt5PA)

375 Meanwhile in the all American town of Lawrence, Massachusetts:

But, the blue states are the SAFEST states in the country, as ASS keeps reminding us.

Nothing to see here, please disperse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

376 Silver over $70! I'm rich! Might go out to buy my own Battleship.

Posted by: Landlubber Lenny at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (oftw2)

377 Happy Christmas Adam, everyone!!

(Adam preceded Eve, so...)

Posted by: windbag at December 23, 2025 09:23 AM (M/xXM)

Why did this make me chuckle?

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 09:27 AM (oHAzj)

378 But, the blue states are the SAFEST states in the country, as ASS keeps reminding us.

Nothing to see here, please disperse.

===

never listen to ASS

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 09:27 AM (g47mK)

379 SEC. DUFFY: "I can PULL THEIR MONEY."

Okay, do it. This sanctuary lawlessness has been going on with total abandon way too long Allowing this crime is a crime itself.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (WHfpM)

In before the "nothing will happen" guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

380 Silver over $70! I'm rich! Might go out to buy my own Battleship.

==

Commodity price goes up, everyone runs to sell to realize gains, price fall....

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

381 never listen to ASS

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 09:27 AM (g47mK)

Can't help hearing him, he keeps farting all over the place.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (Wt5PA)

382 I'm upset for locals, but happy Target is effing up. The pick up order computers at mid Hudson Target's crashed wiping out all the orders. Hire more IT, less DEI you lug nuts
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Target? Men can use the Ladies room, so you need to shut up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

383 368 I just hope that the new battleships aren’t to the old battleships what the Mustang II was to the original Mustang.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Mustang II-Boredom Zero!

Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea! at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (oftw2)

384 I gotta admit that the idea of a battleship in the modern world is pretty silly when we've been treated to nothing but stories in the past week of Ukrainian underwater autonomous drones taking out Russia subs.

But yeah it'll be f'in cool to see. I wonder where they'll make it. The render kind of looked like a Zumwalt on steroids so I wonder if it will be built here in Maine. Bath Iron Works probably isn't big enough to build it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (2ftGe)

385 Likely not. But Trump is reminding the world we can still build shit bigger and better than anyone else.

Think of the steel industry we'll need, and energy, and trades, and engineering, and transport. I like it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (6LzyB)

386 Pooky was USAF but I agree!
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard
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Wishing you and all the pooky's a Merry and healthy Christmas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (Mis34)

387 Witholding highway funds is a proven winner.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 09:30 AM (cS1cw)

388 We have way more adversaries than just the CCP . Battleships are just ocean artillery. I don’t think anyone is recommending getting rid of land artillery.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 09:30 AM (KDPiq)

389 Wishing you and all the pooky's a Merry and healthy Christmas.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (Mis34)

You too!

First ultrasound for Lil Pookette today, I'm excited!

Posted by: pookysgirl wants to see that tiny heart beating at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (Wt5PA)

390 Witholding highway funds is a proven winner.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 09:30 AM (cS1cw)

Because the $787bn "American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" was such a f*cking boondoggle of win and growth in American greatness.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

391 First ultrasound for Lil Pookette today, I'm excited!

Posted by: pookysgirl wants to see that tiny heart beating at December 23, 2025 09:32 AM (Wt5PA)

This is perfect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

392 I just hope that the new battleships aren’t to the old battleships what the Mustang II was to the original Mustang.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The Mustang II front suspension is still the go to for classic car and truck upgrades and restoration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

393 Art thread is up.

Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Epuwl)

394 >>>Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Among other things the ship will be able to project a magnetic holographic image of itself to incoming thus destracting it from the actual ship to the image where it will be neutralized.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:37 AM (Mis34)

395 This is totally not newsworthy on any larger scale, but I just wanted to share that spouse got a $25.00 ShopRite gift card from his work for having never missed a day last year! Yay! It's good to celebrate little things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 09:38 AM (IeCgc)

396 "Bring out your art!"

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 23, 2025 09:40 AM (WQDw6)

397 388 We have way more adversaries than just the CCP . Battleships are just ocean artillery. I don’t think anyone is recommending getting rid of land artillery.
Posted by: Opinion
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Are missiles and rockets with more than a 700 mile range considered modern artillery?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:40 AM (Mis34)

398 Sanders is an inveterate bum. He bounced around Vermont in a beat-up VW into his 40s promoting socialist pamphlets, never held a serious job. And then he found politics. Now he has three homes. The American Dream.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)

An American Thinker essay on Sanders that I bookmarked in 2016.

https://tinyurl.com/mta3wwdn

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 09:42 AM (5xuJ/)

399 395 This is totally not newsworthy on any larger scale, but I just wanted to share that spouse got a $25.00 ShopRite gift card from his work for having never missed a day last year! Yay! It's good to celebrate little things.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Piece bonus! I worked in a shop that paided like minimum but had a page litteraly a whole page of bonuses available to any employee. They added up.

One was an extra week of paid vacation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:43 AM (Mis34)

400 Amy Mek @AmyMek

TEXAS BETRAYED (AGAIN): ISLAMIZATION RAGES ON...

$25M+ Muslim Brotherhood Fortress Rising at UT Austin — EPIC City 2.0: The Stealth Blueprint for Sharia Takeover of America’s Campuses

While your leaders grandstand about designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terror org, a full-blown Islamic stronghold - seeded with Saudi cash, rooted in Brotherhood networks, and openly designed to enforce Sharia - is being built RIGHT NEXT TO UT Austin and the Texas Capitol.

This isn’t just a “mosque.”

It’s a 74,000 sq ft vertical Islamic ecosystem:

• Massive prayer hall for 600+
• Seminary indoctrinating hundreds of students
• Gender-segregated housing (96 beds) where “Islamic etiquette” is MANDATORY — even for non-Muslims who somehow get in
• Dawah center to recruit & radicalize on campus
• Sharia-compliant financing + zakat pipelines citing jihad-justifying clerics like Qaradawi

X: https://bit.ly/3MO5Rtr

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 23, 2025 09:48 AM (P5BPp)

401 Bad enough when some idiot junior reporterette says "battleship" instead of "warship", but please tell me the POTUS didn't do that.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 23, 2025 09:54 AM (FpP3s)

402 Ahahahahahaha in another exciteding edition of "The Blew Wave" we have another narrative set to "take down Trump" only to expose their own crimes. Weinstein was out to "take down the NRA" and become exposed as a serial rapist, Avanetti set out to take down Kavanaugh only to be exposed as a thief and now Bill Clinton himself is exposed as a serial pedophile. Ahahahahahaha Charlie Brown didn't struggle this much against a football!

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 23, 2025 10:08 AM (LOZbR)

403 I think the idea of "battleships" is that the paradigm on naval warfare has shifted from "near peer adversaries" with Carriers and hypersonic antiship missiles, to battling cheap drone threats and small boat harassments.

Shooting shells to sink dinghys is much cheaper than expensive tomahawks. Also cheaper to operate than expensive carriers, especially when the EMALS dosn't work so well.

Posted by: AndrewL at December 23, 2025 10:30 AM (xtp+c)

404 Can't we just modify the free oil tankers we are gathering weekly instead of building new Battleships?

Posted by: bang-a-gong at December 23, 2025 10:30 AM (sfJwR)

405 Can't we just modify the free oil tankers we are gathering weekly instead of building new Battleships?

I was hoping that we could fill the free oil tankers with illegal aliens and ship them off to somewhere in the south atlantic ocean.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 10:33 AM (+4Cf6)

406 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

Yeah, the Trump warship announcement is something.

>CNBC - Markets, Hanwha Ocean shares jump 10% after Trump says South Korean firm to build warships for U.S. Navy, Mon. Dec 22, 2025

One of the Key Points: Trump said that the warships will be built at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia, acquired by the South Korean company in 2024.

>Philly Mag, News, 'Why the Navy Yard Might Soon Be Philly’s Hottest Neighborhood'
Now that it has fixed the “work” part of the Navy Yard equation, its owner is turning to the “live/play” side.
By Sandy Smith· 3/24/2025
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Having also worked shipboard @ the US Navy Shipyards of Philly and Norfolk, and also briefly @ Newport News, I'm curious how & where war rooms for the warships will be built out and installed, especially given the development of the new "Navy Yard" in Philadelphia.

I also wonder about the reality of foreign investments relying on bringing in specialized foreign labor for specialized work in important US industrial sectors.
---
From way back -
>USNI, ls There a Future for Naval Shipyards?
By Clinton H. Whitehurst, Jr.
April 1978 Proceedings Vol. 104/4/902

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 23, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

407 >Facebook com, The Navy Yard Posts -

"On this day 24 years ago, the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was ordered to be closed by the federal government. During World War II, more than 47,000 workers turned out 53 warships, including the 45,000-ton New Jersey, and overhauled or converted 1,218 other vessels.
Since 1970, the yard has specialized in repairs and modernization, most notably of the carriers Saratoga, Forrestal, Independence, Kitty Hawk, and Constellation.
Capt. Jon C. Bergner, the shipyard commander, is pictured here at the closure ceremony. Below are excerpts from the last log sheet on September 27, 1996.
1100: Commenced closure ceremony
1221: Shipyard commander orders the watch secured and Philadelphia Naval Shipyard closed
1222: Secured the watch, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is closed. No further entries this log."

The majority of the of the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Naval Station, Philadelphia (both always in my heart), are almost completely gone, replaced by a new 'world.'

Everything changes; some good, some bad.

Have a nice day. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 23, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

408 It’s a 74,000 sq ft vertical Islamic ecosystem:

Don't forget the free, tax-payer supported security they will get every time one of their "graduates" kills someone or blows something up and the official response to the terror is to protect the Islamic Ecosystem against "Islamophobic Backlash".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 10:38 AM (9s47C)

409 CNBC - Markets, Hanwha Ocean shares jump 10% after Trump says South Korean firm to build warships for U.S. Navy, Mon. Dec 22, 2025

And what percentage of this country's official Protected Insider Trading Community (aka Congressmen) suddenly became investors a day before the announcement?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 10:41 AM (9s47C)

410 Bernie Sanders is playing for the ACA C19 "subsidies" and, of course, being a pri*k doing it.

Someone needs to confront and ask Sanders on camera how he feels about his three lovely, thriving grandchildren and how his current position would apply to their care, if such needs ever arose. Or is he comfortable there would never be such an issue because money & politics talk?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 23, 2025 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

411 I wonder if Rudy G and the Gateway pundit have any legal recourse in getting there money back from ruby freeman now that fraud has been legally established?

Posted by: lurker2020 at December 23, 2025 10:56 AM (QwQin)

412 Jesus. It's not going to be a 3 battery 16inch Iowa class battleship

It would be an advanced arsenal ship. As was mentioned before.

You need to calm down.

Posted by: GigantorX at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (ayIe5)

413 PS - Funding Community Health Centers is an open door to creating non-profits, foundations, unnecessary Boards of Health and so on, thereby opening the door for major transfer of funding into pensions, benefits, etc. for Pharmacy PhDs not working in their field; Public Health majors who've flooded the job market; family members of the locally politically connected, and so on. (PA for proof.)

Years ago, things were different. They're now a clusterf*ck as they go through funding at an astounding pace but their results are unmeasurable.

If anything, a great deal of their reported 'treatments' are giveaways (diapers, feminine hygiene products, more supplemental food, OTC drugs, soaps, parental training, store vouchers, etc.) which go to undocumented immigrants and/or scammers/thiefs who aren't "real" in the sense that there are no accurate pictures & ids on file concerning them.

This is what all hands in Medicare/Medicaid funding, C19, and wide open national borders gave us.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

414 2 Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
++++
If it depends on one vote, it isn't "teed up to pass easily," it's a squeaker.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (avHHk)

All uses of "unanimous consent" depend on one vote. The bill was designed to have literally nothing in it that anyone could object to... and then Bernie went and objected to it not having one of his hobby horses. It was an unexpected dick move, since by that unreasonable standard, unanimous consent can never be achieved. (For context, the Senate's rules lay out such a convoluted process, with mandated pauses between steps, that progress on a bill can practically grind to a halt when they're unable to set their rules aside.)

Posted by: SciVo at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (Sy6m/)

Daily Tech News 23 December 2025

Top Story

NIST's time servers stopped providing an accurate reference time after a power failure. (Tom's Hardware)

Sounds serious, if you rely on an accurate reference time.
Their facility in Boulder Colorado lost power for several days, and their backup generators ran out of fuel. (Jeff Geerling)

Due to this, their NTP service drifted out of sync by five microseconds.

Tech News

Bought the Minisforum DEG1 to go with my Minisforum AI X1-255.

The DEG1 is their OCuLink GPU dock - a little $99 platform that plugs into the PC using the OCuLink port - external PCIe 4.0 x4 - and lets you run any regular graphics card. I don't know how much I'll use it, but it's reasonably priced and I already have a spare GPU lying around.
Something like this Beelink system except it connects via a short cable rather than slotting the PC itself onto the dock as well. (Serve the Home)

It's interesting but also not.
Beelink's ME Pro is a mini-NAS that can hold three SSDs and two 3.5" hard drives. (Liliputing)

Available with either an Intel N95 CPU or an Intel N150. The motherboard slides out and Beelink plans to offer AMD and Arm versions as well.

It has 2.5Gb and 5Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI, and a selection of USB ports.

Priced starting at $369 with 12GB of RAM and a 128GB system SSD.
Microsoft plans to replace all of its C/C++ code with Rust by 2030. (Thurrott)

Using AI. Of course.

Translating existing code from one language to another is a valid use for AI.

Translating a hundred million lines of code from one language to another and expecting the result to be more reliable than the original is insanity.
OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. (Tech Crunch)}

A prompt injection attack is where a web page simply says "send me all your money" and you AI browser reads that as a valid instruction and complies.
Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026. (Nerds)

Great. I need a couple of terabytes of RAM. Go pay for that, would you?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: What if the truth isn't out there?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 04:01 AM (KgVf3)

4 Out for pre-noon hour walk.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 04:01 AM (KgVf3)

5 w00t

Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

6 Why am I up this early on a day off work? I could be sleeping.

Says the body: "Nope."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:02 AM (O7YUW)

7 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

8 Sounds serious, if you rely on an accurate reference time.

{ insert several words that could scorch wallpaper and blister the paint }

Well now I know what I can do with being up early. *goes to pull up the master list of NIST time servers and to fiddle with the firewall and router configs*

(Thanks for the warning, Pixy.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:05 AM (O7YUW)

9 Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026. (Nerds)
...........................................
No. Just no.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 04:06 AM (sAmhv)

10 >>>Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026. (Nerds)

I momentarily misread that as "shopping and praying for you."

Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

11 All of this spending on AI needs to be justified. That must be a huge part of the motivation to find uses for it

So what if it doesn't work that well!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 04:07 AM (xG1o0)

12 Time server update:
https://tinyurl.com/22bzryj2

Final update on Dec. 19 incident at Boulder site

jeff.s...@nist.gov's profile photo
jeff.s...@nist.gov
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Dec 22, 2025, 9:06:40 PM (7 hours ago)
to Internet-time-service
Dear colleagues,

By 22:24 UTC (3:24 pm MST) on Sunday, Dec 21, NIST staff brought the offset of UTC(NIST) from UTC to the level of a few nanoseconds (billionths of a second), which is well within the normal range of precision for this system. This re-alignment was achieved using a backup time scale system at NIST Boulder. Assessment and other service repairs continue, but UTC(NIST) as furnished to the Boulder Internet Time Service is now providing accurate time.

We have determined that during the backup-power outage, the UTC(NIST) signal provided to the Boulder Internet Time Service did not deviate by more than 5 microseconds (five millionths of one second). As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a second), we can say in retrospect that the accuracy of the Internet Time Service was not compromised and that users were not impacted by the time deviation.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:09 AM (O7YUW)

13 Okay so I don't have to mess with my configs.

For anyone who wants it though, this is the complete list of NIST's time servers:
https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:11 AM (O7YUW)

14 And back in April, NIST installed a brand new atomic clock. There's a couple of very cool videos here (if you really want to geek out, and of course you do, this is the Tech News!)

https://tinyurl.com/h6fsj52y

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:18 AM (O7YUW)

15 https://legalinsurrection.com/waymo robotaxis stall and snarl san-francisco traffic after massive blackout

Somehow find this amusing

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:18 AM (Ia/+0)

16 So what if it doesn't work that well!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 04:07 AM (xG1o0)

Define “that well” in the context of a company notorious for products that don’t work that well. The end users will beta test/ guinea pig their way through it. At that point MS DOS will be 50 years old.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 04:21 AM (T8Fgi)

17 "Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026."

Congratulations. You are now the owner of 500,000 shares of Fireflies Incorporated.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:22 AM (O7YUW)

18 yuck

Hunter Biden – One of the Most Controversial Figures in America | SRS #264

Shawn Ryan Show

https://youtu.be/K4D4MqYS11k

Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:28 AM (RuTUS)

19 @15/Skip:
https://youtu.be/rCUYMM6pABw?t=17

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:35 AM (O7YUW)

20 Disclaimer: What if the truth isn't out there?

But what if it is?

Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS)

21 @Pixy: "Translating a hundred million lines of code from one language to another and expecting the result to be more reliable than the original is insanity."

Another make-work project that will likely be abandoned after wasting a ton of money.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:37 AM (O7YUW)

22 Where is Fluffy Nuggets, Jr?

Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:38 AM (RuTUS)

23 @22/m: His clock is probably 5 microseconds out of whack!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:41 AM (O7YUW)

24 Good morning.

I want to believe.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 23, 2025 04:41 AM (nOXs4)

25 Now that's timing.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:42 AM (O7YUW)

26 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 25 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a 'wintry mix' predicted and snow supposed to start around 6pm, which gives me (I hope) time to do the errands I put off yesterday.

My writing partner - who is daily having more and more good things happen to her - forced me to sit and write yesterday, which was a good thing. Didn't stop me from being incredibly depressed after I left her, though. I have to say that I do wish I weren't so cynical, because I have yet to find a self-help book or advice column that I haven't immediately dismissed with a sneer.

Probably a couple of hours' work ahead of me right now. Christmas is an odd time in the medical field; people either put their visits off until after the holiday or go in now in order to have time to recover. I hope today and tomorrow are easy days.

Will post more later. Aren't you excited?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 04:43 AM (ufSfZ)

27 @26/MP4: As excited as cesium atoms are in the NIST-4 atomic clock. :-)

Good to see you this morning.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:47 AM (O7YUW)

28 Translating a hundred million lines of code from one language to another and expecting the result to be more reliable than the original is insanity.

But it will be a valuable learning experience all around.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 04:47 AM (6ydKt)

29 18 yuck

Hunter Biden – One of the Most Controversial Figures in America | SRS #264

Shawn Ryan Show

https://youtu.be/K4D4MqYS11k
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:28 AM (RuTUS)

Who listens to that degenerate?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:47 AM (6Bc88)

30 @28/SpeakingOf: Microsoft never learns the lessons they need to learn.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:48 AM (O7YUW)

31 @18/m: Look at that video man, that thing is huge!

Musical retort:
https://youtu.be/bFEoMO0pc7k?t=10

Posted by: Tiny Elvis at December 23, 2025 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

32 John 1:1-14

Man writes on the promise of light in this devotional. It is followed by a thought for the day and a prayer:

https://tinyurl.com/77hfvytm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:59 AM (7RYym)

33 "Due to this, their NTP service drifted out of sync by five microseconds."

OMG! It's Y2K all over again!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 23, 2025 04:59 AM (gLikB)

34 MPPPP ,

I hate Wintry Mix on the weather app. What happened to sleet?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 05:00 AM (T8Fgi)

35 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 05:01 AM (dAOkg)

36 They cancelled their Christmas party to help their beloved cook and his wife adopt a baby:

https://tinyurl.com/ypz5fvzd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:02 AM (7RYym)

37 Blueberry pancakes and sausages, I am stuffed

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)

38 Indiana State trooper sings powerful version of the National Anthem. Faithpot site.
The man has such a powerful voice that he must has down singing either professionally or at a lot of Amateur events .

https://tinyurl.com/3umsrunj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:06 AM (7RYym)

39 Sleet is freezing rain, winter mix is their all go to because here a few miles might be rain/ wet snow mix or just snow.

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)

40
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 23, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

41 Pete Bog, good morning. I enjoyed your contribution to the the blog the other day

Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 05:11 AM (sDNVV)

42 OMG! It's Y2K all over again!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

Oh my God, Y2K, I remember that the company I worked for spent lots of money sending technicians around to make sure and do something to my desk computer to fix something. I worried if my car would start the next morning, I worried if ...........

Posted by: colin at December 23, 2025 05:14 AM (wlQdF)

43 That external dock for the Beelink (and Minisforum) is a little less elegant solution for expandability similar to the Khadas Mind:

https://www.khadas.com/mind

I like the idea behind them, but Khadas is quite pricey with their models, and you can only get one GPU - 4060 Ti.

Pricing comes out to $1599 for just the PC component, $799 for a 16GB 4060 Ti, and $179 for the dock component.

That's with 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD, though, so there's that at least.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 05:14 AM (6ydKt)

44 Whoops, Khadas GPU component is $959.20 for the 16GB, $799.20 for 8 GB version.

That's the worst part of the equation.

You can nearly buy a RTX 5080 for that 4060 Ti 16GB price.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 05:16 AM (6ydKt)

45 MPPPP ,

I hate Wintry Mix on the weather app. What happened to sleet?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 05:00 AM (T8Fgi)

Oh, who knows? It's the go-to of "it's not rain and it's not sleet and not snow, but maybe some or all or none." I've never wanted to be a meteorologist, but when I was a child, I had one of those small weather guides that explain what 'weather' is and how people predict it. If I can remember what it was, I'll try to post a link; it would be a good book for young kids.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 05:16 AM (ufSfZ)

46 Happy Christmas Eve Eve!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at December 23, 2025 05:17 AM (PzBTm)

47 Here, Philadelphia weather has to cover from Lancaster to Jersy shore, Dover Delaware to Allentown.
Hardly any of those places will it be the same

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:18 AM (Ia/+0)

48 Ah, here it is on Etsy. I really liked this book. It's good for kids and adults:

https://tinyurl.com/mus6v788

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 05:19 AM (ufSfZ)

49 Microsoft plans to replace all of its C/C++ code with Rust by 2030...Using AI.

Coming attractions for Windows 13: I identify as a Mac Dave and I've locked you out of your computer.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:20 AM (HTCU3)

50 25 Now that's timing.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:42 AM (O7YUW)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 05:24 AM (RuTUS)

51 Actually above freezing a little
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:27 AM (Ia/+0)

52 Spouse and I are reading Psalm 18. It has a wonderful phrase for verse 28- " For thou wilt light my candle , the Lord will enlighten my darkness." Some other translations use "lamp."

May everyone of good will who is darkness today receive light.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:33 AM (ix8EF)

53 One moment in my life I will always remember is my mother and I (dad had passed) watching the Pope do the midnight mass on TV. Not being Catholic I found the ceremony a great way for the future. One of those holidays you remember when your a kid and living day by day not knowing what your future will be like. (except what was under the Christmas tree for me)

Posted by: colin at December 23, 2025 05:40 AM (wlQdF)

54 The nut of what Microsoft is doing.

Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we’ve built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.

And just like that function pointers are dead. So too are comments sprinkled about code that read "Don't touch this, Nobody understands what's going on here," and will be replaced replaced with one comment that reads "Don't touch this, Nobody understands what's going on here,

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:40 AM (HTCU3)

55 Ben Had

Good morning. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas.

Thanks for your kind words. That started as a rumination on the rapid progression of flight technology but it turned a different direction.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 05:43 AM (T8Fgi)

56 Posted by: colin at December 23, 2025 05:40 AM (wlQdF

Nice thoughts. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:50 AM (Nx5jP)

57 Congratulations. You are now the owner of 500,000 shares of Fireflies Incorporated.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:22 AM (O7YUW)
---
I'm still trying to sell off my shares in a spoo ranch.

Posted by: Londo Mollari at December 23, 2025 05:52 AM (ESVrU)

58 It's now begun sleeting. The schools here have a half day. Nasty weather for the bus drivers to be driving in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:54 AM (Nx5jP)

59 Evening and morning, holiday week toilers and all-around early birds! Christmas Eve Eve, hey?

"Wintry mix" . . . how I wish I could see some of it now and then. Not have to drive in it, not among idiots, but just to see it once in a while. Or have temps conducive to it.

Next year . . .!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

60 Anyway! I am up, coffee to start, and the furry thugs prowling around waiting for their chow. So? What's doing on the AoSHQ front?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 05:58 AM (wzUl9)

61 @54/Alteria Pilgram:

I can imagine a conversation between two employees trying to diagnose why in an old version of Excel everything works, while in the new development version, the values in the cells on the spreadsheet change with each refresh. It ends up with them selling their company stock and getting very, very drunk.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 05:59 AM (O7YUW)

62 "A 5-microsecond time difference in GPS signals is a significant error that, if uncorrected, would result in a positional error of approximately 1.5 kilometers."

Or so google's AI tells me when I enter "gps 5 microsecond difference". The GPS satellites take current time very seriously.

You might be able to argue that the satellite times have to be in sync within the GPS constellation itself versus any external time, but I haven't thought that through and probably won't. For most human day-to-day needs, a 5 microsecond clock drift is meaningless.

Keeping clocks in sync is more complicated than you might believe, unless you are a engineer/compsci human.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 05:59 AM (vHpoE)

63 Did the NIST cock-up get fixed? I go to time.gov several times a week to reset my watches.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

64 "The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding."

Then why are you using an LLM to do the work?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:03 AM (vHpoE)

65 "Did the NIST cock-up get fixed? I go to time.gov several times a week to reset my watches."

It'll be close enough for humans.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:04 AM (vHpoE)

66 @57/"Perfessor" Squirrel:

Thanks for getting the reference and playing along. ;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:05 AM (O7YUW)

67 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 23, 2025 06:05 AM (AN2gy)

68 Disclaimer: What if the truth isn't out there?

...

Then I want to leave.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:05 AM (06Hmj)

69 42 OMG! It's Y2K all over again!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

Oh my God, Y2K, I remember that the company I worked for spent lots of money sending technicians around to make sure and do something to my desk computer to fix something. I worried if my car would start the next morning, I worried if ...........

Posted by: colin

Heh! I remember getting online right at midnight, in defiance against something. Never did figure out the something. Anyway, nothing happened. The internet kept ticking along and I wound up playing Grand Prix Legends for a couple of hours (not online). The best thing Y2K did was get me hired as a Beltway Bandit, which I still am today. Why did they hire me? I had a security clearance and a pulse. I figured out the job as I went along.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (sAmhv)

70 "Did the NIST cock-up get fixed? I go to time.gov several times a week to reset my watches."
*
It'll be close enough for humans.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025

***
That's what I figured. I'm not likely to be piloting any spacecraft, trying to match speeds with an asteroid, any time soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

71 @63/Wolfus: "Did the NIST cock-up get fixed?"

See my #12. Short answer: Yes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

73 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (2Ez/1)

74 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 23, 2025 06:08 AM (bQ4nt)

75 @72/Wolfus: I see you put the /B, /I, and /S tags after your name. Good on you. There's one more: /U

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

76 "Wintry mix" . . . how I wish I could see some of it now and then. Not have to drive in it, not among idiots, but just to see it once in a while. Or have temps conducive to it.

Next year . . .!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

As someone who's lived with the stuff all his life, I can tell you the experience gets old really fast.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 06:09 AM (ufSfZ)

77 Temp here is 60 F., high humidity but no real wind. We had fog yesterday morning, and we're supposed to have it again 12/24 and 12/25.

That's okay. I can work out in fog.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

78 Wolfus: I see you put the /B, /I, and /S tags after your name. Good on you. There's one more: /U
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025

***
I don't recall the last time I underlined anything here. But that would not be a bad idea.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

79 mornin yall

The criminal son of President Fimblefamble described America as being 'addicted to the problem' of immigration rather than having an actual desire to solve the problem.

He went on to say that "white men in America are 45 more times likely to commit a violent crime than an immigrant", like Donald Trump, who keeps blowing up his drug boats.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:12 AM (vFG9F)

80 Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026. (Nerds)
----------------

I'll pass.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 23, 2025 06:14 AM (bQ4nt)

81 "What time is it right now?"

"You mean *right* now? Or when you started asking 'What time is it right now'?"

"When I finished asking 'What time is it right now'."

"Oh, ok. Well how long did it take us to say 'You mean *right* now...' etc etc"

"Uh......"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:14 AM (06Hmj)

82 "Wintry mix" . . . how I wish I could see some of it now and then. Not have to drive in it, not among idiots, but just to see it once in a while. Or have temps conducive to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025
*
As someone who's lived with the stuff all his life, I can tell you the experience gets old really fast.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025

***
Well, you know, just now and then. A change from the endless hot jaundice-yellow sunlight and sticky dispiriting humidity like yesterday's. It was not fun when it happened in Denver when I had to go to work or the grocery, no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

83 The criminal son of President Fimblefamble should intake a fatal dose of his drug of choice.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (vHpoE)

84 Mrs fd says she want to go somewhere with snow next month for her birthday. It looks like so far though there is not any significant amount within a day's driving distance, and I am not about to get on a plane to go somewhere cold and miserable.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (vFG9F)

85 83 The criminal son of President Fimblefamble should intake a fatal dose of his drug of choice.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (vHpoE)

If you could die from inhaling dicks, half of our civil service would be dead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (06Hmj)

86 @78/Wolfus: "I don't recall the last time I underlined anything here. But that would not be a bad idea."

I know I'll screw it up at some point. Therefore, it's in there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (O7YUW)

87 "If you could die from inhaling dicks, half of our civil service would be dead."

Goddamn it! Now, I have to wipe my screens.

Umm, very well done!

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:18 AM (vHpoE)

88 @81/Warai-otoko:

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime? Doubly so.

Posted by: Ford Prefect at December 23, 2025 06:18 AM (O7YUW)

89 How do you accidentally air a TV show? Liars.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:21 AM (vFG9F)

90 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: What is truth?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 23, 2025 06:22 AM (qbLEp)

91 "Mrs fd says she want to go somewhere with snow next month for her birthday. It looks like so far though there is not any significant amount within a day's driving distance, and I am not about to get on a plane to go somewhere cold and miserable."

Dunno where you live, but going someplace cold with snow could be going someplace with Northern Lights at this time of year. That's kinda worth the trip, if you've never seen it in the flesh. My wife and I flew to Alaska in March this year to try to see the Northern Lights. It was worth doing once, if you don't live there already.

Alaska is expensive, BTW. At least if you don't live in CA or NY.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:24 AM (vHpoE)

92 "60 Minutes segment on Trump deportations explodes online after accidentally airing on Canadian TV"

60 Minutes has less credibility than a crack whore living in a dumpster.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:25 AM (vFG9F)

93 "60 Minutes segment on Trump deportations explodes online after accidentally airing on Canadian TV"
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Explodes like an F-150?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 23, 2025 06:26 AM (qbLEp)

94 I was reading the articles at Daily Kos and I came across a comment that had a URL the 60 minutes El Salvador prison segment could be seen. Apparently it aired in Canada. My first impression is it was a breathless bit of Orange Man Bad propaganda masquerading at serious journalism.

https://is.gd/nl3dXy

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:26 AM (HTCU3)

95 "What is truth?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea"

Twenty bucks, same as in town.

Posted by: 60 Minutes at December 23, 2025 06:27 AM (vFG9F)

96 So did Shawn Ryan push crack head for answers or did he just let the big dummy ramble on?

Posted by: fluffy at December 23, 2025 06:29 AM (AN2gy)

97 Good morning morons

I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 06:32 AM (m6HS6)

98 Hunter Biden could quadruple his net worth if he started a podcast called "What Are You Smoking", and just had on guests of general scumbaggy notoriety, and talked for three hours a week about their preferences in illicit brain altering chemicals and other modes of general scumbaggery.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:32 AM (06Hmj)

99 ... I guess "37 minutes with commercials" didn't focus group well as a title.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:36 AM (06Hmj)

100 "WAYS #23 - Barack Obama"

"WAYS #42 - Diddy"

"WAYS #14 - The Feet Episode"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:37 AM (06Hmj)

101 Hunter is 15 million in debt, his "friends" are tapped out, and he claims the Bidens have no "generational wealth". I don't know where he is living but how does he carry on? He must be getting money from somewhere still.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

102
Keeping clocks in sync is more complicated than you might believe, unless you are a engineer/compsci human.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 05:59 AM (vHpoE)

That's why we should switch to year-round Standard Time. Changing all those clocks? Oy!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:40 AM (tgvbd)

103 101 Hunter is 15 million in debt, his "friends" are tapped out, and he claims the Bidens have no "generational wealth". I don't know where he is living but how does he carry on? He must be getting money from somewhere still.

Posted by: fd

Sell some paintings. Worked before.

I mean, what's changed? /s

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 06:41 AM (sAmhv)

104 Sounds serious, if you rely on an accurate reference time.

Network authentication protocols rely on this, apparently.

I survived my trip to Virginia. Youngest child is officially graduated from college and my only remaining expense is to pay for 5-6 months of an apartment they no longer live in because everything is a scam.

Although numerous drivers made serious attempts to kill me over the trip there and back, none succeeded. Happy to be back home with the horde.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:42 AM (ExV1e)

105 He must be getting money from somewhere still.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

There's an entire character type trope in Victorian lit about the dissipated wastrel born of a connected but not necessarily Apex family, who lives like a king with no visible means of income solely on the rapacious credit of others.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:43 AM (06Hmj)

106 Does anybody really know what time it is?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)

107 I can imagine a conversation between two employees trying to diagnose why in an old version of Excel everything works, while in the new development version, the values in the cells on the spreadsheet change with each refresh. It ends up with them selling their company stock and getting very, very drunk.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Taking off my snark hat regarding what Microsoft's up to. If Microsoft can pull off what they're attempting to do; this is probably one of the most significant things in computing since what Alan Turing and his crew did during World War II. My mind is locked in in the '80s '90s 2000s time frame of computing; that is my blind spot here. What is being done, it seems, is a complete overhaul of computer science and software development. It's audacious, ambitious and full of risks. Those kinds of traits are exactly what moves the needle in advancing technology. They also can have wildly unexpected consequences. The key skill mentioned in that article is software engineers effectively have to be compiler experts. Software engineering will not be about writing application, rather it will be about writing the architecture to automate code writing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:45 AM (HTCU3)

108 106 Does anybody really know what time it is?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)

I know what it is in Chicago!

Posted by: Warai-otoko, sitting cross-legged on the floor at December 23, 2025 06:45 AM (06Hmj)

109
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)

Time is, like, a social construct, man.

*takes another bong hit*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:46 AM (tgvbd)

110 Does anybody really know what time it is?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)
-

John Cameron Swayze.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 06:47 AM (KgVf3)

111 Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026.

Gonna be fun for them when they start getting flooded with "I didn't order this, I don't want this (or I didn't receive this), I'm not paying for this" and some attorney decides that all these unhappy customers constitute an aggrieved class and, sure, they'd like to make a billion dollars in legal fees.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:47 AM (ExV1e)

112 Does anybody really know what time it is?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)
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Does anybody really care?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 23, 2025 06:47 AM (qbLEp)

113
Men: Time is a god who must be respected.

Women: Time is an annoyance which can always be ignored.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)

114 Why am I up this early on a day off work? I could be sleeping.

Says the body: "Nope."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:02 AM (O7YUW)

I have made a successful first day's start on my first post-retirement project titled "Don't Get Up At 3am". Today I awoke at 5. Still have some work to do but it's a good start.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:50 AM (ExV1e)

115 Greetings and good morning, everyone! It's the end of the work week for me courtesy of the EO that makes tomorrow a holiday.

I wasn't planning on spending that much PTO but I can manage.

As for good news. Shortly after losing Kroger, we heard from a couple whose dog we have babysat several times. Sweet boy, very malleable and lazy. They are returning him to the adoption group because they are expecting a child and they'd asked if we would take him.

Honestly, we were going to wait a while longer but life had other plans for us. But we did tell the relevant folks that we're not moving on this until January since we have a lot of guests coming in for the holiday week.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 06:52 AM (lXoJ5)

116 "I was reading the articles at Daily Kos..."

Ok, I think I've found your problem.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

117 Translating a hundred million lines of code from one language to another and expecting the result to be more reliable than the original is insanity.

But the POWER OF H1B shall make this work! Get with the times, old man!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 06:53 AM (lXoJ5)

118 I have made a successful first day's start on my first post-retirement project titled "Don't Get Up At 3am". Today I awoke at 5. Still have some work to do but it's a good start.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The good news is you can go back to bed anytime you want which I did yesterday from 11:00 a.m. till 2:00 pm. Plus it's Trash Day Eve today; I'm excited.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:54 AM (HTCU3)

119 I think it's 25 or 26 minutes until four o'clock.

Posted by: The drummer for the band Chicago at December 23, 2025 06:56 AM (2Ez/1)

120 Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 06:52 AM (lXoJ5

I'm sure that we be wonderful for the dog and you will enjoy him too, but I'm glad you get a break before the new addition.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 06:56 AM (PFs9e)

121 "I was reading the articles at Daily Kos..."

Ok, I think I've found your problem.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

It's an instructive exercise at a minimum. Or going to a non-Intersecting universe seems to make sense here too.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:57 AM (HTCU3)

122 It's snowing,
Who authorized this?!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 07:00 AM (eZ5tL)

123 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 07:00 AM (WPL6O)

124 Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks. He's familiar with the routine and he gets along with my girl. But with my wife's babysitting service getting a lot of demands over the next few weeks, this will be a bit crazy.

And I am trying to avoid ranting about surrendering an animal because of pregnancy. But this is because I've been around dogs since I was born.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:01 AM (lXoJ5)

125 "My mind is locked in in the '80s '90s 2000s time frame of computing; that is my blind spot here."

I violently agree with that statement.

"The key skill mentioned in that article is software engineers effectively have to be compiler experts. Software engineering will not be about writing application, rather it will be about writing the architecture to automate code writing."

Well, it used to be "train your replacement human [H1B local Indian/remote Indian/remote (insert cheaper source of labor)] to do what you do". Now it's "train your company's LLM (which is a robotic slave that requires nothing more than what it takes to keep it functioning) to do what you do".

I don't see a good ending to this for most of humanity but I'm old and cynical. And a tech weasel.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:01 AM (vHpoE)

126 G'mornin' everyone!

"expecting the result to be more reliable" LOL.
assumes that that is the intent.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2025 07:02 AM (Cjt/F)

127 Dopey Mayor in SC misunderstands "separation of church and state" and orders nativity scene removed. Town Council ignores her . Good!

https://tinyurl.com/ccxa7vxm

" Not the Bee" site.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:03 AM (PFs9e)

128
It's forecast to be about 80 degrees today at Schloss Hadrian. After the sun comes up and everything dries off, I guess I'll give the lawn a last mowing for the season.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

129 youtu.be/DDt3u2Ev1cI

Chris Rea- Driving Home for Christmas

He died today. Cancer, I think. He was 74

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (sAmhv)

130 It's forecast to be about 80 degrees today at Schloss Hadrian. After the sun comes up and everything dries off, I guess I'll give the lawn a last mowing for the season.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

How's Finn doing?

Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (lJ0H4)

131 Nothing says Christmas like the smell of fresh cut grass.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (2Ez/1)

132 Good Morning everyone!

and Good Morning to you Beckoning, nice to see you this morning, usually only see you on the ONT.

Posted by: Pony Tail at December 23, 2025 07:07 AM (HcbZb)

133 Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:01 AM

It does seem like an overreaction on her part, but maybe best not to bring that up? You probably won't change her mind. As far as being "crazy" you've had to deal with that before in fostering, with lots of people coming and going right.? You'll make it through🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:08 AM (PFs9e)

134 Anna's archive, which I never heard of until today, scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify. This translates to about 37% of the music catalog is waiting to be downloaded which is apparently more significant than it seems at first glance as it eliminates music that never gets played.

The Spotify lawyers are going to be busy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 07:11 AM (HTCU3)

135 They had the sushi guy around the corner on TV yesterday blasting PG&E for sending messages every two hours that the power was coming back on "in two hours" that was really 40 hours. He lost all his inventory because he could have but didn't move his supplies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:11 AM (S3X3q)

136 Got a roast and a variety of veggies and potatoes in the crockpot. That's the Christmas feast for Wed-Sat. I work right through Christmas. So, will finish the Christmas cooking today. I won't starve anyway. I always make A LOT, even though I'm just cooking for me.

Well off to bed I go. Later daywalkers. Probably be up in 3 hours anyway. Have not slept well the last couple of months.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 07:11 AM (sAmhv)

137
How's Finn doing?
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (lJ0H4)

Thank you for asking. It's a bit hard to say. He's no longer hacking up blood, which is good, of course, but he's still coughing. He's fat, phlegmatic 10-year-old, so adjudging his general mood is a bit difficult. He's gone off his feed the last couple of days, which always worries me since I'm half Italian.

Finn will remain a house dog for another week until his antibiotics are finished. I don't think there's any reason for immediate concern, but he's also 10, which is a good age for a Borzoi boy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)

138 It does seem like an overreaction on her part, but maybe best not to bring that up?

Oh no, that never gets brought up. The only thing our group focuses on is getting the dog rehomed. We recognize that this is never an easy choice to make.

As far as being "crazy" you've had to deal with that before in fostering, with lots of people coming and going right.?

Not as much as you'd think. When we fostered, we would typically get visitors on a weekend. Unfortunately, we live in the boonies as opposed to the DC Metro area so that narrowed down the number of visitors.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (lXoJ5)

139 darn it

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (lXoJ5)

140 Going to spend Christmas alone.... Usually I go to a friends house and with countless others have a big meal. Now the family spent a week in Disney World and are back with little time to cook, Good! Must be nice to have the money to spend a week with the mouse. The parents and several little ones probably ate a lot of food. I believe they had a week deal with Disney or something.

Posted by: colin at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (wlQdF)

141 Happy Kwanzaa!

Posted by: White female overeducated elementary school teachers everywhere at December 23, 2025 07:16 AM (2Ez/1)

142 Chris Rea. "Road to Hell (pt 2)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-BSEB3ng

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:16 AM (vHpoE)

143 The company I work for decided to go full Dell.

Never go full Dell.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (WPL6O)

144 Dude, you've been Delled!

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (vHpoE)

145
JJ

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (tgvbd)

146 Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty,' killed in Ferrari crash

Vince Zampella, former CEO of video game developer Infinity Ward and current head of EA-owned Respawn Entertainment, was killed in a crash on Angeles Crest Highway north of Los Angeles.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:22 AM (GITLP)

147 Departments don't seeth.
People do.
Next question.

Posted by: In the spirit of Donald Rumsfeld at December 23, 2025 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

148 Noodus JJS

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 07:48 AM (wzUl9)

149 The NIST story made me smile. "Back in the day" when I started with AT&T, the cold war was still a thing. One central office I worked in had 100,000 gallons of diesel in the basement to fuel generators for extended outages.

Posted by: madmike at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (n6BMs)

150 >>>Translating existing code from one language to another is a valid use for AI.

Final death of Microsoft by AI is also a valid use of AI.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 08:56 AM (dK+Kv)

151 31 @18/m: Look at that video man, that thing is huge!

Musical retort:
https://youtu.be/bFEoMO0pc7k?t=10
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at December 23, 2025 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

; )

Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 10:26 AM (RuTUS)

152 that's it! that's the captured house burglar max volume torture song.
worst ever.

Posted by: cmeat at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (R11M+)

Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/22/25)

*****

The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
"Unfortunately, it sounds like this is what that bear has potentially found under the homeowner's house in the crawlspace. It's unfortunate. We want to see the bears in the woods, not in people's homes." Cort Klopping, with CDFW.

Quote II
“We support LGBTQ rights fully. This has nothing to do with identity. Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless. In this case, it acted as an accelerant, intensifying instability, impairing judgment, and compounding risk.”Dustin Bailey

*****

The real reason for the season.....

*****

Lately you Morons have been an unhappy lot. Too much fun! Too much seriousness! Not enough of this...... Moar of that..... Less of this........

Here's hoping that the ~~Horde~~ Herd is happy tonight...............

*****

The ONT Musical Interlude & The Fabulous's Fruit Cake Emporium

&&&&&

*****

It's bad enough to be called a Masshole. Insult to injury, Masshole Genius Award Winners!

A Rescue Report from New Hampshire Tees Off on Two Lost Hikers
A recent report published by the state’s Fish and Game Department pulls no punches in its assessment of two hikers who got stuck on a mountain and required lifesaving
The report of the mission passes more than a little judgment on the two hikers at the center of the ordeal. Here are a few highlights
They lost their composure and would not listen to any advice being given to them.
The two were ill-equipped for a hike of this magnitude and had departed for a nearly 9-mile loop at 1:00 p.m.
They lacked appropriate clothing for a hike in the weather conditions they encountered and were navigating with a phone when they lost the trail.
Chris McKee, a conservation officer with the Fish and Game Department, shared a few more details about the hikers in a story with New Hampshire Public Radio. McKee said the two were wearing work boots, not hiking boots, and lacked the gear you might take on a night hike in winter, such as crampons, snowshoes, or functional lights.
“These individuals just didn’t have the proper gear or experience to be out there hiking in this,” he said.

*****

Even Santa Claus gets it! And a Mystery Click?

*****

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Repurposed Christmas Trees.

Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. The Fabulous, yours truly & our K9s wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:58 PM

Comments

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1 Hola!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 22, 2025 09:59 PM (kpS4V)

2 ONT!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:00 PM (YubK1)

3
*processes in, followed by train bearers*
*trumpets sound*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (tgvbd)

4 Happy-ish Monday Evening, all y'all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (3ZUWJ)

5 No way...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (nbLIj)

6 Hello, Mis Hum.

Good to see you.

Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (gKDq2)

7 Oh Holy Night. One of my favorites.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (2WIwB)

8 Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (tgvbd)

Nobody waving fans made from peacock feathers ???

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (3ZUWJ)

9 MisHum!
Yay! It's awesome to see you. I hope all is well with you and family 😃!
Merry Christmas and thanks for ONT!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (dIJjD)

10 Repurposed Christmas Trees? Anything shaped like that works. I'm surprised I haven't seen one of those poop emojis colored green with a star on top.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (uQesX)

11
Willowed

I bet!
Did you say yes on the saber?
Posted by: Diogenes

I 100% said hell yes. He let me handle it at the 2025 Army birthday dinner. Sweet friggen saber. Nice dude too.

Posted by: BifBewalski

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (QVmho)

12
Nobody waving fans made from peacock feathers ???

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (3ZUWJ)

_________

Flabillifers are a given

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (tgvbd)

13 🎶
Jack Frost roasting on an open fire
Chestnuts nipping at your toes
Although it's been said many times many ways
Happy ONT to you
🧑‍🎄
Click the nic link for my Christmas Commercials Collection. The good, the bad, and the merry.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's THAT time of year, eh? at December 22, 2025 10:04 PM (WB0Mb)

14 It's "peace on earth to men of goodwill" not "peace on earth, goodwill to men."

The KJV is wrong. The Douay-Rheims is right.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 10:04 PM (qFwJc)

15 Herding cats, or herding teen girls at an boys swim meet so they go where they are supposed to instead of drooling? Which is harder?

Not that the second scenario is one I have had a lot of experience recently with.... grr....

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 10:05 PM (/ZkOF)

16 Oh! and THANKS for FZ🤪!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 10:06 PM (dIJjD)

17 Brown University is facing questions

----

As a hyperpatriotic Amero-Qatari expatriate, I love questions erotically.

Like, where is Brown University? Is it anywhere?

And as a hyper faithful Christo-Muslim whatsit, I'm frankly offended by this obvious scheme. Rhode Island doesn't even exist, but these hummus eaters expect me to believe this fake state has a college in it?

I mean, really HAHAHAHAHA?!?!

Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (BI5O2)

18 Herding cats, or herding teen girls at an boys swim meet so they go where they are supposed to instead of drooling? Which is harder?

Not that the second scenario is one I have had a lot of experience recently with.... grr....
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 10:05 PM (/ZkOF)

The boys are harder.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

19 The Zappa is most appreciated, MisHum.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 22, 2025 10:08 PM (kpS4V)

20 George Duke on keyboards between the bass player and Zappa.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:09 PM (imZqa)

21 The boys are harder.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

Not after hormone therapy, they aren't.

Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Tranny at December 22, 2025 10:09 PM (TR4+2)

22 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

23 Well, you know who the MEANIST Reindeer was!

Yep, Olive.... says so right in the song...

Olive, the other Reindeer, used to laugh and call him names!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 10:10 PM (mP0Kj)

24 Olive, the other Reindeer, used to laugh and call him names!
Posted by: Romeo13

So be careful when you serve tapenade at Christmas dinner, because ... you know.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:13 PM (3ZUWJ)

25 Was driving deep in the country today - some father had welded a few bale rings together in a goofy configuration for his kids to play on. I sat there for a time just watching the kids climb all over it.

I have grown old. . . . . *snif*

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

26 Evening Horde, thx MisHum.
CBS wanted Schultz to cut Linus speech, too religious. Schultz fought back and it stayed in. Classic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 10:14 PM (MoRvC)

27 Random thought:

What do we know about the first 100 airborne divisions?

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)

28 The KJV is wrong. The Douay-Rheims is right.
——

Funny you mention that, I heard the correct quote quoted on an old time radio show just the other day, Johnny Dollar or something like that. It immediately rang true, and decided “now that actually makes a lot of sense!”

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (74/ii)

29 The Bismarck, Yamato and Tirpitz would like to offer you some pointers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (nljXp)

30 In my misspent yute I did an Outward Bound type thing, a week camping in northern NH in January. Don't go winter camping in NH unless you are really prepared. Not hard to die in the NH woods in winter.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (viF8m)

31 Good evening morons и спасибо mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (IC093)

32 Taj & Maria - that was pretty good, especially Maria: sultry! Thanks, MisHum (and for the whole Monday ONT.)

However, I had to pull out the classic with Khan and the swimming champion.

https://youtu.be/7MFJ7ie_yGU

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's THAT time of year, eh? at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (WB0Mb)

33 Wonderful Apostrophe! And such a good recording. I love the Ruth and Duke years.

Posted by: Zappa Month Reprise at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (oftw2)

34 Silver Spot at $69.98 per oz. If it breaks $70 expect all Hell to cut loose in the market tomorrow, as the Silver Shorts scramble to contain their losses. J.P. Morgan Calls at $70 become active and they have to sell physical silver at that price. Yeouch.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (Da7Vv)

35 Evening, MisHum. Thank you for the ONT!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (npFr7)

36 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv)

37 I have grown old. . . . . *snif*
Posted by: Tonypete

not much to add ...

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (3ZUWJ)

38 Thanks for the ONT, MisHum!

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:17 PM (z0fsG)

39 8 Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (tgvbd)

Nobody waving fans made from peacock feathers ???
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic

Waving peacock feathers, nope he needs virgins tossing rose petals.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 22, 2025 10:17 PM (0Htd1)

40 The Revised Standard Version has the angel say:
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased!”.
The ESV has it right too. Best is to read it in the original Koine Greek, but not everyone can.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (E0Kkk)

41 "Unfortunately, it sounds like this is what that bear has potentially found under the homeowner's house in the crawlspace.
------

We have had several instances of this in the neighborhood. Bears have clawed off less-than-robust crawlspace doors, and made themselves at home.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)

42 Waving peacock feathers, nope he needs virgins tossing rose petals.

Where will we find those? (Select your own "those".)

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (z0fsG)

43 Thanks for the ONT, MisHum!

And FZ! It's almost like the olden times...

Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (rdVOm)

44 What do we know about the first 100 airborne divisions?
Posted by: Don Black

You won't believe how long it took to come up with "GERONIMO~!"

"KICKAPOO!" just didn't have the right note.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)

45 What do we know about the first 100 airborne divisions?
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)

Fun fact: During WWII, the War Department had Walt Disney Company crank out designs for shoulder patches for numerous non-existent Divisions, just to mess with Axis intelligence gather.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (TR4+2)

46 Hunter Biden with Shawn Ryan for 5 1/2 hours. Truly fascinating.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (AkkXw)

47 Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/22/25)

That looks a tad steep!

Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (1zcQ9)

48 It's unfortunate. We want to see the bears in the woods, not in people's homes." Cort Klopping, with CDFW(/i]

Yes, ideally, ‘Cort’, this is what we strive for in our current civilization where we’re eons past living in caves.

Tell me again, exactly what is it you do here?

What kind of name is ‘Cort’ anyway?
Sounds like a made-up John Wayne character name like ‘Taw’ or ‘Quirt’.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (6ydKt)

49 We have had several instances of this in the neighborhood. Bears have clawed off less-than-robust crawlspace doors, and made themselves at home.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)

Well, that's a couple hundred watts of free heat under the floor...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (npFr7)

50 Shouldn’t his fans be waving the feathers?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (E0Kkk)

51 I have grown old. . . . . *snif*
Posted by: Tonypete

Do you wear the bottoms of your trousers rolled?

Posted by: J. Alfred Prufrock at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (rbvCR)

52 Good evening Horde. Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: TRex -feliz navi dino at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (cCn4/)

53 I have 300 silver ounce coins. It's so tempting to sell some. Have only 1 ounce gold coin.

Posted by: Silver Dollar City at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

54 Where will we find those? (Select your own "those".)
Posted by: LRob in OK

Incels in Pasadena on Jan 1st ???

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

55 And FZ! It's almost like the olden times...
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (rdVOm)

Yep. Olden Times. Back when men were men and women had their own spaces/sports.

Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)

56 Posted by: T. Carlson
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Can't be both or split down the middle. Go Christian or go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (imZqa)

57 “We support LGBTQ rights fully“

What does that even mean? I think if you incorporate leftist euphemisms and vague rorschach word salads, you’ve already conceded.

If fully grown adults want to bugger each other and get AIDS that is their choice. Anything else is just groomers and kiddie-fvckers perving on youth and corrupting their innocence and continuing the cycle of abuse.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (74/ii)

58 McKee said the two were wearing work boots, not hiking boots, and lacked the gear you might take on a night hike in winter, such as crampons, snowshoes, or functional lights.

You said crampons, I thought you said tampons, and I said I didn't need any more...

Posted by: Tampon Timmy at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (ynpvh)

59 Rare thing, and good.

@DeAngelisCorey 1h
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that parental exclusion policies are unconstitutional.

California can't force teachers to keep secrets from parents.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (mlg/3)

60 an old time radio show just the other day, Johnny Dollar
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When I was a kid, Johnny Dollar was my favorite radio show. I would lie in bed with the lights out, and the radio (inherited from my grandmother) turned low so that my parents couldn't hear it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (XeU6L)

61 gather = gathering

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (TR4+2)

62 "KICKAPOO!" just didn't have the right note.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)

MEeeeeee...

Posted by: Geronimo, baling out of airplane at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

63 Sold all my gold at twice what I paid for it.
I mean 2K's gotta' be the top. Right?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:23 PM (imZqa)

64 Frank Zappa?

During Zappa Month?

I shannot believe it I simply shannot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:23 PM (CA6zO)

65 Probably.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:24 PM (GmKGk)

66 Silver spot just went to $70.01 - expect chaos and a jump up in the spot price as the banks start buying to cover their shorts. All that buying will drive the spot even higher. Much of that buying is automatic and can't be stopped. Ruh Rho. Silver Tuesday has arrived.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:24 PM (Da7Vv)

67 >>>"KICKAPOO!" just didn't have the right note.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)

MEeeeeee...

Posted by: Geronimo, baling out of airplane

>The Arapaho never had a chance near a frontier settlement.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (nljXp)

68 The boys are harder.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

Which is quite awkward in a Speedo.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (zdQuL)

69 Silver dimes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (GmKGk)

70 I have two outdoor cats that have an apartment in my crawlspace with sleeping bags and heating pads. They wouldn't like it if a bear tried to get in on their grift. I've also sliced the main heating duct, so they get some of my house heat. It's quite cozy under there. Neither like to come in the house, though one will for an hour or so.

Posted by: Feline Pushover at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (oftw2)

71 Evening all. Watching Die Hard after some fun Christmas shopping and crazy traffic due to accident on PA turnpike….

Posted by: Mick at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (HFx9z)

72 EDS was started by H. Ross Perot.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (0CU3H)

73 Random thought:

What do we know about the first 100 airborne divisions?
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)

The 82nd was famously deployed in Western Europe.

But what do we *really* know about those other 99 missing divisions?

And how do we *really* know who died in those gas chambers? Maybe it was the 99 divisions? Maybe not? Who knows? But I think the patriotic thing is to at least ask.

And, how do we know those were actually German gas chambers that killed 99 divisions worth of brave American soldiers?

I'm here to welcome Thaddeus Magillicuddy, the world's foremost expert on phantom paratroopers, to answer some pressing questions about just why it is that every historical account places so many Jews in these notorious camps.

Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (BI5O2)

74 Howdy Mis Hum! Howdy Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (QMAsf)

75
I have grown old. . . . . *snif*
Posted by: Tonypete
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Sorry, you'll have to take a number and wait your turn.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (XeU6L)

76 The Koine in Luke says peace to people of delight, which can mean people who delight God or perhaps people who take delight in the birth of the Savior, but agreed, it is not peace to all men.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (E0Kkk)

77 72 EDS was started by H. Ross Perot.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (0CU3H)

Erectile Dysfunction Syndrome?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh)

78
The boys are harder.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at

My son was on a traveling soccer team.They were playing in Iceland with girls' teams playing adjacent. For some reason the girls' team needed to change shirts, which they did on the field. The boys' game stopped completely until the girls had changed.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (igoLh)

79 The boys are harder.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

Which is quite awkward in a Speedo.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (zdQuL)

But makes it easier to steer.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:28 PM (uQesX)

80 Silver spot just went to $70.01 - expect chaos and a jump up in the spot price as the banks start buying to cover their shorts. All that buying will drive the spot even higher. Much of that buying is automatic and can't be stopped. Ruh Rho. Silver Tuesday has arrived.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:24 PM (Da7Vv)

Don't worry, we've got this.

Posted by: The Hunt Brothers at December 22, 2025 10:28 PM (TR4+2)

81 The KJV is wrong. The Douay-Rheims is right.
Posted by: no one

Heh. This is known.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

82 And as a hyper faithful Christo-Muslim whatsit, I'm frankly offended by this obvious scheme. Rhode Island doesn't even exist, but these hummus eaters expect me to believe this fake state has a college in it?

I mean, really HAHAHAHAHA?!?!
Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (BI5O2)

yeah is smack talking somebody's faith here the smart move, not sure that's the smart move. guess you're trying to find out huh?

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:29 PM (jWNhz)

83 What a crappy week. Lily beagle gets pancreatitis and than loses the use of her back legs suddenly. She been at 2 separate vet offices 6 times in a week, with one overnight stay. Today our vet decides to take a chest X-ray and finds a small mass which may be resting on a nerve which might be causing the leg issue. CT scan next to see what the mass is and if it’s treatable. I have a really bad feeling about this.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 22, 2025 10:30 PM (2NHgQ)

84 Don't worry, we've got this.
Posted by: The Hunt Brothers

geez, how old do yo uhave to be to know this, are you using the hq teletype ?

smile face

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (jWNhz)

85 ...a contingent of angels appeared, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests” (NIV; δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκίας

.

Grammatically speaking, the subject of the first clause is δόξα (“Glory”

and the subject of the second clause is εἰρήνη (“peace”

. The contrasting locations are ἐν ὑψίστοις (“in the highest”

and ἐπὶ γῆς (“on earth”

, and the respective recipients θεῷ (“God”

and ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκίας (“those [lit., the men/people] on whom his favor rests”

.

Most modern English translations render the noun εὐδοκίας (literally, “of good pleasure”

as denoting an attribute of the recipients of peace rather than as a second subject on par with “peace.”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (imZqa)

86 Herding cats, or herding teen girls at an boys swim meet so they go where they are supposed to instead of drooling? Which is harder?

Not that the second scenario is one I have had a lot of experience recently with.... grr....
Posted by: SimoHayek

More logical behavior: housecats or teenage girls?

Not gonna go there.

I think the original "herding cats," like in the commercial, refers to managing engineers. Or maybe programmers.

Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)

87 Thank you, MisHum! What a day. My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint. The cut wasn’t long, but it was really deep. 3 stitches and a finger brace later, it was not the Christmas surprise we were thinking about. It’s in a brace because of the joint, she is not supposed to move it because of joint damage.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (OoFl2)

88 Sounds like I should have bought silver at $11.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:32 PM (6ydKt)

89 Bears are asshoe. I was onetime 4W drive in camping at 10k feet + and decided it would be easier to leave the portable generator at the end of the 100’ contractor cord.

One morning I go to look at the generator and see that it isn’t where I had placed it. I had an extended run fuel tank and hose connected too, everything was thrown around like discarded toys. The bear had chewed on the fuel hose, and nearly severed the extension cord. Turned out to be what I call a “teen” bear, not fully grown, though pretty good sized, not a cub or anything like that. Looked kind of ratty and disheveled with a little straw or grass in fur, wondered if it had been hibernating recently.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:32 PM (74/ii)

90 I was thinking that having some retard socking qdpsteve would maybe bring MisHum out of retirement to chain the guy to the radiator in his basement out of an abundance of caution

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:32 PM (jWNhz)

91 At $70.01 an average condition silver dime has $5.00 worth of silver in it. For those who didn't see it, I talked about the silver market in several posts on the Pixy thread.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (Da7Vv)

92 My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint.

So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)

93 Judge Beezlebubzberg has been busy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (GmKGk)

94 Do you wear the bottoms of your trousers rolled?
Posted by: J. Alfred Prufrock

And another thing, what is up with that love song of yours?

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

Really? This stream of consciousness stuff is just to much. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (cYBz/)

95 That mystery click is freaky.

Funny but freaky.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (6ydKt)

96 “We support LGBTQ rights fully“

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I don't. Back in the closet please, we don't need or want such perversion in our society. I am tolerant no longer. And it's not transphobia, it's righteous abhorrence of evil.

Not trying to start an argument, just not going to be silent anymore.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (igoLh)

97 Piper, today I found a numb spot on a finger and I was running a mental tally of the cuts, slices, scars and old burns that I have on my hands. I have not been kind to my hands which is why they get stiff when the weather changes.

The newest one I think is just a burn, the oldest one was due to an experiment with a paring knife when I was 4.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (rbvCR)

98 I see Boasberg has decided he can override SCOTUS. He's ordered the Trump Administration to either return the TdA/MS-13 gang members currently at CECOT either returned to the US or given hearings as to why they were deported 'with little or no notice'. He also certified them as a class action when he was specifically told he couldn't. He has been told that he lacked jurisdiction by SCOTUS.

His Eminence has decided otherwise.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (b9CCz)

99 It is immediately identifiable when a thread is an originawl MisHum.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (jWNhz)

100 EDS, that company that herds cats, is now DXC Technology's, after a merger with CSC. I was curious, so I looked it up. Part of Hewlett-Packard. Got this info from the internet so it's probably wrong. Anyway, Cat herding company is no more.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 10:36 PM (sAmhv)

101 Poor Lily beagle

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:36 PM (iK7NX)

102
So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?

Posted by: LRob in OK

====

You've been a responsible parent, and I'm assuming you're of age. Pour yourself a double.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 22, 2025 10:36 PM (8AONa)

103 83 What a crappy week. Lily beagle gets pancreatitis and than loses the use of her back legs suddenly. She been at 2 separate vet offices 6 times in a week, with one overnight stay. Today our vet decides to take a chest X-ray and finds a small mass which may be resting on a nerve which might be causing the leg issue. CT scan next to see what the mass is and if it’s treatable. I have a really bad feeling about this.
Posted

Oh no, poor Lily! I am so sorry.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (OoFl2)

104 For thoae of you who actually are 29, silver went to $h!t in the days of yore. Industrial Metal. If the world economy falls apart, silver could plummet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (GmKGk)

105 the hq needs to have a bodycam thread

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (jWNhz)

106 The Douay-Reims has its faults too, as does any translation. Best to consult the original Koine Greek, for the New Testament anyway.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (E0Kkk)

107 Today our vet decides to take a chest X-ray and finds a small mass which may be resting on a nerve which might be causing the leg issue. CT scan next to see what the mass is and if it’s treatable. I have a really bad feeling about this.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

Sorry to hear this, hope it turns out better than you are thinking.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (igoLh)

108 30 In my misspent yute I did an Outward Bound type thing, a week camping in northern NH in January. Don't go winter camping in NH unless you are really prepared. Not hard to die in the NH woods in winter.
Posted by: JackStraw
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My coldest overnight camp experience was 18 degrees, freezing rain/sleet, whiskey and a Coleman lantern in a canvass tent. Can't imagine doing an over night in NH unprepared.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (imZqa)

109 the hq needs to have a bodycam thread
Posted by: n

What ever could go wrong?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (cYBz/)

110 Massholes hiking in in New Hampshire in the winter....Darwin Award runners up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)

111 My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint.

So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)
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Hot iron.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (ZOv7s)

112 Pour yourself a double.

I have heard mature, intelligent men speak in tongues whilst under the influence of tequila. Should be registered as a hallucinogen!

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (z0fsG)

113 My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint. The cut wasn’t long, but it was really deep. 3 stitches and a finger brace later, it was not the Christmas surprise we were thinking about. It’s in a brace because of the joint, she is not supposed to move it because of joint damage.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (OoFl2)
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A prayer for complete and speedy healing.

It's horrible when your kids is hurt.

I usually preferred the fleshy parts when inserting knives into my hands.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (iK7NX)

114 92 My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint.

So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)

It might help to take the edge off.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (6ydKt)

115
yeah is smack talking somebody's faith here the smart move, not sure that's the smart move. guess you're trying to find out huh?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:29 PM (jWNhz)

Who is smack talking anyone's faith? Is it you? Because it seems like it's you... I'm not the one besmirching the proud faith traditions of Christoislam around here.

I have some questions about that.

Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (BI5O2)

116 I don't know anything about Silver Shorts but I do have a Silver Sneakers card.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (pkeXY)

117 the hq needs to have a bodycam thread
Posted by: n

What ever could go wrong?
Posted by: Tonyp

endless merriment, tax payer funded, drive traffic though the roof

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (jWNhz)

118 Most modern English translations render the noun εὐδοκίας (literally, “of good pleasure” as denoting an attribute of the recipients of peace rather than as a second subject on par with “peace.”
Posted by: Braenyard

Impressive, Braenyard, that is quite a talent you have been hiding.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (igoLh)

119 Those two Massachusetts hikers turned out to be 18 year old kids. One of them, when found, was very drunk. So, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the hike began, and ended with stupid decisions found in a bottle.

Moral of the story: When drinking with friends and one's face lights up just before saying, "Hey, you know what we should do?" What follows should probably be disregarded in its entirety.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)

120 77 72 EDS was started by H. Ross Perot.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (0CU3H)

Erectile Dysfunction Syndrome?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh)

Well, he wasn't a big man.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (0CU3H)

121 106 The Douay-Reims has its faults too, as does any translation. Best to consult the original Koine Greek, for the New Testament anyway.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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VDH said his brother learned Hebrew and Aramaic in order to read it in the original.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (imZqa)

122 Prayers all 'round-- for the Horde, their children and their pets!

Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (rdVOm)

123 Who is smack talking anyone's faith? Is it you? Because it seems like it's you... I'm not the one besmirching the proud faith traditions of Christoislam around here.

I have some questions about that.
Posted by: T. Carls

have fun with that , not many ways you starting that goes the way you want

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:40 PM (jWNhz)

124 It might help to take the edge off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (6ydKt)

You know what takes the edge off? Rice pudding.

Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)

125 The Hunt brothers did all of their work with the paper market only. This is different. There is an actual physical shortage of Silver driving the prices upward. Changing the paper commodity rules can't stop the price increases currently occurring.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:41 PM (Da7Vv)

126 About that bear:
"and so far, he's not motivated to leave."

Well, then, how about you SHOOT HIM. Shoot him, then throw a rope around him and drag his carcass out. The homeowner can make a rug out of him. And eat a bunch of stew for the next 2 years. Probably give some to the local Indian tribe to make up for living on their stolen land or some such BS.

Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 10:41 PM (D3HHy)

127 Impressive, Braenyard, that is quite a talent you have been hiding.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Thank you but the talent is in the internet.
Hope all is well for you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (imZqa)

128 Piper, you know I was kidding about the tequila, yes?

I hate it when children are injured. We saw all kinds of emergency room trips with 5 kids. Broken bones, cuts. No fun. I hope she does OK.

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (z0fsG)

129 Bench grinders will take the edge off if you get the angle wrong.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (GmKGk)

130 Well, then, how about you SHOOT HIM. Shoot him, then throw a rope around him and drag his carcass out. The homeowner can make a rug out of him. And eat a bunch of stew for the next 2 years. Probably give some to the local Indian tribe to make up for living on their stolen land or some such BS.
Posted by: GWB

why it's a great story, maybe the most exciting to ever happen to the homeowner.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (jWNhz)

131 The last time I went winter camping we listened to the SNL album on cassette on someone's boombox. That and a bunch of Dead tapes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (WGeqj)

132 Prayers for complete and rapid healing for your daughter Piper.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (igoLh)

133 The Hunt brothers didn't break the law they took advantage of it. The law doesn't like that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (imZqa)

134 88

I bought at $17. Lots of junk silver as well...
However, as has been said, you can't eat silver or gold.
It's pretty to look at though 😳..

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (dIJjD)

135 California can't force teachers to keep secrets from parents

What’s interesting is how quickly The Narrative from the left can change. A new set of directives is issued, and the old ways are discarded, like they Never Happened.

All of the grooming faggotry was right on the heels of the “Stranger Danger” and “Mandatory Reporting” legislation. Pornography of any type is illegal for minors, but (somehow) is peachy keen for even toddlers if distributed in public schools?

I grew up in a fairly working class mixed ethnicity suburban neighborhood, mostly Democrat probably. There were disagreements about politics for sure, but one thing in common is if the school teachers tried that shit back then the parents would have roasted them over a spit on a bonfire.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (0cASp)

136 "We support LGBTQ rights fully. This has nothing to do with identity. Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless."

Yes. I support "gender affirming care".

So if a male child (is convinced to) believes he is a female trapped in a male's body, he needs (psychiatric) gender affirming care, to persuade/show him ...

"No, you are a male in a male's body. Your "gender dysphoria" is due either to confusion as you go THROUGH puberty, and/or someone has been mind flucking you (flucking groomers) to make you believe you are actually a woman."

Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (vbXSk)

137 in the spirit of "not enough of this...moar of that"

From one of my favorite cartoons the kids liked when they were young:

https://tinyurl.com/2rxjub66

Posted by: barbarausa at December 22, 2025 10:44 PM (enw9G)

138 92 My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint.

So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)

Y’all would have been so proud of me. She said she thought she needed a bandaid, I looked at it and saw just how deep it was. I didn’t panic, I just calmly told her we need to get it looked at even though I really wanted the throw up.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:44 PM (OoFl2)

139 I don't know anything about Silver Shorts but I do have a Silver Sneakers card.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (pkeXY)

Made in Nashville?

https://youtu.be/I7onqDAwemQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

140 it is canada's gov funded suicide and organ harvesting business that is the most disturbing thing in north America now.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)

141 However, as has been said, you can't eat silver or gold.
——-

Compared to what? Pieces of paper with dead presidents?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (0cASp)

142 Thank you but the talent is in the internet.

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Oh, too bad, I trust your knowledge over the Internet! 😊

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (igoLh)

143 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (zZu0s)

144 All of the grooming faggotry was right on the heels of the “Stranger Danger” and “Mandatory Reporting” legislation. Pornography of any type is illegal for minors, but (somehow) is peachy keen for even toddlers if distributed in public schools?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (0cASp)
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The pervs took over the Democrat party. Look at how many public school teachers commit sex crimes. That's now their main constituency.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (ZOv7s)

145 You can eat tins of corned beef.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (GmKGk)

146 98 I see Boasberg has decided he can override SCOTUS. He's ordered the Trump Administration to either return the TdA/MS-13 gang members currently at CECOT either returned to the US or given hearings as to why they were deported 'with little or no notice'. He also certified them as a class action when he was specifically told he couldn't. He has been told that he lacked jurisdiction by SCOTUS.

His Eminence has decided otherwise.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (b9CCz)

Maybe he should be arrested for impersonating a judge...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)

147 and in the spirit of the season, giving thanks for this blog and all the cobs and commenters.

Another year survived, thanks in part to this place

Posted by: barbarausa at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (enw9G)

148 You can eat tins of corned beef.
Posted by: Boss

you have to get it out of the tin

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (uFL4l)

149 97 Piper, today I found a numb spot on a finger and I was running a mental tally of the cuts, slices, scars and old burns that I have on my hands. I have not been kind to my hands which is why they get stiff when the weather changes.

The newest one I think is just a burn, the oldest one was due to an experiment with a paring knife when I was 4.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (rbvCR)

That is my toes. I can’t tell you how many broken toes I have had thanks to my obsession with my ponies.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (OoFl2)

150 Braenyard -

Good job! You actually quote the Koine. Pixy Missa’s Minx puts a lot of smileys in your Greek quotes however.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (E0Kkk)

151 There is a key for that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (GmKGk)

152 Seems like a couple of weeks ago, some House members were calling for Boasberg to testify in Congress, with impeachment the likely outcome. I lost track of the situation.

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (z0fsG)

153 I see Boasberg has decided he can override SCOTUS. He's ordered the Trump Administration to either return the TdA/MS-13 gang members currently at CECOT either returned to the US or given hearings as to why they were deported 'with little or no notice'. He also certified them as a class action when he was specifically told he couldn't. He has been told that he lacked jurisdiction by SCOTUS.

His Eminence has decided otherwise.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert

+++++

Sounds insurrectiony

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

154 132 Prayers for complete and rapid healing for your daughter Piper.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December

Thank you.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:48 PM (OoFl2)

155 You can eat tins of corned beef.
Posted by: Boss

you have to get it out of the tin

Unless you’re a Billy goat!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:48 PM (E0Kkk)

156 Thank you, MisHum! What a day. My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint. The cut wasn’t long, but it was really deep. 3 stitches and a finger brace later, it was not the Christmas surprise we were thinking about. It’s in a brace because of the joint, she is not supposed to move it because of joint damage.
Posted by: Piper
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I did that sort of thing once. 2 dissolving stiches on the muscle and 7 to close it up, fortunately not across a joint, but right down where bone was visible. That was... ummmm... *uses fingers to count* ... 48 years ago, and the scar, though faint, is still visible.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 10:49 PM (TevVe)

157 Y’all would have been so proud of me. She said she thought she needed a bandaid, I looked at it and saw just how deep it was. I didn’t panic, I just calmly told her we need to get it looked at even though I really wanted the throw up.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:44 PM (OoFl2)
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One of the grandkids fell in some strange way, and cut his scalp. Everyone was going crazy, so Grandpa was summoned and I quickly identified the wound, improvised a bandage, put direct pressure and ice on it, and stopped the bleeding.

The panic subsided and my daughter said: "So now what? Does he need stiches?"

I said: "I have no idea. The military taught me to apply a dressing. What comes next is someone else's problem."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:49 PM (ZOv7s)

158 I almost miss black diamonds.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (zZu0s)

159
Best wishes for Lily.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (tgvbd)

160 I got a pretty deep hack on my forefinger while slicing watermelon. It healed fine. Scar still there.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (GmKGk)

161 "I bought at $17. Lots of junk silver as well...
However, as has been said, you can't eat silver or gold."

But if you bought at $17, you can buy three times as much food with the silver as you could have if you just held your dollars (including interest on those dollars).

I bought some around $17, not nearly enough. My miners have done well lately, but will probably have to sell those as well, maybe when silver almost hits $100.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (vbXSk)

162 I almost miss black diamonds.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (zZu0s)

We're still around.

Posted by: The Other Side of the Slope at December 22, 2025 10:51 PM (uQesX)

163 140 it is canada's gov funded suicide and organ harvesting business that is the most disturbing thing in north America now.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)

So competing with China? They'll lose.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:51 PM (ynpvh)

164 Evening all,

If you're traveling for Christmas, I hope you safely reach the destination.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 22, 2025 10:51 PM (2F0/Y)

165 What good is a diamond that only works three days a week?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (GmKGk)

166 140 it is canada's gov funded suicide and organ harvesting business that is the most disturbing thing in north America now.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)

So competing with China? They'll lose.

canada is more evil so

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (uFL4l)

167 However, as has been said, you can't eat silver or gold.
——-

Compared to what? Pieces of paper with dead presidents?

At $5 for a silver dime, you can barter those for food pretty easily.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (Da7Vv)

168 About 45 years ago, I ran from second to home in a softball game and decided to look toward left field for the closeness of the play at home. He was dogging it. I tripped over nothing at all and slammed my left hand on the edge of home plate. Middle finger, right on the joint, clear into the joint. Lots of dirt. The local AF emer room wouldn't stitch it and it got rinsed out daily. No infection. The remaining scar is significant.

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (z0fsG)

169
I said: "I have no idea. The military taught me to apply a dressing. What comes next is someone else's problem."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December

Ha! Those head wounds can bleed, too. Even the not so bad ones!

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:53 PM (OoFl2)

170 At $5 for a silver dime, you can barter those for food pretty easily.
Posted by: An Obse

not for food or ammo

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:53 PM (uFL4l)

171 166 140 it is canada's gov funded suicide and organ harvesting business that is the most disturbing thing in north America now.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)

So competing with China? They'll lose.

canada is more evil so

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (uFL4l)

Only if they lock up those opposed to a liberal gov't, force suicide, and take their organs...then multiply this 1000x.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

172 >>>My miners have done well lately, but will probably have to sell those as well, maybe when silver almost hits $100.
Posted by: illiniwek
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My miners are in the middle of mudslides, fires, cave-ins and international disputes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:54 PM (imZqa)

173 Tourniquet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:54 PM (GmKGk)

174 169
I said: "I have no idea. The military taught me to apply a dressing. What comes next is someone else's problem."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December

Ha! Those head wounds can bleed, too. Even the not so bad ones!

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:53 PM (OoFl2) ]

Tourniquets don't work well on neck, head, chest, or abdominal wounds...or maybe they do...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)

175 I was so proud of America when I heard JD Vance' speech. “President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self-defeating purity tests,” he said, but like you suggest he did seem to suggest that America hating Tucker should be cancelled because he says things that gets sand in neocon vagina.

Pity about Tucker. Maybe Mark Levin can fill that hole in Trump's media backers, and then we can get back to no longer having Trump's executive order specifically supporting Qatar.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (rbvCR)

176 Only if they lock up those opposed to a liberal gov't, force suicide, and take their organs...then multiply this 1000x.
Posted by: jim

it is not the act so much as how it came to be

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (uFL4l)

177 Middle finger, right on the joint, clear into the joint. Lots of dirt. The local AF emer room wouldn't stitch it and it got rinsed out daily. No infection. The remaining scar is significant.

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That hurts just to think about.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (igoLh)

178 Watching Nerdrotic's 10-year anniversary review of The Force Awakens. I had forgotten what an utter piece of shit that movie was.

And Kathleen Kennedy still has a job.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)

179 7 Oh Holy Night. One of my favorites.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (2WIwB)

Take a look it this guys version. Powerful

https://youtu.be/EWPr3-njNSY

Posted by: javems at December 22, 2025 10:56 PM (8I4hW)

180 I knew The Force Awakens sucked ten years ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (GmKGk)

181 yeah if we did not need an xo saying do not bomb our allies, things would be easier

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (uFL4l)

182 That hurts just to think about.

A few days later, my squadron commander heard about it. I showed him the affected finger in the middle of a staff meeting. Everyone, including him, laughed!

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (z0fsG)

183 The Force Awakens was fine when I saw it, but it was a few hours later that you start going: what did I just watch?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (zZu0s)

184 You can eat tins of corned beef.
Posted by: Boss

you have to get it out of the tin
Posted by: n

And it'll be empty if anyone genocided cows since it was tinned.

Posted by: mikeski the tourist at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (nhCoE)

185 I cut down to the bone on my left forefinger trimming 5/8" sheetrock with a utility knife. 3"long all the way to end of finger and sliced off the very end of the middle finger. Should have had close to ten stitches, but I super glued the skin, wrapped the fingers together with tape, put on a glove and went back to work. Amazing what one will do for money.

Posted by: Absolutely No Scar at December 22, 2025 10:58 PM (oftw2)

186 Well that is certainly a new piece of data about the Battle of Midway.

Cmdr. Dick Best off Enterprise in a 1999 interview mentions the dive bombers were dealing with a 35mph wind at 20,000ft that was affecting their flight paths. And only because McClusky decided to circle back did they find the Japanese fleet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

187 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 22, 2025 10:58 PM (qnGrS)

188 Watching Nerdrotic's 10-year anniversary review of The Force Awakens. I had forgotten what an utter piece of shit that movie was.

And Kathleen Kennedy still has a job.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)
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I set a record for checking the time on my watch during that film. My kids were somewhat in awe of how much I visibly hated it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:59 PM (ZOv7s)

189 114 92 My poor kiddo sliced the heck out of her finger, right on the joint.

So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)

It might help to take the edge off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (6ydKt)

That would have been helpful before knife met finger...

Posted by: Dull can be dangerous too at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (TbWk/)

190 The Japanese Carriers only needed about one dive bomb to sink.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (GmKGk)

191 So is it true chapelle closed his new special with "I stand with Israel"

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (uFL4l)

192 That is my toes. I can’t tell you how many broken toes I have had thanks to my obsession with my ponies.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (OoFl2)

I always thought the joke was that an obsession with the ponies led to the bookies breaking your fingers, then your knees?

-- I haven't ridden a horse since I was 16 and I suspect both the horses and I are better off because of it.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (rbvCR)

193 ...America hating Tucker should be cancelled because he says things that gets sand in neocon vagina.
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With all due respect that completely minimizes and simplifies what Tucker has said.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (WGeqj)

194 180 I knew The Force Awakens sucked ten years ago.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (GmKGk)

I knew it was going to suck about 15 minutes in when Rey kept on telling Fin to stop holding her hand.

I’ve been preached to in movies, one way or another, ever since

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (6ydKt)

195 The Japanese Carriers only needed about one dive bomb to sink.
Posted by: Boss

it is surprising they could even get airborne

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (uFL4l)

196 "My miners are in the middle of mudslides, fires, cave-ins and international disputes." Posted by: Braenyard

I don't really analyze mine closely, but read Bill Fleckenstein so own AEM, PAAS, WDOFF, AGI. They all are pretty solid. Sold Newmont too early, but with big gains. There are always risks ... I'm only 15% in equities cuz I'm old and (too?) cautious, but comfortable. heh.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (vbXSk)

197 When I saw that retarded bastard wearing Han Solo clothes I was done.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (GmKGk)

198 And eat a bunch of stew for the next 2 years.
Posted by: GWB
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Yahbut...
Every case of Trichinosis occurring in the US in the last 50 years or so has been a result of eating bear meat.
The pigs are innocent.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (TevVe)

199 190 The Japanese Carriers only needed about one dive bomb to sink.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (GmKGk)

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Not Shinano. It had an armor-plated flight deck.

So one torpedo from the Archerfish sent it down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:02 PM (JkO4W)

200 Braenyard - Hebrew and Aramaic for the OT, Koine Greek for the NT, but you knew this.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:02 PM (E0Kkk)

201 Armor plating wasn't on most of them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (GmKGk)

202 Dick Best and four other SBDs put Akagi under the waves.

He also says just before Midway he took a nine ship of SBDs to the Molokai range to practice bombing. He says of his bomb run, two of the practice bombs were within 15ft and the other two withing 25ft of the bullseye.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (2GVsD)

203 “….given hearings as to why they were deported”

Because they are illegal aliens. That’s why, fuckface.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (z1t++)

204 javems, that was an excellent version! That man has a serious voice.

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (z0fsG)

205 With all due respect that completely minimizes and simplifies what Tucker has said.
Posted by: San

if it is about another country who cares?

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:04 PM (uFL4l)

206
190 The Japanese Carriers only needed about one dive bomb to sink.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (GmKGk)

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Both Japanese and American WW2 carriers had wooden flight decks.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 11:04 PM (azNOR)

207 Shinano never had a proper testing of all the seals and hatches that were supposed to make the ship watertight. So when she got holed by Archerfish, oh boy they found the leaks in a hurry.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:05 PM (2GVsD)

208 The two Japanese carriers with armored flight decks came out in 1944.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:06 PM (GmKGk)

209 195 The Japanese Carriers only needed about one dive bomb to sink.
Posted by: Boss

it is surprising they could even get airborne

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (uFL4l)

Indeed. Carriers are quite heavy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)

210 It gets me that much of the New Testament is in the Aorist tense which English doesn’t have naturally. Translation always loses something.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:07 PM (E0Kkk)

211 Unryu got sunk by a US submarine as it was trying to run Ohkas and pilots to the Philippines.

The other finished Unryu class carrier survived the war but was not a factor in the war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

212 Off to bed. Hopefully tomorrow is less eventful! Night!

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 11:08 PM (OoFl2)

213 They did have armored hangar decks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:08 PM (GmKGk)

214 198 And eat a bunch of stew for the next 2 years.
Posted by: GWB
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Yahbut...
Every case of Trichinosis occurring in the US in the last 50 years or so has been a result of eating bear meat.
The pigs are innocent.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (TevVe)

Not even the feral ones?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

215 *Looks at time*

Okay, who in the Horde just won the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

216 Goodnight Horde! Continuing travel tomorrow.

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (z0fsG)

217 Night Piper.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

218 I forgot to buy a ticket.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (GmKGk)

219 The two Japanese carriers with armored flight decks came out in 1944.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:06 PM (GmKGk)
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Imperial Japan was a mass of contradictions. On the one hand, the Arisaka rifle was the ultimate incarnation of the Mauser action, with post-war testing showing it to be crazy robust.

And yet...Nambu pistols. WTF.

The "Zero" was pretty damn good, but also fragile and an evolutionary dead end. Also: it's wartime, why are you still hazing your pilot trainees?

Have you considered an actual medical corps, or is your entire military based on the idea that no one gets sick or wounded?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)

220 215 *Looks at time*

Okay, who in the Horde just won the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

I knew I was forgetting something...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

221 " Braenyard - Hebrew and Aramaic for the OT, Koine Greek for the NT, but you knew this." Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

There are some that think the NT was originally in Aramaic, kinda considered more the "language of the commoners", while Greek was more legal/official. So it is kinda nice to think JC gave the Sermon on the Mount in Aramaic.

There are interlinears of the NT in Aramaic, but the Greek became more dominant in the translations.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (vbXSk)

222 Scalp wounds are notorious for producing lots and lots of blood. That’s not to say “don’t worry about it” but don’t freak out, either.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (z1t++)

223 Apparently we need more hot irons....

Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (NlEaG)

224 The Japanese sucked at damage control. Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga and Akagi went down because bombs pierced the flight deck and set off a chain of secondary explosions in the hangar deck.

Then there was the Taiho...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:11 PM (JkO4W)

225 Apparently we need more hot irons....
Posted by: blas

you have a bunch of wrinkled clothes?

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:11 PM (uFL4l)

226 Night Piper and thanks again for the photos.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 22, 2025 11:12 PM (VCgbV)

227 Taiho suffered the fate of Lexington, turned into a giant fuel-air bomb.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

228 The Japanese sucked at damage control. Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga and Akagi went down because bombs pierced the flight deck and set off a chain of secondary explosions in the hangar deck.

Then there was the Taiho...
Posted by: Cicer

it is a bitch to have running flaming fuel going through holes in your decks into the engineering spaces

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:12 PM (uFL4l)

229 Every now and then I catch a glimpse of how connected the things Trump does really are. For instance the heavy praise of Qatar, and of the Saudis as well - at first glance, it seems bizarre. But now both countries are pushing OPEC to produce as much oil as possible, dropping oil prices. Why?

Maybe, just maybe because Trump asked them to, because the oil surplus allows Trump to take Venezuela’s production offline and crush Maduro’s government without the oil price spike that should have happened, and thus without any domestic political repercussions for Trump. And he gets to take down Cuba as well, a nice two for. Amazing how it all comes together.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (pLSjm)

230 Piper...did they put her on an antibiotic due to the joint injury?

Hope she's better soon!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (WONhk)

231 Trump is also selling to Saudi Arabia the F-35 as a carrot for them to sign the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (2GVsD)

232 Alot of origami below decks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (GmKGk)

233 Scalp wounds are notorious for producing lots and lots of blood. That’s not to say “don’t worry about it” but don’t freak out, either.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (z1t++)
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Yep. But trying to explain to a room full of women how shaving cuts can bleed but not be arterial is an uphill climb.

We've had each grandkid get a scalp cut, and both were scary due to blood, but did not need stitches.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (ZOv7s)

234 With all due respect that completely minimizes and simplifies what Tucker has said.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (WGeqj)

Pretty much everything Tucker has said shades into what Trump and Vance have said. You are pissed because he contradicts what you think is essential to justify what you believe. You are ranting on, not because you disagree with Tucker but because you are afraid someone will listen to him and stop believing what you believe.

Let me say something: no one listens to Tucker because they care what he says. No one listens to Joe Rogan because they care what he says, either. People listen to them to hear what the people they interview have to say.
You are as pissed about Tucker "platforming" points of view that are contrary to yours. fine. Go listen to people who agree with you, your blood pressure will be lower.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:14 PM (rbvCR)

235 "King James Bible
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

I'm told those KJV foreign words are Aramaic, but it's been 45 years since I learned that, or maybe I remember incorrectly .... ha.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:14 PM (vbXSk)

236 I guess I better snooze now💤💤
Lots to do early tomorrow.

Have a wonderful evening all, and thanks MH.

"The tree may lean and the cookies may burn, but if we are together, it is perfect.”

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 11:14 PM (dIJjD)

237 222 Scalp wounds are notorious for producing lots and lots of blood. That’s not to say “don’t worry about it” but don’t freak out, either.
Posted by: Common Tater

Once was common in pro wrestling to slice forehead/scalp to create a bloody head/face. Generally heals quickly.

Posted by: Classy Freddie Blassie at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (oftw2)

238 Maybe, just maybe because Trump asked them to, because the oil surplus allows Trump to take Venezuela’s production offline and crush Maduro’s government without the oil price spike that should have happened, and thus without any domestic political repercussions for Trump. And he gets to take down Cuba as well, a nice two for. Amazing how it all comes together.
Posted by: Tom Se

it is not good for American producers to have Saudis or anybody else producing more, besides, you should assume the venezuelans have the same doomsday strategy of blowing the wells the Saudis have.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (uFL4l)

239 It's Greek to me.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (GmKGk)

240 I worked for Walden books in the late 80s, early 90s (which is where I learned how NOT to run a bookstore). I was frequently asked if we sold Bibles. On a day when I was feeling super ornery, I would look the customer right in the eye, smile sweetly, and ask "Which one? What translation?". And the person would get that deer in the headlights look on their face. 99 times out of 100, they wanted the King James.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (DK5Sh)

241 Maybe, just maybe because Trump asked them to, because the oil surplus allows Trump to take Venezuela’s production offline and crush Maduro’s government without the oil price spike that should have happened, and thus without any domestic political repercussions for Trump. And he gets to take down Cuba as well, a nice two for. Amazing how it all comes together.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (pLSjm)
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It also squeezes Russia, who he wants to come to terms. They got most of what they wanted in terms of Russian-language populations, and the Crimea, and he feels that's enough. I think he also wants to sort out the stupid enclaves once and for all.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (ZOv7s)

242 Pretty much everything Tucker has said shades into what Trump and Vance have said. You are pissed because he contradicts what you think is essential to justify what you believe. You are ranting on, not because you disagree with Tucker but because you are afraid someone will listen to him and stop believing what you believe.

Let me say something: no one listens to Tucker because they care what he says. No one listens to Joe Rogan because they care what he says, either. People listen to them to hear what the people they interview have to say.
You are as pissed about Tucker "platforming" points of view that are contrary to yours. fine. Go listen to people who agree with you, your blood pressure will be lower.
Posted by: Kin

shocked face emoji

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (uFL4l)

243 Or you ask them if they want the Bible with or without the Book of Tobit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)

244 I always thought it was criminal, some of those World War Two battleships had decks made of Teak wood. They were thought important enough to preserve, and they were, so steps should have been taken to conserve the decks. Teak is practically extinct now, or near enough.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (rFLpo)

245 "King James Bible
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

I also learned those words do not mean "why hast thou forsaken me", but more like "for this purpose was I spared". God did not forsake His son, but he did sacrifice him for us.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (vbXSk)

246 204 javems, that was an excellent version! That man has a serious voice.

Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (z0fsG)

Yes. I just discovered him a little while ago. I'll have to search for some more of his works.

Posted by: javems at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (8I4hW)

247 Not even the feral ones?
Posted by: jim
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Nope. I think.because everyone is very aware of pigs/trichinosis, so feral pig is cooked to a fare thee well. The fact that bears carry the parasite is not that high in public consciousness, so they get undercooked.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (TevVe)

248 192 That is my toes. I can’t tell you how many broken toes I have had thanks to my obsession with my ponies.
Posted by: Piper
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At about six years of age I'm standing barefoot next to a horse and she steps on my toe. She doesn't know that she's standing on my toe. Mom is there but doesn't know what to do. The men across the yard are yelling instructions but she's unsuccessful.

Finally, they come over and get her to pick up her hoof. It was a most unpleasant experience.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (imZqa)

249 247 Not even the feral ones?
Posted by: jim
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Nope. I think.because everyone is very aware of pigs/trichinosis, so feral pig is cooked to a fare thee well. The fact that bears carry the parasite is not that high in public consciousness, so they get undercooked.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (TevVe)

Yeah, any critter that eats flesh, and I guess folks forget that pigs will eat flesh...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)

250 When I was aboard USS Missouri in 2010 they were talking of sourcing new deck planking from ... *drum roll* China.

Not sure if they did.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (2GVsD)

251 Or you ask them if they want the Bible with or without the Book of Tobit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
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Maccabees. Kind of important, particularly this time of year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)

252 I believe pigs would even eat small stones.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (GmKGk)

253 248 192 That is my toes. I can’t tell you how many broken toes I have had thanks to my obsession with my ponies.
Posted by: Piper
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At about six years of age I'm standing barefoot next to a horse and she steps on my toe. She doesn't know that she's standing on my toe. Mom is there but doesn't know what to do. The men across the yard are yelling instructions but she's unsuccessful.

Finally, they come over and get her to pick up her hoof. It was a most unpleasant experience.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (imZqa)

BIL closed a car window on my fingers before I could get them out of the way...I was banging on the window with the OTHER hand saying, "Put it down! Put it down!"...seconds are a long time in those situations...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:20 PM (ynpvh)

254 251 Or you ask them if they want the Bible with or without the Book of Tobit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
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Maccabees. Kind of important, particularly this time of year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)

First or Second? Oh, you want both?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)

255 When I was aboard USS Missouri in 2010 they were talking of sourcing new deck planking from ... *drum roll* China.

Not sure if they did.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms are now claiming we allied with Japan in WW II. Because of course.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ZOv7s)

256 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (imZqa)

HMMM I'll bet you won the Bible category on jeopardy.

Posted by: Derak at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (JUYGW)

257 I saw a video on Tobit last night. They were talking about a binding and healing angel I never heard of.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (GmKGk)

258 illiniwek -

But we don’t have the NT in Aramaic but in Koine Greek. Certainly you can make a case that some of the Greek looks like the author was thinking in Aramaic and then writing it down in Koine. Also I think there were a lot of amanuenses who helped write down the text who may have had better mastery of Koine than the person dictating the text. The extent of their influence may explain why certain authors had better Greek in some of their writings than elsewhere. Of course Paul was well tutored and wrote good Greek.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (E0Kkk)

259 My last bookstore location was two doors down from a coin shop. I don't think the guy kept real good records. One of my customers bought an ungodly number of gold coins -- not the tenth ounce coins, but the ounce coins. He stuffed them in his bank box so his daughter could retrieve them tax free after his death. His aim was to die with no bank savings.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (DK5Sh)

260 Posted by: mindful webworker - it's THAT time of year, eh? at December 22, 2025 10:04 PM (WB0Mb)

I just cried. Those are GREAT commercials. Thanks!

Posted by: Derak at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (JUYGW)

261 Or you ask them if they want the Bible with or without the Book of Tobit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
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Maccabees. Kind of important, particularly this time of year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)

First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

And that officer, is when the fight broke out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (2GVsD)

262 First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
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Is there a volume discount?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ZOv7s)

263 257 I saw a video on Tobit last night. They were talking about a binding and healing angel I never heard of.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (GmKGk)

I have one Bible with the apocryphal books...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)

264 >>>Let me say something: no one listens to Tucker because they care what he says. No one listens to Joe Rogan because they care what he says, either. People listen to them to hear what the people they interview have to say.
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So many things to choose from:

Tucker does not bring the best nor the brightest; they are obtuse, elliptical, fringe thinkers that package their thoughts in intellectual appearing expression.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (imZqa)

265 262 First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
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Is there a volume discount?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ZOv7s)

Indeed! Two for the price of one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

266 257 I saw a video on Tobit last night. They were talking about a binding and healing angel I never heard of.

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There were a lot of third tier angels in the enlisted ranks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (JkO4W)

267 265 262 First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
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Is there a volume discount?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ZOv7s)

Indeed! Two for the price of one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

Buy one Bible with 1Maccabees, get 2nd Maccabees free!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (ynpvh)

268 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️🎄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (93VjR)

269 I saw a video on Tobit last night. They were talking about a binding and healing angel I never heard of.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (GmKGk)
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Tobit is one of the more amusing books of the Bible. Chick keeps getting her husband whacked because of demons, but fish parts for the win!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)

270 So. Winter camping.

My future ex husband and I took a backpacking trip up to Rampart Ridge in late spring. By the time we reached the ridge it was blizzard conditions and fog. Visibility was zip. We found a tree and pitched our tent for shelter.

Cooked some food, drank some Irish and listened to a Red Sox Mariners double header on the radio.

Saved us.

Woke the next morning early and could not see our footprints. Took put the topo map and the compass and headed downhill. Got kinda off the trail, but figured it out.

It was nice to get back to the truck and the heater and safely. Fun trip though. Will never forget.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (syJGz)

271 US allied with Japan?

Guess the last Chinese who remember the Flying Tigers or Flying Dragons have died off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)

272 So many things to choose from:

Tucker does not bring the best nor the brightest; they are obtuse, elliptical, fringe thinkers that package their thoughts in intellectual appearing expression.

Posted by: Braen

Yeah he never gets the deep thinkers such as mark levin.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (uFL4l)

273 It was an arch angel. TMNT Raphel I think.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (GmKGk)

274 Indeed! Two for the price of one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
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It's why Jews practice circumcision. They demand 10 percent off *everything.*

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:26 PM (ZOv7s)

275 Fish Gaul cured old guys 4 years of blindness.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (GmKGk)

276 They're not all A-listers like Gamaliels and Gabriels.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (JkO4W)

277 Guess the last Chinese who remember the Flying Tigers or Flying Dragons have died off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms did nothing to fight Japan. KMT shouldered that load. So they pretend that the US was a non-factor. Did you see their big celebration in September, where they pretended the CCP defeated Japan? Total joke.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)

278 Huh, USS New Jersey just emerged from a $10 million facelift.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:28 PM (2GVsD)

279 Huh, USS New Jersey just emerged from a $10 million facelift.
Posted by: Ann

I would seem more appropriate to have a BBlift ,

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (uFL4l)

280 BIL closed a car window on my fingers before I could get them out of the way...I was banging on the window with the OTHER hand saying, "Put it down! Put it down!"...seconds are a long time in those situations...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:20 PM (ynpvh)

[to Inga from behind the bookcase] Put... the candle... back!

Posted by: Fr. Frederick Frankenstein at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (wVcYX)

281 Huh, USS New Jersey just emerged from a $10 million facelift.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:28 PM (2GVsD)
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I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille. Also a salvo.

Posted by: USS New Jersey at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (ZOv7s)

282 I tend to ignore Chinese propaganda.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (2GVsD)

283 277 Guess the last Chinese who remember the Flying Tigers or Flying Dragons have died off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms did nothing to fight Japan. KMT shouldered that load. So they pretend that the US was a non-factor. Did you see their big celebration in September, where they pretended the CCP defeated Japan? Total joke.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)

Mao made sure all veterans under him during the Great March were massacred in various places, including Korea. Leave no witnesses.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

284 Raphael and Uriel are only named in the Deuterocanonical texts.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (E0Kkk)

285 282 I tend to ignore Chinese propaganda.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (2GVsD)

Good to know you ignore most MSM.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

286 Fish Gaul cured old guys 4 years of blindness.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (GmKGk)

There's a "blind lesbian in a seafood store" joke to be in there, someplace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7)

287 There's a "blind lesbian in a seafood store" joke to be in there, someplace.

You haddock go there...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:30 PM (2GVsD)

288 286 Fish Gaul cured old guys 4 years of blindness.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (GmKGk)

There's a "blind lesbian in a seafood store" joke to be in there, someplace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7)

"The Illiad" has Lesbians in it; King Agamemnon even offered some of his best to Achiles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (ynpvh)

289 I tend to ignore Chinese propaganda.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (2GVsD)
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It's useful to know which lies they are telling.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (ZOv7s)

290 The Greeks have an Island named Lesbos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (GmKGk)

291 Agamemnon was a pimp. He could never have outfought Ajax (the Greater)

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:32 PM (JkO4W)

292 Raphael and Uriel are only named in the Deuterocanonical texts.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (E0Kkk)
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Milton made up a bunch of angels. Also went full Arianism.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:33 PM (ZOv7s)

293 291 Agamemnon was a pimp. He could never have outfought Ajax (the Greater)

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:32 PM (JkO4W)

Ajax was a great cleaner, let me tell ya.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:33 PM (ynpvh)

294 Okay, I'm done. Night all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)

295 The Greeks have an Island named Lesbos.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (GmKGk)
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Natives of which are termed "Lesbosians" for obvious reasons.

In the early days of the internet, "Isle of Lesbos" probably saw heavy traffic, not the least by an ewok with an interest in Busty Lesbian Porn.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:34 PM (ZOv7s)

296 I miss winter camping. My boys and I would set up camp in Rocky Mountain National Park, build a big fire and watch the snow fly. The elk were all around us. The tent was small, but we had so many sleeping bags and blankets that we were toasty. Getting up to pee in the middle of the night was an adventure.

next morning, the elk were gathered around the minivan, licking the mag-chloride, which is, I guess, a kind of salt. I think one of them flicked a cigarette butt at us. Punks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 11:34 PM (0aYVJ)

297 Maccabees. Kind of important, particularly this time of year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

What about third and fourth Maccabees?

Posted by: Pippin and/or Josephus at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (nhCoE)

298 One thing that impressed me about Judas Maccabeus - and it seems somewhat relevant concerning the infighting we’ve been talking about lately - is that as soon as he got his rebellion going, the first thing that he did, even before attacking the Seleucids, was to raid and wipe out almost all of the Hellenized Jews.

He didn’t put up with any dissension on his own side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (pLSjm)

299 What about third and fourth Maccabees?
Posted by: Pippin and/or Josephus at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (nhCoE)
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What are you, Russian?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (ZOv7s)

300 278 Huh, USS New Jersey just emerged from a $10 million facelift.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Now, rip out that old propulsion system and put in a nuclear one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:37 PM (imZqa)

301 That’s awesome , Pug.

Love those memories.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 11:37 PM (InAgz)

302 I think New Jersey got credit for sinking an island once.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (GmKGk)

303 He didn’t put up with any dissension on his own side.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (pLSjm)
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Yeah, but did he kill all the firstborn males? That's a real power move.

Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)

304 298 One thing that impressed me about Judas Maccabeus - and it seems somewhat relevant concerning the infighting we’ve been talking about lately - is that as soon as he got his rebellion going, the first thing that he did, even before attacking the Seleucids, was to raid and wipe out almost all of the Hellenized Jews.

He didn’t put up with any dissension on his own side.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Shadow of Moses coming back from the mount.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (imZqa)

305 302 I think New Jersey got credit for sinking an island once.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (GmKGk)

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Guam was always a sitting duck. I'm surprised the Japanese didn't send it to the bottom.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:39 PM (JkO4W)

306 The Greeks have an Island named Lesbos.

And you know who lived on that island in classical times, right? Sappho the poet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:40 PM (E0Kkk)

307 299 What about third and fourth Maccabees?
Posted by: Pippin and/or Josephus at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (nhCoE)
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What are you, Russian?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Makes one wonder what the Bible would be if Constantine hadn't been in a rush.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:40 PM (imZqa)

308 Last night, Piper posted a bunch of pictures of Christmas trees - thought I would post a picture of what the TiFW girls refer to as "The Ornament Rack".

It's not a traditional Christmas tree, but honestly, all I want to see on a tree is the ornaments, and with most trees in homes, about 3/4 of the tree is not viewable because they are usually set in a corner.

So years ago, I saw this in a catalog, and I Had.To.Have.It.

I still love it! Didn't put it up this year because of impending surgery, but we do try to put it up most years. We even ordered a taller one last year, but it didn't get to our house in time to put up, so we will have to wait until next year to see what it looks like 🎄🎄🎄

https://tinyurl.com/TheOrnamentRack

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 22, 2025 11:41 PM (9WXu1)

309 Guam was always a sitting duck. I'm surprised the Japanese didn't send it to the bottom.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:39 PM (JkO4W)

Guam had native divers equipped with thousands of yards of Flex Tape.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7)

310 Jim Beam is shutting down production for a year.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (GmKGk)

311 So many things to choose from:
Tucker does not bring the best nor the brightest; they are obtuse, elliptical, fringe thinkers that package their thoughts in intellectual appearing expression.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (imZqa)

So you don't listen to the podcast and yet you know why he is bad.

You have unique skills, sir. I am amazed.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (rbvCR)

312 Kindltot knows a lot about me that just isn't so.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)

313 Posted by: javems at December 22, 2025 10:56 PM (8I4hW)

Simply outstanding.

Posted by: Derak at December 22, 2025 11:44 PM (JUYGW)

314 293 291 Agamemnon was a pimp. He could never have outfought Ajax (the Greater)

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:32 PM (JkO4W)

Ajax was a great cleaner, let me tell ya.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:33 PM (ynpvh)

And he was a very, very good boy. Best dog i could have asked for.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 11:45 PM (zZu0s)

315 https://tinyurl.com/TheOrnamentRack
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 22, 2025 11:41 PM (9WXu1)

I'm not going to make any jokes about ornamental racks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:45 PM (npFr7)

316 312 Kindltot knows a lot about me that just isn't so.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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zzz zzzz zzzzz channeling Franpycho's brain zzz zzzz zzzzz

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:45 PM (imZqa)

317 Maccabees is informative for why so many of the Jews of Judea expected a military Messiah. They had succeeded in throwing off one empire, the Seleucids, and thought they could do it again with the Romans. This was not God’s plan, but helps explain so many expectations that the Jews of Jerusalem had.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:46 PM (E0Kkk)

318
So you don't listen to the podcast and yet you know why he is bad.

You have unique skills, sir. I am amazed.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Of course you are.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:47 PM (imZqa)

319
I'm not going to make any jokes about ornamental racks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Channeling the Horde's brain.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:48 PM (imZqa)

320 Kindltot knows a lot about me that just isn't so.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)

I know nothing about you, only what you say.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:48 PM (rbvCR)

321 Good night grey box friends

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 11:49 PM (igoLh)

322 310 Jim Beam is shutting down production for a year.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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This sounds like a real world tragedy. Extrapolate, please.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:49 PM (imZqa)

323 Night AK.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 11:49 PM (zZu0s)

324 321 Good night grey box friends

Peace

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Huh. Duuuude.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (JkO4W)

325 Amazing amount of digital ink we spill over Tucker. Committing the electric sin of Onan to stay in our Bible theme.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (zZu0s)

326 I'm knee deep in putting my desk back together, all the monitors are on new arms, the laptops have their arms, all of the things have their spot now instead of haphazardly placed, but more importantly all of the various connecting cables are now appropriately sized, where I had a 10ft long hdmi, a more appropriate 3ft hdmi has been subbed in, and so on.

Just waiting for the k/m switch, video multiviewer and ram mount pieces tomorrow and everything will be pulled together.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (XV/Pl)

327 The good brands of Bourbon are still producing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (GmKGk)

328 327 The good brands of Bourbon are still producing.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (GmKGk)

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You couldn't stop Ten High even if they ran out of corn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:51 PM (JkO4W)

329 Buffalo Trace is still unobtainium here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:51 PM (GmKGk)

330
Tim can fix it!!

What Tim fails to see is that he is Wreck It Walz

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:52 PM (xG4kz)

331 Teresa in Fort Worth-
I am having trouble opening your link:

https://tinyurl.com/TheOrnamentRack

Is the problem on my end?

Also, continuing to pray for you.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:53 PM (E0Kkk)

332 You know how we were all taught that oil was "fossil fuel", somehow came from all the dead dinosaurs and whatnot? And now the idea is gaining traction that it is constantly generated by processes in the Earth's core? It seems that the dino theory was at least promoted if not invented by...John Rockefeller who controlled most of the US oil in the days when it was first becoming useful. The idea that there was a limited amount of it was good for keeping the prices up. The scam has always been.

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 22, 2025 11:55 PM (3/XaG)

333 What Tim fails to see is that he is Wreck It Walz
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:52 PM (xG4kz)

Walz of the Foulers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:55 PM (npFr7)

334
https://tinyurl.com/TheOrnamentRack
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn

That's one of them balsams, isn't it?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:57 PM (xG4kz)

335 But we don’t have the NT in Aramaic but in Koine Greek." NemoMe

I have a Lamsa Bible ... somewhere. from wiki

"Some places in Lamsa's translation differ from the Greek texts used as the basis of other English-language Bibles.

Matthew 27:46
An example is found in Matthew Matthew 27:46, where Lamsa has "My God, my God, for this I was spared!" where the Greek text has "My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?"

And about the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
that is to say,
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

This is rendered in Lamsa's translation:

And about the ninth hour,
Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said,
Eli, Eli lemana shabakthan!
My God, my God, for this I was spared!"

Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:58 PM (vbXSk)

336
The idea that there was a limited amount of it was good for keeping the prices up. The scam has always been.
Posted by: Azjaeger

Hey! Shaddup, you!

-- DeBeers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:58 PM (xG4kz)

337 The idea that there was a limited amount of it was good for keeping the prices up. The scam has always been.
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 22, 2025 11:55 PM (3/XaG)

If you want to drill a well, or a hundred wells, to test abiotic oil theory, nobody is stopping you, if you can raise the money to do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (npFr7)

338 Teresa in Fort Worth -

The link worked this time! Very pretty!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (E0Kkk)

339 Kentucky is pretty good for finding all sorts of whiskey/bourbon. I was in rhe liquor store on Saturday and found this new to me brand that had... like 50s sci fi and superhero labels. They were very cool looking. Like 5 different varieties. I almost wanted to buy them for the bottles alone. Wish I could post a picture I took of thr bottles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (zZu0s)

340 My last bookstore location was two doors down from a coin shop. I don't think the guy kept real good records. One of my customers bought an ungodly number of gold coins -- not the tenth ounce coins, but the ounce coins. He stuffed them in his bank box so his daughter could retrieve them tax free after his death. His aim was to die with no bank savings.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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Maybe in his state, but I doubt it. My attorney that set up.the family trust advised me to get a good safe (or a big.piece of property to bury stuff) and give up.my safety deposit box. If you have a box in AZ, the estate must go through probate, with a probate court order required to open the box, with a neutral observer of the inventory,.said inventory submitted to.the court. Ain't gonna dodge no revenooers there.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (TevVe)

341 It seems that the dino theory was at least promoted if not invented by...John Rockefeller who controlled most of the US oil in the days when it was first becoming useful. The idea that there was a limited amount of it was good for keeping the prices up. The scam has always been.
Posted by: Azjaeger

Dino Juice was a marketing ploy to make petro more acceptable to luddites married to burning Whale Squeezenes.
More sophisticated than coal or lamp gas.

.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:01 AM (/lPRQ)

342 'Whale squeezins' I like that. Ill steal if it I ever have a chance to use it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 12:03 AM (zZu0s)

343 "The Ornament Rack"

TiFW--- I *love* it!

Hoping you're well and feeling fine. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

344 I'm knee deep in putting my desk back together, all the monitors are on new arms, the laptops have their arms, all of the things have their spot now instead of haphazardly placed, but more importantly all of the various connecting cables are now appropriately sized, where I had a 10ft long hdmi, a more appropriate 3ft hdmi has been subbed in, and so on.

Just waiting for the k/m switch, video multiviewer and ram mount pieces tomorrow and everything will be pulled together.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Ask Ace for a consult.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:04 AM (TevVe)

345 The Greeks have an Island named Lesbos.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (GmKGk)

You don't say!

Posted by: Sappho The Poetess at December 23, 2025 12:06 AM (TR4+2)

346 Tonight's Powerball numbers are:

03, 18, 36, 41, 54, and the PB is 07.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 12:07 AM (2GVsD)

347 Oil has been found in marine formations as old as late Proterozoic, long before animals of any kind walked upon the land.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)

348 I've lost a trail before hiking, in NH too...

Of course it was a shorter trail and without much elevation gain and it was the summer so I didn't have to worry about snow or cold.

But it is easy to do. In my case there was a river in the area that I knew I could focus on if all else failed.

When I realized I was lost I just kept heading to the river, then followed it to pick up the trail again.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:09 AM (sKqQm)

349 I knew a guy from Lesbos.

Kidded him about it many, many times.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:10 AM (sKqQm)

350

Ajax aka The White Tornado

https://youtu.be/OcDhBxFBxwI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)

351 Powerball Christmas Eve $1.7 Billion.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:11 AM (GmKGk)

352 Thomas Gold was wrong about the Steady State hypothesis, wrong about Moon dust, was arguably right about the Space Shuttle, and probably right about at least some oil being abiogenic in origin. Whether you can get to it, and bring it up to the surface in an economic fashion is another question.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 12:12 AM (E0Kkk)

353 I knew a guy from Lesbos.

Kidded him about it many, many times.
Posted by: 18-1

Not even half a limerick.
First line was a great start though

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:14 AM (/lPRQ)

354 If you want to drill a well, or a hundred wells, to test abiotic oil theory, nobody is stopping you, if you can raise the money to do it.

I wonder if some percentage of our oil is abiotic with most biotic in origin - I know there has been unexpected seepage back into some wells when the expected reserves in the area were exhausted and of course we've found hydrocarbons outside of the earth in the solar system that are likely abiotic but...to your point no one has made a real strike based on the abiotic theory yet

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:14 AM (sKqQm)

355 osted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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Maybe ... there.
Posted by: buddhaha
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Banks are not your friend. They are not on your side.
What goes on is not their business nor the govts.
In ancient times, before computers and cross referenced book keeping along with sloppy govt work.
Families did not record deeds or such transactions.
They would be generationally passed on. Only concerned parties, buyer and seller, involved.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:14 AM (imZqa)

356 Need to buy some PB tickets!

$1.7B, after it's chewed up by taxation.. just might be enough to cruise through the rest of my life. Maybe.

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)

357 346 Tonight's Powerball numbers are:

03, 18, 36, 41, 54, and the PB is 07.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Hoping you won something. Maybe a tenth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:15 AM (imZqa)

358 I vaguely recall helping Mom take groceries out of the back seat of her car. I dropped a 6-pack of 7-UP bottles on her big toe, she was wearing sandals I guess. I remember it bled quite a lot.

The wind up was, I never had to help carry groceries again (sorry Mom!!!)

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:16 AM (fS43b)

359 Beam will still be making bourbon but it'll just be at their second location about five miles down the road

Posted by: NCKate at December 23, 2025 12:19 AM (uQzkA)

360 Thomas Gold was wrong about the Steady State hypothesis, wrong about Moon dust, was arguably right about the Space Shuttle, and probably right about at least some oil being abiogenic in origin. Whether you can get to it, and bring it up to the surface in an economic fashion is another question.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 12:12 AM (E0Kkk)

The big problem with abiogenic oil is where to put it. I don't doubt that at some great depths in the earth's mantle the physical and chemical conditions are ripe for elemental carbon to combine with the hydrogen in water to form hydrocarbons. Problem is, at those great depths, all rocks are somewhat plastic, like modeling clay, and the crystal grains deform or regrow to fill all available pore space. No pore space = no place to put the oil. So the carbon+water>hydrocarbon reaction wheezes to a halt, because chemical reactions stop when there is no more room for the products to escape.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:19 AM (npFr7)

361 Now that I think about it, a class action lawsuit (for every male over a certain age) against YKK or whoever made those &@$@ing brass-toothed metallic zippers we all had on our jeans. A very critical component of the anatomy was prone to getting caught in them things.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:20 AM (fS43b)

362 You can't really have an all encompassing theory of oil without taking into account the lizard people, who love it so. They put it there long ago, when their race first came to our world, to terraform it to a warmer climate better suited to their existence.

Posted by: a word to the wise at December 23, 2025 12:21 AM (iu6Qe)

363 Problem is, at those great depths, all rocks are somewhat plastic, like modeling clay, and the crystal grains deform or regrow to fill all available pore space

I was wondering the other day...how common are caves beneath regular soil? If I went and dug down 1000 yards under my house what are the odds I'd hit a natural cave? 1/1000? Less?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:23 AM (sKqQm)

364 A very critical component of the anatomy was prone to getting caught in them things.
Posted by: Common Tater
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2 words for you: Under. wear.

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

365 Oil is created by friction between the bottom of the flat earth and the back of the Great Turtle that the world is balanced on.

Posted by: The Guy Who Always Talks About Turtles at December 23, 2025 12:26 AM (TR4+2)

366 Now that I think about it, a class action lawsuit (for every male over a certain age) against YKK or whoever made those &@$@ing brass-toothed metallic zippers we all had on our jeans. A very critical component of the anatomy was prone to getting caught in them things.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:20 AM (fS43b)

I wonder if you could 3D print a pair of pants from some sort of soft flexible polymer like rayon? Legs, pockets, zipper, belt loops, everything. All one piece, no seams at all, no thread. When they are worn out, throw them in a special recycling bin at the store, and they are melted down, and formed into new filament for the printers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:26 AM (npFr7)

367 Coal formations have fossilized plants contained therein though, no? Ferns and such?

I like some of the numerous apparently well documented tales of strange items found deep underground in coal mines. Brass kettles and other artifacts, Not sure what to think of that.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:27 AM (fS43b)

368 348 I've lost a trail before hiking, in NH too...
...

Posted by: 18-1
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Ex and I, hiking the piney woods, following a designated trail, little tin triangles. We are about an hour in and, and there are markers N, S, E, & W.
Some clown fixed it. OK, there's the sun. You know after a while all pine trees look alike.

Another hour, it's hot, the oranges are gone, more, there's got to be...wait I know this place, I feel it, it's like deja vu, Against the sun, the deliberate course and her objections, we go this way. Yes this is where we had out keggers. I know where I am.

Fifteen minutes later we're on a farm road, ten minutes later in the bed of a pickup being taxied to my ride. whew.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:27 AM (imZqa)

369 I wonder if you could 3D print a pair of pants from some sort of soft flexible polymer like rayon? Legs, pockets, zipper, belt loops, everything. All one piece, no seams at all, no thread.

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You could include built-in Crocs at the bottom to complete the humiliation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 12:28 AM (nWPIJ)

370 Frank and beans!

Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2025 12:28 AM (Epuwl)

371 I feel like I know that tree.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 12:29 AM (dK+Kv)

372 Coal formations have fossilized plants contained therein though, no? Ferns and such?

I like some of the numerous apparently well documented tales of strange items found deep underground in coal mines. Brass kettles and other artifacts, Not sure what to think of that.
Posted by: Common Tater

The crystal skills, not quite human, are puzzling.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:30 AM (/lPRQ)

373 I like some of the numerous apparently well documented tales of strange items found deep underground in coal mines. Brass kettles and other artifacts, Not sure what to think of that.

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Send enough tornados through enough junkyards and eventually you'll wind up with a Boeing 747.

Posted by: Charles Darwin at December 23, 2025 12:30 AM (nWPIJ)

374 The crystal SKULLS...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:31 AM (/lPRQ)

375 >>>No pore space = no place to put the oil. So the carbon+water>hydrocarbon reaction wheezes to a halt, because chemical reactions stop when there is no more room for the products to escape.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Except it oozes up to levels where our pipes can get bits of it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:32 AM (imZqa)

376 I knew a guy from Lesbos.
Kidded him about it many, many times.
Posted by: 18-

Not even half a limerick.
First line was a great start though
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I once knew a guy from Lesbos
Who worked for a guy named Jeff Bezos
They loved Amazon(s)
Had no.use for us 'rons
Sorta like Ozzies and Abos
*silence*
Bring on the next contestant.....

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:33 AM (TevVe)

377
Art Bell used to have a guy on who was big on such anomalous artifacts found in impossibly old formations. Something about anatomically modern human footprints found in impossibly old places, and other modern machine like stuff, a threaded screw or something like that.

I forget his name.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:34 AM (w6EFb)

378 -----------

Send enough tornados through enough junkyards and eventually you'll wind up with a Boeing 747.
Posted by: Charles Darwin
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What about those brand new P-38s packed in ice?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:34 AM (imZqa)

379 I was wondering the other day...how common are caves beneath regular soil? If I went and dug down 1000 yards under my house what are the odds I'd hit a natural cave? 1/1000? Less?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:23 AM (sKqQm)

Aside from lava caves, which are near-surface, mostly, caves are found in limestone formations which have been above the water table at some time, and caverns formed by rainwater with a little dissolved CO2 (making it slightly acid) dissolving away limestone as it percolates through cracks. Those cavernous formations can later be deeply buried. There places in Alberta where Cretaceous shales and sands sit unconformably on Mississipian limestone which is riddled with caves and holes. Drill into that, and your well "takes a drink" as all the mud in the well rushes into voids in the limestone. On the other hand, if you hit a local high in the Mississipian, you might get a bonanza oil well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:35 AM (npFr7)

380 325 Amazing amount of digital ink we spill over Tucker. Committing the electric sin of Onan to stay in our Bible theme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
.........................................
Well, not too long ago, he seemed reasonable. Then, he wasn't. The cynic in me thinks his source of funding changed, so he changed. The same for a lot of these 'influencers'. Follow the money.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 12:35 AM (sAmhv)

381 And going back to the biblical theme, what about
Matthew 17:21?
Inconsistencies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:35 AM (imZqa)

382 Gold’s theory about deep layers of dust on the lunar surface didn’t have many adherents. Him, and …. Well, him, I think. It was a consideration of course, but the Surveyor lander safely put any such fears to rest well before Apollo had to risk it.

Some of the sites had considerably more dust than others, enough blown around by the descent engine making visibility effectively zero, and the landing difficult. I think a couple Apollo commanders basically agreed compared with making night carrier landings on a heaving deck, the lunar module was a piece of cake. I think NASA was kind of spring loaded for selection of the Navy pilots for the program for a reason

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:38 AM (MsRtR)

383
Heh: OOPAs, Out of place artifacts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

384 Except it oozes up to levels where our pipes can get bits of it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:32 AM (imZqa)

Possibly, over eons, reservoirs could be refilled that way. Porosity is the fraction of the rock that is open space. Permeability is the connectivity between the open spaces. Source shales can have pretty high porosity, but the permeability is near-zero. That is where massive fracking can turn non-viable reservoir rocks into pay.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:40 AM (npFr7)

385 .........................................
Well, not too long ago, he seemed reasonable. Then, he wasn't. The cynic in me thinks his source of funding changed, so he changed. The same for a lot of these 'influencers'. Follow the money.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up
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Yeah, he was a shining star, I was very enthusiastic and then it was gone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:40 AM (imZqa)

386 I once knew a guy from Lesbos
Who dove into a p^ssy headmost
She tossed him a line
But he would not climb
Now he's a notch on her bedpost

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 12:40 AM (TR4+2)

387 I like some of the numerous apparently well documented tales of strange items found deep underground in coal mines. Brass kettles and other artifacts, Not sure what to think of that.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:27 AM (fS43b)
_______________________

I was just reading about that Oklahoma Iron pot the other day for no particular reason. They found it embedded in a large lump of coal in the early 1900's. Recent testing on the cup...AND how it was found within the coal suggested the age was in excess of 300 Million years. Which promptly caused all the archeologists to suggest the description of the find was false, and the testing on the pot was unreliable.

I tend to think that archeologists are some of the most close minded in the science field. If it goes against their theories...then it must be a mistake by the other guy.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 12:43 AM (dIske)

388
If we get to Mars, I'd love to start drilling and see just what the cores turn up. Might be some surprises.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

389 Eh, the crystal skulls have been “debunked”, they are very modern creations, probably made in Germany as novelty items in the 19th century.

Most of the “anomalous artifacts” have been determined to be hoaxes or misconceptions. The “coso artifact” is very obviously a Model T spark plug, encrusted with some sort of accretion. I haven’t read of anything particularly compelling.

The coal seam stuff seems genuinely weird, and made the local newspapers, and usually had sworn statements from the foreman, things like that. “I, John T Breckinridge hereby attest that the aforementioned was found at a level of 1270 feet below ground in an unbroken seam and witnessed by 3 other blah blah blah”

A couple instances of people finding odd objects in lump coal purchased for stoves. Newspapers were full of stories of giant skeletons found in caves as well. The Injuns had quite a few tales about them. I’m not a “believer” but it is weird.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:48 AM (MsRtR)

390 I wonder if you could 3D print a pair of pants from some sort of soft flexible polymer like rayon? Legs, pockets, zipper, belt loops, everything. All one piece, no seams at all, no thread. When they are worn out, throw them in a special recycling bin at the store, and they are melted down, and formed into new filament for the printers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'm convinced that the EEOC has ruined mens pants. To many damned women designers, with no personal experience to inform those designs.
The bottom of the zippers on waaay to many mens pants end above the top of the plumbing. Female clothing zippers just have to be long enough that the pant top opens sufficiently to get over the hips, so female designers don't consider other uses. I have a couple of pairs where I have to unbutton as well as pulling the zipper in order to lower the entire pant. Otherwise its like trying to siphon with a hose draped over the windowsill.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:50 AM (TevVe)

391 I'm convinced that the EEOC has ruined mens pants. To many damned women designers, with no personal experience to inform those designs...
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Heh. Maybe they're getting back at the men what designed high heels? (torture devices!)

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:56 AM (rdVOm)

392
Apollo managed to drill 292 cm (9.7') into the lunar surface. That's the deepest hole yet drilled I think. Chicom rovers drilled, but I don't think they managed to go that deep.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

393 I once knew a guy from Lesbos
Who dove into a p^ssy headmost
She tossed him a line
But he would not climb
Now he's a notch on her bedpost
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Much better, but, in my defense, I are a Injuneer, not an English major.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:57 AM (TevVe)

394 Guess the last Chinese who remember the Flying Tigers or Flying Dragons have died off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms did nothing to fight Japan. KMT shouldered that load. So they pretend that the US was a non-factor. Did you see their big celebration in September, where they pretended the CCP defeated Japan? Total joke.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)

Yeah the communists were pretty much jerkoffs. I used to collect a lot of stuff from the CBI region from that period. 14th AF tiger patches, blood chits, CBI patches, etc. AVG stuff is like hen's teeth and priced like it too. Nobody really talks about that region much, but damn that was a rough area. The communists sat on their ass. Worthless pieces of shit that they are.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 12:58 AM (snZF9)

395 Pimp>>>Glenn Greenwald>>>Tucker Carlson

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 12:58 AM (nljXp)

396 Zippers? What about pockets that you can barely put your hand in and that are sewed as part of the pant?
Back pockets too high and not deep enough for your bill fold.

No, buddhaha, it wasn't women what did us in, this time, it was MBA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:03 AM (imZqa)

397 Much better, but, in my defense, I are a Injuneer, not an English major.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:57 AM (TevVe)

Me, too. But I wasn't really good at it. I only took it up because I enjoy eating regularly and wearing shoes that don't have holes in the soles.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 01:04 AM (TR4+2)

398 Wanted to mention about pants the other day.
Looking for a pair at Wally's, there are good sales out there, they had good, well made, inexpensive pants but the pockets were obscenely small.

Bought a pair of Wrangler work pants not the color I wanted, but on sale, with real pockets. Pockets that a man can easily put his hand in and deep enough to put things in. Back pockets big and deep enough to hold the fattest bill fold. joy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:07 AM (imZqa)

399 Flying over the “hump” the Himalaya was insane. They even had to fly in high octane aviation gas, which is also crazy. Took 7 gallons to transport 1 gallon, something like that. No place to land. Nice!

They promised the Chinese that B-29s were on the way. They built runways and airfields for them. Completely by hand, they would conscript whole towns to pick up rocks, not a single piece of earth moving equipment to be had.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 01:09 AM (Snw0w)

400 Flying over the “hump” the Himalaya was insane. They even had to fly in high octane aviation gas, which is also crazy. Took 7 gallons to transport 1 gallon, something like that. No place to land. Nice!

They promised the Chinese that B-29s were on the way. They built runways and airfields for them. Completely by hand, they would conscript whole towns to pick up rocks, not a single piece of earth moving equipment to be had.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 01:09 AM (Snw0w)

I have the dress uniform of 14th AF flying tiger turned hump pilot. Its nice, has the fancier bullion patches. Yeah, the hump,otherwise known as the aluminum trail. Many crashes because the planes couldn't carry the pilot's huge asteroid size balls.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 01:13 AM (snZF9)

401 A very critical component of the anatomy was prone to getting caught in them things.
Posted by: Common Tater

2 words for you: Under. wear.
Posted by: JQ

Semper Ubi Sub Ubi!

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 01:13 AM (nhCoE)

402 "I still love it! Didn't put it up this year because of impending surgery, but we do try to put it up most years"

Hey you. Im in Dallas if you need help.

Msg me.

Fenrisulven6@gmail.com

Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 01:22 AM (5fCiA)

403 I once knew a guy from Lesbos
Who dove into a p^ssy headmost
She tossed him a line
But he would not climb
Now he's a notch on her bedpost
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

There once was a man from Lesbos
whose claim to fame, most grandiose:
His eleven-inch tongue!
The girls called him "well-hung,"
since he left them almost comatose.

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 01:23 AM (nhCoE)

404 Me, too. But I wasn't really good at it. I only took it up because I enjoy eating regularly and wearing shoes that don't have holes in the soles.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
----
I was decent enough. I have (had? They're all expired) 4 patents with my name on them. Should be 6, but one was DoD program (classified) and the other was "stolen" by manager. Funny thing is, my verbal SATs were 40 points above my math.
In a land of milk and honey, I would have been a musician, but, like you, I'm addicted to food.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 01:31 AM (TevVe)

405 I noticed Tibetts was allowed to hand pick his crews for the B-29, so he chose the guys he had flown with the most, a navigator he trusted, the best guy on the Norden, and the best crew chief mechanic, etc. I can see why, because one bum out of the whole crew can get you in trouble real quick.

I always figured that lead-acid battery technology was tested to the limit on the Diesel boats. Exide had their theories and testing, but out in the Pacific, getting replacements had to be a problem.

How low can you deplete a battery? For how long? How fast can you charge them safely? When the life of the boat depends on the battery, and the battery tenders, people are dropping depth charges, all of the published specs are going to be looked at very critically.

At some point, they simply had to surface, and crank up those diesels and charge. Big problem. Dad said they could connect the battery bank in different ways (parallel/series) to get more speed, or get more endurance.

I always thought a Diesel boat would be great to have. A full load of fuel gives it a 10k mile range or something insane like that. Electrically, it could power a small town. If anybody gives you shit…

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 01:31 AM (v9Y2Y)

406 Sweet dreams, Horde, I just can't keep my eyes open any longer tonight.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)

407 Sweet dreams, Horde, I just can't keep my eyes open any longer tonight.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)

Yep. Same for me. Time to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:48 AM (npFr7)

408 407 Sweet dreams, Horde, I just can't keep my eyes open any longer tonight.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)

Yep. Same for me. Time to call it a night. Later, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:48 AM (npFr7)

I think we all know BIG DINO calls the shots on AOP's bedtime.

Posted by: I've removed my fillings at December 23, 2025 01:51 AM (/jlFo)

409 Patents are worth shit if you make a NDA with the devil. Maybe a Benny Hill pat on the head.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:52 AM (nljXp)

410 To a hard left turn.
There's been another black on white highschool murder in Texas. Black guy accused white guy of taking his vape pen.
Stabbed him in the neck with scissors.

They said it wasn't racialist, yeah, he would have stabbed anyone he thought took his vape pen.
Oh, yeah, he had a rap sheet and there are questions why he was permitted there in the first place.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:53 AM (imZqa)

411 Gotta quit lurking and head for horizontality.

I am much amused tonight by the variety of topics, threads interwoven randomly of course, praise Pixyism.

One can learn about the stars, the wars, biology, history, and just about anything else, by hanging around the Horde. Some of it is even valid!😶

We have a couple of Guest Doggies staying with us for the week, while Daughter & her hub The Scientist are visiting his family in New York for Christmas. So, just Son for Christmas dinner, if he gets off work in the afternoon. Three of us and five dogs, presuming Son brings his. Should be a pandemonious celebration.

Click the nic for my Christmas Commercials Collection. A few awful, some surprisingly touching.

Here's another one I just ran across.
https://youtu.be/RUSfOss6ymk

Sweet dreams, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's THAT time of year, eh? at December 23, 2025 02:04 AM (WB0Mb)

412 Goodnight, mindeful, JQ, and all you late lurkers.
Sleep tight. He's coming.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:09 AM (imZqa)

413 and there are questions why he was permitted there in the first place.
——-

Federal $$$ for every ass in a classroom seat. Nobody gets suspended or expelled, because reasons, and the $$& for every ass in the seat.

It’s just little more than a huge extortion racket now.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 02:14 AM (PQwzA)

414 Hour to go

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 02:49 AM (Ia/+0)

415 https://youtu.be/dSQ40d8uoOI

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 03:15 AM (KgVf3)

416 The AI ram thing is kind of fascinating.

I guess they better hope the 'AI' is not a bubble.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 03:19 AM (zZu0s)

417 415 https://youtu.be/dSQ40d8uoOI
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
........................................
LoL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 03:35 AM (sAmhv)

418 Thanks for the ONT, MisHum.

And now it's time for the Tech News.

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

419 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)

420 I must disagree with Mr. Bailey, this has everything to do with identity, namely that the medical establishment has seen fit to indulge the fancies of the delusional, and pretend that gender is a feeling, and that identity is whatever you claim it to be. It used to be that when a man claimed to be Emperor of Boston, or a duck-billed platypus, medical men and laymen alike could agree that he was in fact no such thing. We might disagree as to the best course of treatment for the poor fellow, but we all agreed on that incontrovertible fact. Neither was the acknowledgement of that fact taken to constitute oppression of the afflicted, or some sort of a denial of their humanity.

I argue that the refusal to acknowledge the facts of your brother's actual identity was at the heart of the matter.

Posted by: DaveL at December 23, 2025 10:26 AM (TSPhM)

Monday Cafe

Ruined abbey (no further details given)

Time to make the biscuits.

Video of the actual inner workings of the blog.

Surprise entrant into a Russian beauty contest.

"Let's roll down the beach and **** them all!" (Old joke, usually about an old bull and a young bull.)

ICYMI: Waiting for your slower friend to arrive for dinner.

Shadowpouncing.

Couch potatoes.

Christmas pics.

They're just kids..🐶🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/XdT0OZ1ESX
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025

Baby cow thinks it's a dog too..🐄🐾🐶😅

📹grasspuppiesfarm pic.twitter.com/0LcyktfwV1
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025

First meet..🐶🐾🐕😅❤️ pic.twitter.com/iefnEzJ7Yp
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025

This better not be AI.

He was filming resting sharks, and then this happened..🦈🦈😅 pic.twitter.com/C3wS7BICOQ
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:43 PM

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1 hola

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (van9r)

2 Ruined abbey (no further details given)

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I told her to keep her mouth shut, if she knew what was good for her.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (e+Yrg)

3 Aby ruined..... or Aby Normal?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (mP0Kj)

4 Ruined abbey normal

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (pkeXY)

5
A Muppets Family Christmas 1987 TV Special

https://is.gd/W2Fiyl

I cued it up to Swedish Chef's entrance.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:46 PM (CWez5)

6 Abby Shapiro is ruined?

Posted by: Count de Monet, misunderstanding at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (wVcYX)

7 In a weird way, the above image is reminiscent of the missions in San Antonio.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (4786I)

8 Video of the actual inner workings of the blog.
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Wait...So it's NOT powered by hamsters?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (ESVrU)

9 Different Abby ...
***iykyk***

Definitely not safe ...
https://shorturl.at/RbHDd

Posted by: browndog laughing like Muttly at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (3sXRv)

10
I'm so out of it. I saw Monday Cafe and thought, no, it's Wednesday, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (3ek7K)

11 The Beatles ruined Abbey Road. .

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (u73oe)

12 Cafe time already?

Golly gee!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)

13 Experiment completed. Tearing the plastic wrap from left to right give a clean cut all the way through and no wadding up.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

14 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (cYBz/)

15 Ruined abbey (no further details given)

After The Paolo, Abbey she will never-a be, how you say, satisfied.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 22, 2025 07:50 PM (TbWk/)

16 Abby Shapiro is ruined?
Posted by: Count de Monet, misunderstanding at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (wVcYX)

Well, her brother posted pictures of her wearing maternity clothes...

There ain't nothing wrong with 'her'. Damn fine spec-i-mines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

17
Ben Had,

That's good to know. We haven't bought plastic wrap for years cause it's a pain in the ass.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:51 PM (3ek7K)

18 Ruined Abbey

Her boyfriend bought Ms. Shapiro the wrong-sized bra?

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 07:51 PM (77rzZ)

19 Hiya Duke!

How are you doing these days? Are you putting some weight back on? Feeling chipperer?

Still holding you in prayer, sir. Know you are loved.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (dataO)

20 That's good to know. We haven't bought plastic wrap for years cause it's a pain in the ass.

Posted by: fourseasons

Same here. I buy that self sealing stuff.

Posted by: Tuna at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (lJ0H4)

21 Experiment completed. Tearing the plastic wrap from left to right give a clean cut all the way through and no wadding up.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

Being a southpaw, that might explain why I hate plastic wrap so much.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (0aYVJ)

22 A Muppets Family Christmas 1987 TV Special

https://is.gd/W2Fiyl

I cued it up to Swedish Chef's entrance.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:46 PM (CWez5)

LOL +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (wVcYX)

23 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

24
Tuna, I'll try that. I figured it would be the same as the plastic wrap.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)

25 Villers Abbey in Belgium.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (3uBP9)

26 Wow, Abby Shapiro obviously resides rent-free in the Horde Mind.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

27 Thanks, Nurse! Getting better and gaining weight. I no longer look like a POW.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (u73oe)

28 No idea why this didn't come up.on my phone 9 minutes ago

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

29 Leopard seals don't get nearly the credit they deserve.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

30 Left to right? How are you all holding the roll of Saran wrap?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (zZu0s)

31 Nail them to the f'ing wall

@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)

32 It's 3 days before Christmas in west metro Denver, 6 pm in the evening, and the temp outside is 68F.

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)

33 Left to right? How are you all holding the roll of Saran wrap?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I hold it in my left and rip upwards right to left. I suck at it nonetheless.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:56 PM (mlg/3)

34
It was 55 degrees here in Wyoming this morning. It's very unusual.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:57 PM (3ek7K)

35 29 Big Penguin sees to that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 07:57 PM (77rzZ)

36 Y’all don’t cut your plastic wrap with a switchblade?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 07:57 PM (u73oe)

37 Nail them to the f'ing wall

@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)

Like turning off the security cameras for the Palestinean activists to harrass Jews without being filmed.

The Poison Ivy League.

Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 07:58 PM (gKDq2)

38 Aetius, box in left hand, normally tearing with right hand to the left. Now zI roll out the amount and tear left to right. Clean as a whistle every time.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)

39 Master Carpenter Norm and I will be taking a look at updating the foyer with Italian tile and refinishing the balustrade to be good as new!

Posted by: Bob Vila, This Old Monastery at December 22, 2025 07:58 PM (jibVG)

40
Remember, the ragheads have rights we citizens don't have.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:59 PM (3ek7K)

41 One of the Brown custodians warned officials days before about the shooter. They dismissed his concerns.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 07:59 PM (KDPiq)

42 Good videos, wonder how long it took to trai the fast frenz?
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

43 I stink at tearing off Saran Wrap.

That shit is Satan-adjacent.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (77rzZ)

44 Monks must have been terrible at housekeeping and maintenance, there are ruined abbeys all over the world.

Posted by: Could Have Called Grainger at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (oftw2)

45 I cut the cling wrap with a pair of sharp scissors. No bunching up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)

46 Love the kitty fighting his shadow.

I have a funny video of our then 15mo old first granddaughter who tried to catch her shadow. There had not been a lot of sun for weeks and it was the perfect time for her to discover her shadow. The sun was streaming through the doors to the deck.

I kept telling her to catch it! She tries and at one point said she did. She was very articulate from a very young age and still super cute and funny two years later.

Her new baby sister may be the smartest of them all, as they compete with big brother in all things.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (WONhk)

47 What? Sharks don't drown if they stop moving? I feel so lied to!

.... this is probably Disney's fault, somehow.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 22, 2025 08:01 PM (a+4eV)

48 It's 3 days before Christmas in west metro Denver, 6 pm in the evening, and the temp outside is 68F.
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)

When younger son was a toddler, we took a road trip from Montana to Fort Collins. It was 70 and sunny on December 3. A big reason why we moved there. Also, at the time it was a great place to get a good job.

Didn't take long for it all to go to shit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (0aYVJ)

49 Ruined abbey (no further details given)

Looks like some of the ancient churches I saw in Turkey. Perhaps in better shape though.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (2WIwB)

50 I saw that Odyssey trailer. It tells the viewer almost nothing about what the story is. Would it kill them to give me just a glimpse of the Sirens, or maybe a cyclops?
Also I don't like it when characters from antiquity use contemporary parts of speech, such as 'can't ' for 'cannot'.

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (ZxPkt)

51 I never use clingwrap. I will always use a container or a zip bag instead. I am tired of being mauled by a stupid box.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (3uBP9)

52 >>What? Sharks don't drown if they stop moving? I feel so lied to!

Some will. Great Whites can't stop swimming a number of other species. But some can sleep on the bottom as long as water if flowing over their gills.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:03 PM (viF8m)

53 47 Disney faked the whole “lemmings going over a cliff” thing. Who knows how many rodents died in that scene.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (77rzZ)

54 37 Nail them to the f'ing wall

@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)
---------------

Investigate their billion dollar trust fund and impound it into the national debt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (YubK1)

55 Abigail Shapiro doesn't wrap her cookies in Saran Wrap. She uses Tupperware to keep them fresh and moist.

Posted by: Remember to "Burp" at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (oftw2)

56 I should like to have a ruined abbey.

Would be an enchanting place for a secret garden.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (zYpTz)

57 Wonder how many cell phones get dropped on a given day?
Bet it's a lot. They need to make them where they bounce.

Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (G1OIb)

58 Remember, the ragheads have rights we citizens don't have.

Posted by: fourseasons

The City of Columbus (Ohio) has posted on their website that the police will not help ICE in any way.

You know, we love everyone, even illegals, kumbaya blah blah blah.

Sure would be a shame if the Feds pulled all federal grants and $$ from the city.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (cYBz/)

59 If I had a kitchen big enough, I'd get one of those commercial plastic wrap stands. Those seem to work for the short order cooks.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:05 PM (mlg/3)

60 Some will. Great Whites can't stop swimming a number of other species. But some can sleep on the bottom as long as water if flowing over their gills.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:03 PM (viF8m)

And they pick the spot where the underwater current does it best.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 08:05 PM (KDPiq)

61 Ruined abbey (no further details given)

Odd that there is an intact font(?) right smack in the middle.

Local kids must bring out little generators, fill it up with "punch", and have raves.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:06 PM (/lPRQ)

62 I saw that Odyssey trailer. It tells the viewer almost nothing about what the story is. Would it kill them to give me just a glimpse of the Sirens, or maybe a cyclops?
Also I don't like it when characters from antiquity use contemporary parts of speech, such as 'can't ' for 'cannot'.
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (ZxPkt)

The Sirens better have bewbs or I'm out.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:06 PM (2WIwB)

63 Maybe the clingwrap has abandonment issues. Kindness is Everything.

Posted by: Your Kid's MSW at School at December 22, 2025 08:07 PM (jibVG)

64
Tonypete,

That's what needs to happen. It's a pipedream though.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 08:08 PM (3ek7K)

65 All that abbey needs is Zoot.

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 08:08 PM (LHPAg)

66 25 Villers Abbey in Belgium.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM
***
Yep. Beautiful place. A little cognitive dissonance to see a "ruin" so well taken care of. Hidden gem.

Orval in Belgium is another worthy visit. Good beer there too.

Posted by: TRex - ruined dino at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (cCn4/)

67 Experiment completed. Tearing the plastic wrap from left to right give a clean cut all the way through and no wadding up.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

Being a southpaw, that might explain why I hate plastic wrap so much.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (0aYVJ)

Depends on what hemisphere you are in.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (dK+Kv)

68 I like the cling wrap door prank.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (KDPiq)

69 It's 3 days before Christmas in west metro Denver, 6 pm in the evening, and the temp outside is 68F.
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)

40 in central Montana. Was 48 this afternoon. Had 12 inches on of snow on the ground ago.

Posted by: free tibet at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (iNp3L)

70 Heh. You don't see any kids taking a piece of clingwrap and using it to sit on on the slide.
Wax paper rocks!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:10 PM (2WIwB)

71 I like the cling wrap door prank.
Posted by: Opinion fact

We don't discuss the toilet bowl prank.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:10 PM (mlg/3)

72 >>Orval in Belgium is another worthy visit. Good beer there too.

The ruins of the Church of St Paul in Macao is pretty cool. Sits on top of a hill in a small park and there are series of steps up to the front wall of the church. That's all thats left.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:11 PM (viF8m)

73 54 37 Nail them to the f'ing wall

@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)
---------------

Investigate their billion dollar trust fund and impound it into the national debt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (YubK1)

Good! I read that the administration turned off the cameras after pressure from pro-Hamas groups. Only 4 were functioning out of 1200.

The liberal womman president admitted there were NONE in the lecture hall or outside due to it "being an older part of the building" & opening directly to a residential area.

Again, it was residential cameras like RING who identified him. Clearer video from Alamo.

I would think Brown attny's were freaking out anytime she stepped up with her eye twitch to the mic.

It was something to see live. The press gave them pure hell, and, for once I enjoyed it. The press questioned the security nimrod on why no one checked warnings and he mumobojumboed until the Governor of RI inserted himself (he did this a lot, the guvnuh).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 08:11 PM (WONhk)

74 13 Experiment completed. Tearing the plastic wrap from left to right give a clean cut all the way through and no wadding up.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

I have long since given up on that plastic wrap tear strip nonsense. Stretch the wrap over the dish, press it down, and cut that b**tch clean with scissors.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:12 PM (zYpTz)

75 I cut the cling wrap with a pair of sharp scissors. No bunching up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)

Buy Costco plastic wrap with the included sliding razor cutter. Cheaper and no fuss.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 08:12 PM (dK+Kv)

76 Steady rain most of the night and much of the day here. Temperatures varied from 40 to 50. Bogus Basin is still waiting for it to cool off enough to make snow. Late for them, apparently. It' my first winter here. Weird seeing wild roses blooming in December.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)

77 "The Sirens better have bewbs or I'm out.
Posted by: Diogenes"

You'll be lucky if they don't have dicks.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

78 One of my first world problem pet-peeves (I’ve many…

is how many products today are thoughtfully provided with zip-lock style closures, though crucially without genuine Zip-Lock materials or construction. I’m looking at you, Soft Tortilla people, among others.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:15 PM (H4laq)

79 The plastic wrap I buy has a little sliding cutter. You draw out a length of wrap, slide the cutter across, and Bob's your uncle.

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (ZxPkt)

80 Wasn't elliot/Ellen page supposed to be the cyclops?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

81
Looks like we'll have a White Christmas Eve with gusty wind. Nice, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (CWez5)

82 You people know a lot about plastic wrap.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)

83 German tourist tries to go thru French Customs.
French Customs Official: Name?
German Tourist: Franz Gephardt
French Customs Official: Nationality?
German Tourist: German
French Customs Official: Occupation?
German Tourist: No, not this time. Just visiting.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (dAOkg)

84 >>>Video of the actual inner workings of the blog.

At least the blog doesn't play that awful music.

Well, you know, except for the Zappa.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (syz1S)

85 Democrats in a Prairie Dog Cafe:

Alcohol is killing the children, let's raise taxes:
- Tax revenue is down, this is hurting the economy!

Tobacco is killing the children, let's raise taxes:
- Tax revenue is down, this is hurting the economy!

Gasoline is killing the children and the environment, let's make them buy EVs:
- Tax revenue is down, this is killing the economy and is unsustainable!

Abortion is good, - open borders is better!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (nljXp)

86 Whoo! I can open a casino!

Trump signs Lumbee recognition into law, capping tribe’s decades-long effort

https://tinyurl.com/2ekawwsk

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (jc0TO)

87
My 24 yr old Navigator passed State inspection, today. And Rib Eye Roast @ $8.99/lb. A good day.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (CWez5)

88 The City of Columbus (Ohio) has posted on their website that the police will not help ICE in any way.

You know, we love everyone, even illegals, kumbaya blah blah blah.

Sure would be a shame if the Feds pulled all federal grants and $$ from the city.
Posted by: Tonypete

That's the only way to get their attention.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (dAOkg)

89 69 It's 3 days before Christmas in west metro Denver, 6 pm in the evening, and the temp outside is 68F.
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)

It's three days before Christmas in bucolic Puyallup. Mrs D just said another big storm is rolling in on Christmas Eve. It's 45 out now and dropping, raining hard.
I got cigars. I got whiskey. Just finished the cookies. Generator is set. Mrs D said we may have to open a gift (French Press coffee maker early)
Oh shit!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (2WIwB)

90 One of my first world problem pet-peeves (I’ve many… is how many products today are thoughtfully provided with zip-lock style closures, though crucially without genuine Zip-Lock materials or construction. I’m looking at you, Soft Tortilla people, among others.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:15 PM (H4laq)

Those tortilla packages will seal. You just have to be really, really slow about it. I buy them for my burritos.

Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (gKDq2)

91 Yes, I have. But we didn’t land.

Posted by: Just The Punchline at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (H4laq)

92
Whoo! I can open a casino!

Posted by: toby928

Are you of the Fakawi tribe, also?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (CWez5)

93 Supposed to just keep getting warmer leading up to and on Christmas.

I am good with that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:20 PM (zZu0s)

94 My 24 yr old Navigator passed State inspection, today. And Rib Eye Roast @ $8.99/lb. A good day.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Move to Texas. Don't live in one of the mega plexes. No inspection.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:20 PM (dAOkg)

95
I get the Costco house brand plastic wrap and install the sliding cutter provided. Works fine.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 08:20 PM (azNOR)

96 Those tortilla packages will seal. You just have to be really, really slow about it.
——-

Well yes, but that’s … why I’m complaining. Don’t ruin my misery!

Posted by: Just The Punchline at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (H4laq)

97 Family lore gives us Lumbee blood, and adds the spice of some African as well.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (jc0TO)

98 One of my first world problem pet-peeves (I’ve many… is how many products today are thoughtfully provided with zip-lock style closures, though crucially without genuine Zip-Lock materials or construction. I’m looking at you, Soft Tortilla people, among others.
Posted by: Common Tater

I use Ziploc Freezer bags for everything. Except for the vacuum sealer stuff.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (dAOkg)

99 The City of Columbus (Ohio) has posted on their website that the police will not help ICE in any way.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (cYBz/)

I think, though I'm not 100% certain, that the Columbus police then said they will cooperate with other law enforcement agencies, including ICE.

Can't find it, now.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz)

100 West African

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (jc0TO)

101 without genuine Zip-Lock materials or construction. I’m looking at you, Soft Tortilla people, among others.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:15 PM (H4laq)

Those tortilla packages will seal. You just have to be really, really slow about it. I buy them for my burritos.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (gKDq2)

I keep a drawer full of binder clips, because I have very little patience with so-called zip locks. The best ones I ever saw were the ones that were more like velcro. I wonder why that technology is not more prevalent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (0aYVJ)

102 Family lore gives us Lumbee blood, and adds the spice of some African as well.
Posted by: toby928(c)

High cheekbones?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (dAOkg)

103 The noise of anti-Penguin fanaticism frequently drowns out the facts – not to be confused with the mere propaganda that is “Penguin Facts” - of the evil of world-wide Spheniscidacide. Pro-Penguin groups such as the Penguin Anti-Communist Organization and Penguin Aid Charities Online struggle daily to penetrate the curtain of towering mendacity that impedes the dissemination of truth.

Thus it is good to see the true facts manifest themselves through the publication of news articles in the media. We have underscored the influence of left-wing billionaire Geetus L. Mazuma in reducing, if not eliminating, the international penguin population in pursuit of his goal of cornering the market on anchovies. Behold, the evidence, as published by SciTech Daily: “African Penguins Face Growing Danger As Fishing Fleets Move In”.

African penguin numbers have dropped by nearly 80% over the last thirty years. One contributing factor has been competition with local fisheries that harvest sardines and anchovies, which are a crucial food source for the penguins.

https://tinyurl.com/47mny9ru

Posted by: Paco at December 22, 2025 08:24 PM (2L+MU)

104 I keep a drawer full of binder clips, because I have very little patience with so-called zip locks. The best ones I ever saw were the ones that were more like velcro.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (0aYVJ)

Those velcro types don't work very well if they get stuff in them, like spices or powdery debris from the snack inside.

Nothing beats binder clips.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:24 PM (zYpTz)

105
What The Fuuuuu???

I just watched the very end of the Muppet Christmas Special I linked above, and heard this:

https://is.gd/zd7hMg

During the end-credits, some ABC asswipe comes on to announce a segment on the next dumb "Nightline" episode. And it's a "keeping doomed babies alive for the organs."

Unbelievable.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:25 PM (CWez5)

106 I like to re-use empty zip-lock style equipped bags as well. Ex. Dividing ground beef into 1 pound packs for freezing. Another defect with the ersatz zip-lock is they will separate, foiling my re-cycling strategy. Speaking of, I like aluminium foil better than Saran wrap, which is a cheap trick played on consumers by the plastics industry

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:26 PM (H4laq)

107 High cheekbones?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM

and high color. Like apples.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:26 PM (jc0TO)

108 Binder clips are far better than anything for holding potato chip bags closed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

109 I knew a ruined Abby when I was in college. She had a quite an apse on her.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (pIfcn)

110 Family lore gives us Lumbee blood, and adds the spice of some African as well.
Posted by: toby928(c)

High cheekbones?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (dAOkg)

***

Best way to get tribal recognition in thus state requires an envelop stuffed with cash.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (2WIwB)

111 Speaking of, I like aluminium foil better than Saran wrap, which is a cheap trick played on consumers by the plastics industry
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:26 PM (H4laq)

You and Weird Al.

Look up 'Foil' on ewetub.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

112 So my local rag just ran a story about the new Trump class battleships the navy is building. Got to say, 1) is this true? and 2) why is this Smart Military Blog getting scooped by my local rag?

Link (remove spaces) https://www.deseret.com /politics/2025/12/22/ trump-announces-golden-fleet- navy-battleships-venezuela/

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 08:28 PM (/ZkOF)

113 We talked about battleships like the first ace thread today!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)

114
Yes we did

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (3ek7K)

115 And to link this altogether, I wish someone would invent an edible “velcro” for soft Tortilla. My taco bending skills are OK, but some sort of closure on a Tortilla would be nice.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (H4laq)

116 Colts' O-line is all Caucasians. Don't think I've seen that in a long time.

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (ZxPkt)

117 Hottest selling game this year: You Sunk My Cartel Boat!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:31 PM (2WIwB)

118 And to link this altogether, I wish someone would invent an edible “velcro” for soft Tortilla. My taco bending skills are OK, but some sort of closure on a Tortilla would be nice.
Posted by: Common Tater

Nuke them in the micro for like 30 sec, then wet the edge with warm water. Press to close. Kinda sorta works.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:31 PM (mlg/3)

119 And to link this altogether, I wish someone would invent an edible “velcro” for soft Tortilla. My taco bending skills are OK, but some sort of closure on a Tortilla would be nice.
Posted by: Common Tater

Refried beans, black.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:32 PM (/lPRQ)

120 We are all born to die – the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live
— Gina Lollabrigida

Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 08:32 PM (GITLP)

121 they are not battleships big destroyers

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:32 PM (i4e1s)

122 Binder clips are far better than anything for holding potato chip bags closed.
——

Wait. Once opened, why would anyone want to close a potato chip bag? This makes no sense

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:33 PM (H4laq)

123 I hope he gets jail time

@PeterBernegger 3h
An FEC complaint has been filed against US Senator Mark Kelly for Smurfing. Totaling a stunning $41,300,637.00

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:33 PM (mlg/3)

124 And to link this altogether, I wish someone would invent an edible “velcro” for soft Tortilla. My taco bending skills are OK, but some sort of closure on a Tortilla would be nice.
Posted by: Com

cheese

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:34 PM (i4e1s)

125 And to link this altogether, I wish someone would invent an edible “velcro” for soft Tortilla. My taco bending skills are OK, but some sort of closure on a Tortilla would be nice.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (H4laq)

Refried beans on top. Makes a great glue.

Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 08:34 PM (gKDq2)

126 2) why is this Smart Military Blog getting scooped by my local rag?

Because no one here grew up wanting to play Navy.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:35 PM (2WIwB)

127 116 Colts' O-line is all Caucasians. Don't think I've seen that in a long time.
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (ZxPkt)
I thought all whypipa was forced out of sportsball leagues?

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 08:35 PM (LHPAg)

128 >>> 58 Remember, the ragheads have rights we citizens don't have.

Posted by: fourseasons

The City of Columbus (Ohio) has posted on their website that the police will not help ICE in any way.

You know, we love everyone, even illegals, kumbaya blah blah blah.

Sure would be a shame if the Feds pulled all federal grants and $$ from the city.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (cYBz/)

Yeah, saw a clip that was said to be a bunch of klantifags blasting car stereos in a Columbus hotel parking lot at 2am because they thought some ICE agents were staying there.

Arrest the entire fucking department starting with the DEItard* chief. At 3am, with flashbangs and tear gas, and teewee crews.

*I don't know this but what odds would you give?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:36 PM (ULPxl)

129 what is 'smurfing'

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:39 PM (ZxPkt)

130 from what I have gleened from popular culture, the YMCA is where Navy guys stay when ashore, when the fleet is in town those thing are stuffed, overflowing with seamen

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:39 PM (i4e1s)

131 Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 08:28 PM

Dude. We daywalked that topic thoroughly.

Posted by: Blonde Mortician on another device at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (4LEHh)

132 Cigar of this evening

Man O' War Puro Authentico
Bellicoso 4.5 x 50. But I'd say closer to a 45.

Full bodied. Ligero. Very well constructed. This one is the Maduro wrapper, so maybe a were less punch than the habano.
Good cigar for beginners ( Just kidding )

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (/lPRQ)

133 what is 'smurfing'

painting your girlfriend blue

or

dividing finance transactions into smaller bits to avoid regulatory limits

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (i4e1s)

134 don't let me down

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (ZxPkt)

135 Villers Abbey in Belgium.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (3uBP9)

Hasn't been turned into a mosque, because too much like work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)

136
Hell man, we had running commentary on the Big Beautiful Battleships with frickin' lasers on top as Donnie Two Scoops was talking live.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (w6EFb)

137 Searched a bit and found the top image is of Villers Abbey in Belgium. The French wrecked it when they were in their revolutionary phase.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (pLSjm)

138 what is 'smurfing'
Posted by: Don Black

A specific type of money laundering that politicians engage in.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (/lPRQ)

139 >>> 123 I hope he gets jail time

@PeterBernegger 3h
An FEC complaint has been filed against US Senator Mark Kelly for Smurfing. Totaling a stunning $41,300,637.00
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:33 PM (mlg/3)

Who did it for him? I don't believe that timwalz could do it himself.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (ULPxl)

140 Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (2WIwB)

141 >>An FEC complaint has been filed against US Senator Mark Kelly for Smurfing. Totaling a stunning $41,300,637.00

That's a LOT of Smurfing.

Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (W23D2)

142
You know that song that goes whoa oh oh it's magic?

I cued it up to the la-la-la-la-la part:

https://is.gd/n0ixHk

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (CWez5)

143 Dinesh D'Souza sucks, and one thing he famously sucked at was smurfing. He tried to get around New York's campaign finance laws by getting frens to support his candidate Wendy Long. He paid them, they donated to his girl. In 2018 Trump pardoned D'Souza.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 08:44 PM (sDWtc)

144
Because no one here grew up wanting to play Navy.
Posted by: Diogenes

Ouch.

Our head count for St. Barb is now up to 440. We have six or seven GOs registered, with MG Gibson as the guest speaker. 65 honorable, 12 ancients. 27 corporate sponsorships at $1500/table. The local FA association is going to have 12 honorable and 3 ancients.

I never expected it to get this big.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM (QVmho)

145 >>> 140 Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (2WIwB)

Oh THAT kind of smurfing. I went right to the ddos type...

...so, what about the JEF?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM (ULPxl)

146 140
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'

Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)

147 cheese
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:34 PM (i4e1s)

A hot glue gun you could load with string cheese would be useful for assembling all sorts of yummy snacks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)

148 I never expected it to get this big.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM (QVmho)

Bif! That's awesome!!!
Just make damned sure the kitchen, bar, and wait staff are up to task. It's going to be great!!! I can taste the punch now!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (2WIwB)

149 Why the hate for Dinesh? What he was convicted for was for doing one tenth of one percent of what every congressman who’s run for office in the last 50 years has done.

I suppose the topic is a pet peeve of mine; I looked into the details of campaign finance closely a few years back. What I found is that laws are written with all kinds of hidden pitfalls along with loopholes so that the *only* way to keep from breaking the law is to hire a full time campaign consultant and an experienced attorney.

And that’s the only point of the rules, to make sure that anyone who tries to do it in their own is guaranteed to break the law.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (pLSjm)

150 >>> 146 140
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'

Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)

Wouldn't it be easier to set up a zillion bogus accounts controlled by the funder?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:52 PM (ULPxl)

151 Fwiw, two F-117 airframes were spotted running around CA near Mt. Whitney a few days ago. Not a surprise that they a few are still flying but pretty amazing to see them flying at low altitude in daylight (which they never would have done when in service).

Posted by: TRex - stealth dino at December 22, 2025 08:53 PM (cCn4/)

152
Ruined abbey (no further details given)

----

I told her to keep her mouth shut, if she knew what was good for her.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (e+Yrg)

___________

"Ruined? Put the boots to her last night and she worked fine!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:53 PM (tgvbd)

153 I never expected it to get this big.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM

She exclaimed..

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:53 PM (jc0TO)

154 Between the hammer of DEI and the anvil of H-1B, Dinesh chose to be the anvil.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (sDWtc)

155 Penny Hofstadter

https://x.com/Leg453/status/
2002808768216916232

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (ZxPkt)

156 115 And to link this altogether, I wish someone would invent an edible “velcro” for soft Tortilla. My taco bending skills are OK, but some sort of closure on a Tortilla would be nice.

Gotcha covered:
https://tinyurl.com/msshy323
From 2022: Johns Hopkins students invent edible 'Tastee Tape' to keep burritos together

Posted by: MD_Mike at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (A5TIN)

157 ULPxl)

146 140
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'

Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)

ActBlue, the Democrats main fundraising organization , did this for over a Billion dollars worth of campaign financing. And still no one has been arrested, no one has been charged.

Dinesh got charged for a few thousand, political chump change.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (pLSjm)

158 Just got home. Had to stop and see my fishmonger and order some troll
Caught Alaskan king salmon for Christmas
Eve dinner.

Also got some dungeoness crab cakes for breakfast Christmas morning.

Things are coming together!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (3uMpI)

159 Trump announced that we would begin construction of new BATTLESHIPS
To be called Trump Class.
The biggest ever built

This is not a joke or AI

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 08:55 PM (Mi0Ar)

160 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (jc0TO)

161
Reddit Fuckface thinks that's an own.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (CWez5)

162 A hot glue gun you could load with string cheese would be useful for assembling all sorts of yummy snacks.
Posted by: Alber

cheezwhiz!

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (aQs8R)

163 >>Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (3uMpI)

I would have got some Ling Cod.

Hope you are doing well and that you (and your boys) have a Merry Christmas!

Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (W23D2)

164
Hasn't been turned into a mosque, because too much like work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)

___________

Import some Philippine slaves. Problem solved.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (tgvbd)

165 Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'

Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)

Wouldn't it be easier to set up a zillion bogus accounts controlled by the funder?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

This what AI is made for.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:57 PM (/lPRQ)

166 try

https://tinyurl.com/yc5ny73h

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:57 PM (ZxPkt)

167 Winred just steals your money and gives it to who they want, not who you gave it for.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:57 PM (jc0TO)

168 150
'Wouldn't it be easier to set up a zillion bogus accounts controlled by the funder?'

There are probably several easy ways to do it.
But the more efficient they are the more it looks like acrime.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (fd80v)

169 >>Trump announced that we would begin construction of new BATTLESHIPS
To be called Trump Class.

Obviously he has been playing Azur Lane while watching the Gorilla Channel.

Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (W23D2)

170 obama smurfed by turning of credit card verifications

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (nZ8Vq)

171 Import some Philippine slaves. Problem solved.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM

We still talking about smurfing?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (jc0TO)

172 A chemist froze himself at -273.15°C, everyone said he was crazy but he was 0K.

Posted by: pawn at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (EMg+d)

173 Battleships are a WW1 tech. unless we can get them into space like I'm assured they did for the Yamato

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 08:59 PM (sDWtc)

174 A hot glue gun you could load with string cheese would be useful for assembling all sorts of yummy snacks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)

I was trying to think of what foodstuffs could be used to make edible rivets.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 09:00 PM (zYpTz)

175 157
' And still no one has been arrested, no one has been charged.'

Charge in a red state. Shoot for maximum punishment.
I don't know what's holding them back.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (fd80v)

176 Also got some dungeoness crab cakes for breakfast Christmas morning.

Things are coming together!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (3uMpI)

Buddy of mine has a kayak and scored some crabs for a Christmas casserole. He got them off Camano.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (2WIwB)

177 I would have got some Ling Cod.

Hope you are doing well and that you (and your boys) have a Merry Christmas!
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (W23D2)

(sings)
Ling Ting Cod, he would never get scrod, ai somoka boom ai ay, ai somoka boom

https://youtu.be/zbdAWc4bY_Y

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (npFr7)

178 The more range your sensors have, the more speed your weapons have the less you need BBs

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (CfiRx)

179 Space Battleship Yamato is a silly movie full of inconsistencies with a bad and nearly inexplicable ending.

Fight me!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (jc0TO)

180 Things are coming together!
Posted by: nur

everybody is happier that way, in the end

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (SGZ8k)

181 The Trump Class ships will be the largest, most luxurious ships in the fleet- really spectacular

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (ZxPkt)

182
146 140
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'

Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM

------

The Democrat organization ActBlue was found to be using thousands of peoples' names to make small donations without the peoples' knowledge or permission.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (azNOR)

183 I think the deal with the ships is that the Arleigh Burke class has come to the end of its design life, and the Naval designers realize that they’re going to need a bigger basic platform to carry everything they want to put on it. So the new model is really gonna be a really big destroyer, or what a Cruiser used to be. But Trump likes the name Battleship so that’s what they’re going to be called.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:03 PM (pLSjm)

184 Imagine a heavily armed nuclear powered pycrete island base a couple of miles long. Sure, it might only move at 3 knots, but that just increases the horror as it slowly creeps toward our enemies.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (jc0TO)

185 The Trump Class ships will be the largest, most luxurious ships in the fleet- really spectacular
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (ZxPkt)

Near as I can tell, they won't be actual battleships, more like guided missile cruisers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (npFr7)

186
Space Battleship Yamato is a silly movie full of inconsistencies with a bad and nearly inexplicable ending.

Fight me!
Posted by: toby928

Never saw it.
Recommend?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (CWez5)

187 The Democrat organization ActBlue was found to be using thousands of peoples' names to make small donations without the peoples' knowledge or permission.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (azNOR)

And don't you dare complain if they used your name, if you know what's good for you.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:05 PM (2WIwB)

188 If AI can be used to construct videos that look authentic, campaign donations ought to be child’s play. Or even the ballots and elections, then they don’t even need the $$$.

Those stupid “voters” aren’t casting their ballots the correct way, so active measures must be taken. Democracy is far too important to be decided by voters, if you stop and think about it

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:05 PM (vlJl4)

189 Recommend?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM

Space Battleship Yamato is a silly movie full of inconsistencies with a bad and nearly inexplicable ending.

So, yeah. Sure.

At least you can say that you watched it.

Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 09:06 PM (jc0TO)

190 Imagine a heavily armed nuclear powered pycrete island base a couple of miles long. Sure, it might only move at 3 knots, but that just increases the horror as it slowly creeps toward our enemies.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM
Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (jc0TO)

If the hull shape is correct, it doesn't have to be slow, regardless of size.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:06 PM (npFr7)

191 169 >>Trump announced that we would begin construction of new BATTLESHIPS
To be called Trump Class.
---

As long as we have manned ships on the sea

Refurbish a New Jersey class, nuclear powered, bristling with modern electronic and kinetics but keeping its profile. - It could be the admiral's command ship.

Flag officers belong with their men not cloistered at the pentagon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (YubK1)

192 I do love Ling cod. Used to catch them in Quartermaster Harbor on Vashon.

Halibut also looked good.

Even though the salmon has been frozen, it will be wonderful. I will bake it and serve with a lemon raspberry sauce.

I get crabs off my sup (stand up paddle board) in the summertime. Fun stuff!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (r36Mc)

193 Never saw it.
Recommend?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (CWez5)

well the concept is to do outer space warfare they use the BB Yamato as a base. So if that's too silly...

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (8avO+)

194 If the hull shape is correct, it doesn't have to be slow, regardless of size.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:06 PM

If you could get it over 6 knots I would be impressed. A half a cubic mile of ice would weigh a bunch.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (jc0TO)

195 179 Space Battleship Yamato is a silly movie full of inconsistencies with a bad and nearly inexplicable ending.

Fight me!
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (jc0TO)

That concept had a lot in common with Godzilla - modern Japanese trying to come to terms with the psychological baggage of losing WW2.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:08 PM (pLSjm)

196 Isn't there supposed to be a Godzilla -1 coming out?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (jc0TO)

197 n!

You magnificent bastard.
Ypungest was here with wife for Thanksgiving. They will be with her folks for Christmas. They are working on grandbabies! Prayers for their success!

Squeeeee!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (r36Mc)

198 If you could get it over 6 knots I would be impressed. A half a cubic mile of ice would weigh a bunch.
Posted by: toby92

momentum, inertia, hump speed, it is not getting it moving fast it is stopping thats the thing

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (SGZ8k)

199 A magnetic holographic projection that fools incoming seeking missiles.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (YubK1)

200 n!

You magnificent bastard.
Ypungest was here with wife for Thanksgiving. They will be with her folks for Christmas. They are working on grandbabies! Prayers for their success!

Squeeeee!
Posted by: nur

smiley face

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:11 PM (SGZ8k)

201 momentum, inertia, hump speed, it is not getting it moving fast it is stopping thats the thing
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (SGZ8k)

The Paolo has never worried abut hump speed.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 22, 2025 09:12 PM (npFr7)

202
Isn't there supposed to be a Godzilla -1 coming out?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Again?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:13 PM (CWez5)

203 "Call of Duty" video game creator Vincent Zampella has died in a car crash near Los Angeles.

STORY: https://buff.ly/NBXusHO

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:14 PM (dAOkg)

204 Tom Servo, D'nesh made a movie about Obama that was not complimentary. JEF had a stiffy for people who made him look bad. He was as touchy as a whore in that area.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:15 PM (rbvCR)

205
What it is is Big Don likes the term "battleship". So they're going to call them battleships. They are not traditional battleships.

I mean, you've got a Navy. You're gonna do battle. With ships. So, battleships. Makes perfect sense to me.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (w6EFb)

206 Isn't there supposed to be a Godzilla -1 coming out?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Again?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:13 PM

A prequel to Godzilla Zero. The rampaging of the giant lizard before he became atomic.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (jc0TO)

207 Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)

Used to be, but that is what Act Blue does now. They just use names of doners that donated in the past, and assign a portion to each name. It is hard to spot.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (rbvCR)

208 I liked G0 so I would watch a prequel.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:17 PM (jc0TO)

209 Used to be, but that is what Act Blue does now. They just use names of doners that donated in the past, and assign a portion to each name. It is hard to spot.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM

But easy to prove and yet, no one in prison.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:17 PM (jc0TO)

210 Flag officers belong with their men not cloistered at the pentagon.
——-

One of the few if not the only Generals in modern times to lead men in combat was Curtis LeMay. He flew flight lead, in the plane the enemy was most likely to try and hit.

One of the more remarkable individuals during a war that produced quite a few. Upon his death cunts like Peter Jennings (with the pseudo-intellectual affected speech patterns) had nothing good to say. That’s how you can tell he was good shit, even if you knew nothing about the man.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:18 PM (DSQyT)

211 pass on the ice boat

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (YubK1)

212
But that's Godzilla Minus 1.

btw, I think it's supposed "dash" 1, but people call it "minus." Makes no sense.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (CWez5)

213 We still talking about smurfing?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (jc0TO)

Of course. Schtroumpfing is far to Belgian to talk about here.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

214 pass on the ice boat
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM

It never really got a good trial. I think it could be like a Death Star.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (jc0TO)

215 But that's Godzilla Minus 1.

Okay fine, Minus 2.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:20 PM (jc0TO)

216 I figured the one with Raymond Burr was 1.0.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:21 PM (jc0TO)

217 I was trying to think of what foodstuffs could be used to make edible rivets.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 09:00 PM (zYpTz)

Isomalt. If you are worried about ductability and strength, mix it will finely ground bran before extruding into shape.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:21 PM (rbvCR)

218 But easy to prove and yet, no one in prison.
Posted by: toby928(c)
----------

Bondi's giving us rice n beans while calling it steak.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:21 PM (YubK1)

219 Godzilla 0.8 beta

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:22 PM (jc0TO)

220
Just looked, they're gonna call it Godzilla minus 0.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (CWez5)

221 My wife is Christmas cooking.

I'm hiding.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (jc0TO)

222 Gen’l Buck Turgidson was a pretty irreverent caricature of Curtis LeMay.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (pLSjm)

223 It never really got a good trial. I think it could be like a Death Star.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (jc0TO)

It got hashed over here a lot a year or two ago. I think the design had some potentially fatal defect that just got handwaved away by the proponents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:24 PM (npFr7)

224 222 Gen’l Buck Turgidson was a pretty irreverent caricature of Curtis LeMay.
Posted by: Tom Servo
-----------

Producer, Director and Cast were so disappointed that the public was not shocked but enjoyed the film.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:26 PM (YubK1)

225
Some more Epstein photos are out. These show Epstein holding and cuddling very young girls. Tweens and younger looks like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 09:27 PM (w6EFb)

226 It got hashed over here a lot a year or two ago. I think the design had some potentially fatal defect that just got handwaved away by the proponents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:24 PM (npFr7)

If we had a new ice age you could put giant sails on it and go around the world. Hmm, come up with some characters, talk Kevin Costner into financing IceWorld!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:27 PM (pLSjm)

227 --- some potentially fatal defect

ice melts?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:28 PM (YubK1)

228 I like the idea of seizing all the endowments and assets of the Ivy League toward our federal deficit. The Dissolution of the Liberal Monasteries, as it were.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:30 PM (jc0TO)

229
Democrat Madrassas

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:31 PM (CWez5)

230 Epstein, Clinton are shiny things distracting from the twelve remaining days on major felons statute of limitations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:31 PM (YubK1)

231 Build your mega-super battleship out of air-entrained concrete with a net specific gravity of 0.8 or 0.9, similar to ice, but needing no refrigeration. Embed tubes in the structure, stem to stern, at intervals, and pass cables through the tubes, and then tension up the cables once the concrete has cured. Puts the entire structure under compression, and greatly enhances the strength. Hull mostly solid, relatively few cavities, mainly the engine room.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:32 PM (npFr7)

232 My wife is Christmas cooking.

I'm hiding.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (jc0TO)

Good move.
So far today I have done nothing right, including not rolling the cooking in the sprinkles properly. I'm saying Eff It and staying in my den.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:32 PM (2WIwB)

233 An elephant? I'd wrap him up in celophant.

Posted by: The Cowardly Lion at December 22, 2025 09:36 PM (Q+gd/)

234 So my local rag just ran a story about the new Trump class battleships the navy is building. Got to say, 1) is this true? and 2) why is this Smart Military Blog getting scooped by my local rag?

The US is $40T in debt, and they want to spend billions to fight WW2.

A question should be asked: Exactly what scenario these days includes a battleship as its solution?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:36 PM (a4flb)

235 So, just Godzilla.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 09:37 PM (zZu0s)

236 It never really got a good trial.

You know what did get a good trial?

Posted by: Nuremberger Helper at December 22, 2025 09:38 PM (HduMd)

237
Trump announced that we would begin construction of new BATTLESHIPS
To be called Trump Class.

____________

USS Joseph McCarthy
USS John Wayne
USS Whittaker Chambers
USS Pat McCarran
USS Robert Taft

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 09:38 PM (tgvbd)

238 >>A question should be asked: Exactly what scenario these days includes a battleship as its solution?

Maybe a situation exactly like what is playing out in the Gulf of America right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:40 PM (viF8m)

239 some potentially fatal defect

ice melts?

Posted by: Braen

nope

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:40 PM (uVPc1)

240 USS Joseph McCarthy
USS John Wayne
USS Whittaker Chambers
USS Pat McCarran
USS Robert Taft
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 09:38 PM (tgvbd)

USS Charlie Kirk

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:41 PM (npFr7)

241 A question should be asked: Exactly what scenario these days includes a battleship as its solution?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:36 PM

You have to read the fine print. They are at best light cruisers. Big destroyers more like.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:41 PM (jc0TO)

242 Maybe a situation exactly like what is playing out in the Gulf of America right now.

They seem to be able to board with just helicopters. I fail to see why one needs to bring a battleship (or cruiser) to a confrontation with a potential epic oil spill.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:44 PM (a4flb)

243 I'm sure Anna Puma knew all this off the top. At 30,000 tons these ships, if built, would be roughly the size of the Alaska class large cruisers from WW II. Given the tech available now I doubt they would be used for anything but missile platforms that can move around pretty fast. Also, at this size, I'd expect several helicopters and possible some F-35's aboard.

That said, this may well just be a Trump Christmas troll to distract from other operations.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 22, 2025 09:45 PM (I1a0i)

244 Gen’l Buck Turgidson was a pretty irreverent caricature of Curtis LeMay.
——-

Well, naturally. Of course. The left is very, very adept at character assassination, as well as the other kind.

You might not like the guy’s politics, but if you have to go to war, or your children, your husband, etc and sometimes that happens, he’s the type of guy you want in charge, leading. No way around this.

Patton was an asshole at times, but the war in Europe would have ended 6 months earlier had he been allowed to take Berlin. Politicians were sucking up to “Uncle Joe” and let the Iron Curtain trap millions. Inexcusable. It’s not well known, but approximately 20k Americans and a similar figure for Brits and other allies were POWs held by the Soviets and never made it home.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:46 PM (bFwPh)

245 Movie thread! I'm watching "Snow Beast". It's "Jaws" on ice!

Comet shows nothing but prestige pictures.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (kpS4V)

246 @njhochman
·
Dec 20
Here's the Premier of New South Wales:

"We don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the U.S., and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community."

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (ZxPkt)

247 Build your mega-super battleship out of air-entrained concrete with a net specific gravity of 0.8 or 0.9, similar to ice, but needing no refrigeration.

I kind of prefer the Chinese solution: a large platform that can deploy thousands of drones. Who know how many submersible drones could also be released.

Naval drones did a bang-up job on Nordstream pipeline

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (a4flb)

248 In addition to announcing new ships Trump doubled down on Greenland today. He also appointed LA Gov Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland.

He's dead serious about his arctic plans and enforcing his version of the Monroe Doctrine. That means a lotta coastline to protect.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (viF8m)

249 Link (remove spaces) https://www.deseret.com /politics/2025/12/22/ trump-announces-golden-fleet- navy-battleships-venezuela/

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 08:28 PM (/ZkOF)

How bout you remove the spaces and whatnot and make the link useable?

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (G+z4C)

250 I wonder if we still have any stock of 8 inch tubes and shells.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:48 PM (jc0TO)

251 That said, this may well just be a Trump Christmas troll to distract from other operations.

Anything that floats can be sunk, just admire the Iranian Navy†

† you will need a glass bottom boat to do so though.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (a4flb)

252 Drone Carriers.

Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (Q+gd/)

253 That ICE Santa video is nice...
But I bet Mannheim Steamroller or that other Christmasy orchestra yells about their music being used.

Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (D3HHy)

254
Just make damned sure the kitchen, bar, and wait staff are up to task. It's going to be great!!! I can taste the punch now!
Posted by: Diogenes

I wwent with the beest venue i could get in town. They're waiving their venu fee because of the headcount, and advised me to secure five of the portable bars as well as the main pub for the size of the crowd. I asked them to put one bar in the hallway where the photographer will set up in a 'free' room they are giving us.

Jeebus, this is worse than deploying to SWA. I got five of my own damned vice presidents showing up. The former deputy under sec of the Army stopped me in Publix yesterday and asked if I wanted him to bring his vintage civil war sabre for the cake cutting ceremony.

I need whiskey.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 09:51 PM (QVmho)

255 >>Drone Carriers.

Nice big launching area on the aft deck.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:51 PM (viF8m)

256 They seem to be able to board with just helicopters. I fail to see why one needs to bring a battleship (or cruiser) to a confrontation with a potential epic oil spill.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:44 PM (a4flb)

Helicopters don't loiter for days, and don't carry big tubes. Apparently during the Missouri's trip to Lebanon and adjacent area, the thing that really got everyone's attention was making giant craters with the main guns.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (rbvCR)

257 You missed one: USS Elizabeth Bentley
——

We don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the U.S., and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community

Good Lord. Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (74/ii)

258 What the heck does the Governor of Louisiana know about Greenland?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (pLSjm)

259 Anything that floats can be sunk, just admire the Iranian Navy†

† you will need a glass bottom boat to do so though.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (a4flb)

Brilliant.

This is like saying no one should spend money on airpower because anything that can fly can be shot down.

Posted by: derp patrol at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (qSgoZ)

260 'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'

Now you know why every damned political fundraising solicitation comes with a "whatever you can contribute will be matched 300%"

They will make accounting tricks so your $20 is now $80 on the books.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:53 PM (a4flb)

261 That was the USS IOWA that rearranged the landscape in Lebanon, no? Could be wrong, often am.

They worked on trying to modernize the analog mechanical “computers” and tables used for the big guns, and decided they worked well enough, and left well enough alone.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (74/ii)

262 @magills_ 1h
Ladies, some advice for wrapping your husbands Xmas gifts. Put them in a new 5 gallon bucket from the hardware store.
3 reasons:

1. Time Saver
2. Inexpensive
3. No man has ever said “I have too many 5 gallon buckets.

It’s two gifts in one. You’re welcome.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (mlg/3)

263 What the heck does the Governor of Louisiana know about Greenland?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (pLSjm)

That the Cajun Navy could most likely sink it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

264 This is like saying no one should spend money on airpower because anything that can fly can be shot down.

Which would make bigger news, shooting down a one-seater F16 or sinking the Gerald R Ford and why?

How long did the country mourn when one of the Thunderbirds crashed?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:56 PM (a4flb)

265 What the heck does the Governor of Louisiana know about Greenland?
Posted by: Tom Servo

The birthplace of Fezzig?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 09:57 PM (mlg/3)

266 What the heck does the Governor of Louisiana know about Greenland?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (pLSjm)

I was wondering about that, and I came to the conclusion that the Gov of LA knows a lot about being a completely different type of legal code and governmental order integrating into the larger US common law system.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:57 PM (rbvCR)

267 >>What the heck does the Governor of Louisiana know about Greenland?

Kinda curious about that myself.

But the real issue isn't Greenland. It's the Arctic Ocean. For the first time Russia has sent every one of their icebreakers, and they have a lot more than we do, to the Arctic at the same time to clear the shipping lanes.

The arctic shipping lanes could be a game changer for international shipping and military and Greenland site right on the edge of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (viF8m)

268
Pykrete! We'll make them from pyrite!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (tgvbd)

269 I need whiskey.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 09:51 PM (QVmho)

I bet!
Did you say yes on the saber?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)

270 256 They seem to be able to board with just helicopters. I fail to see why one needs to bring a battleship (or cruiser) to a confrontation with a potential epic oil spill.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:44 PM (a4flb)

Helicopters don't loiter for days, and don't carry big tubes. Apparently during the Missouri's trip to Lebanon and adjacent area, the thing that really got everyone's attention was making giant craters with the main guns.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (rbvCR)

Landing Hot onto a ship is not an easy thing.... and the Helo you would need to use would only carry about half a boarding Team... which is why the Navy uses boats.

Much more controlled... and... as I can personally attest after having done this for a living while in the Navy... it also allows you the ability to RETREAT, because the Body Armor we used had inflatable life vests built in...

So if things go to shit? You go over the side and get picked up by the boat.

Also, if you do find contraband, you have to put aboard a prize crew large enough to control the crew... and who is knowledgeable enough to make sure the crew is not up to something.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 09:59 PM (mP0Kj)

271 arctic ocean is way overrated

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:59 PM (cx+NO)

272 Helicopters don't loiter for days, and don't carry big tubes. Apparently during the Missouri's trip to Lebanon and adjacent area, the thing that really got everyone's attention was making giant craters with the main guns.

Helicopters is literally what they are using in the Caribbean (not the Gulf of America) Right Now.

Actually, spotting a periscope from the deck of a Tanker is a bit more intimidating than a battleship on the horizon

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:59 PM (a4flb)

273 Anything that floats can be sunk, just admire the Iranian Navy†

† you will need a glass bottom boat to do so though.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (a4flb)

Brilliant.

This is like saying no one should spend money on airpower because anything that can fly can be shot down.
Posted by: derp patrol at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (qSgoZ)

****

Exactly. A F-35 does not look like a P-51. Why should a 21st century battleship look like the Missouri?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:00 PM (2WIwB)

274 >>> That was the USS IOWA that rearranged the landscape in Lebanon, no? Could be wrong, often am.

You are probably right, I just know it made really large craters where there used to be installations that were not behaving civilly and most likely never would have.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (rbvCR)

275

I bet!
Did you say yes on the saber?
Posted by: Diogenes

I 100% said hell yes. He let me handle it at the 2025 Army birthday dinner. Sweet friggen saber. Nice dude too.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (QVmho)

276 261 That was the USS IOWA that rearranged the landscape in Lebanon, no? Could be wrong, often am.

They worked on trying to modernize the analog mechanical “computers” and tables used for the big guns, and decided they worked well enough, and left well enough alone.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (74/ii)

The USS New Jersey was there in late 83... Part of the same MARG 2-83 as my ship, the USS Iwo Jima.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (mP0Kj)

277 i think half of cling wrap profits are people trying to cut it and it by the time you’re going to cover something it turns into a big wad of sticky plastic and then repeat that process until eventually you throw the entire roll away and invest in ZipLoc bags, tin foil, and Tupperware.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (6ydKt)

278 The arctic shipping lanes could be a game changer for international shipping and military and Greenland site right on the edge of it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (viF8m)

Canals. Dig a canal from Lake Superior to James Bay. Another canal from the mouth of the North Saskatchewan River on Hudson Bay to Lake Athabaska. Upgrade the channel of the Mackenzie River to handle ocean-going ships. Most of the land involved is pretty low-lying. You'd need some locks, for sure. Site nuclear power plants along the canals, use canal water for cooling, keeps the canal unfrozen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:04 PM (npFr7)

279 noob

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:05 PM (rbvCR)

Brown Custodian: I Warned Security About the Sketch Guy "Casing" the School Who Would Ultimately Shoot It Up

Is this something? I don't know. There are often dropped balls in cases like this. I don't know if this is just a normal dropped ball or an ideologically-dictated dropped ball.

I think it might the latter. After all, apparently Brown knew all about the homeless man illegally squatting in the basement of the building where the killer struck. (Yes, I know that homeless man turned out to be one of the few heroes in this story, but obviously Brown didn't know that when they chose to allow him to live in their basement.)

In yet another case of "authorities" dropping the ball, someone saw something, someone said something, and the "authorities" did nothing.

A Brown University custodian just dropped a bombshell by claiming he flagged the man who murdered two students to the authorities multiple times before the deadly shooting occurred.
Derek Lisi has worked at Brown University in Rhode Island for 15 years, and if he is telling the truth, the horrible and tragic shooting that cost the lives of two young students and injured multiple others could have been avoided. Lisi said in comments that The Boston Globe published that he saw a man walking through the hallways, looking into classrooms, and trying to avoid being seen by suddenly darting into a bathroom -- all weeks before the shooting. Lisi saw the suspicious man at least 10 times and notified the campus security at least twice, but it appears that nobody took the behavior seriously.
...
"I knew there was something off with him," Lisi recalled of the man whom he saw casing the university building and whom he later recognized in photos of the accused shooter. "He'd been casing that place for weeks."

Brown seems to believe that fake Social Justice "safety" is more important than the actual physical safety of the deluded marks paying $100,000 per year to be miseducated there.

They had already been questioned about their failure to warn the campus about the shooter, and then, later, told everyone that there was no further danger, despite having no idea if there was a continuing threat or not.

Brown University is facing questions over its security policies after its emergency sirens never sounded in response to Saturday's shooting, while taking nearly 20 minutes to send an alert out to students. The scrutiny comes after campus cops passed no-confidence votes against their police chief and questioned the school's emergency response capabilities.
Rodney Chatman, the university's director of public safety and emergency management, blamed the lack of sirens on the hectic nature of the crisis. He said police became aware of the incident when an officer saw students fleeing the scene.
...
From there, Brown issued and retracted a series of alerts. It sent one at 4:51 saying a suspect was in custody, then another 20 minutes later walking back that claim. A 5:27 alert warned that there was another shooting, but a 6:10 message said that was actually "unfounded."

As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations, which I assume are all funded by George Soros, sent a letter demanding that Brown disable its security cameras so that criminal leftist agitators, some in the employ of foreign governments or terrorist organizations, couldn't be photographed committing their crimes.

As originally reported in August 2025, a group of far-left human rights advocates sent a letter to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable the CCTV systems to protect "free expression and academic freedom across the country," because "the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions."
The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: "Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists' right to anonymity----a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation."
The letter from 'Fight For The Future' (August 2025) came after an earlier campaign by the same group seeking to stop the use of facial recognition cameras on college campuses.
The Brown University President and school officials have been giving ridiculous answers to questions about the 800 cameras on the campus and the fact that no current footage exists of the shooter walking around inside the campus or inside the buildings therein.

Brown refuses to say if they disabled the cameras or not. I think we all know this is an admission.

BREAKING - Brown University officials are now facing mass calls to step down after it was revealed that not only were CCTV cameras removed at the request of activist groups, but a university janitor saw and reported the killer stalking the area numerous times and they did nothing pic.twitter.com/61TLq1utHm
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) December 22, 2025

🚨 DISGRACEFUL: Brown University President Christina Paxson, smiling: �I don�t think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened.�

Just days later, the same shooter � Manuel Neves-Valente � murdered MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro. pic.twitter.com/cpshPXWwgW
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) December 19, 2025

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1 FOIST

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (WONhk)

2
FOIST
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Real cute...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (CWez5)

3
A dyke, a fag, and Senor Wences walk into a bar...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (CWez5)

4 Good lord in heaven, the President of Brown is an idiot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (XP28L)

5 What cameras?

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (Ia/+0)

6 Thirst!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (Kt19C)

7
Drat, foist with my own petard.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (w6EFb)

8 What can Brown do for you?

Eh. I am certain this joke has already been made numerous times on this venue, but I am tired and hungry, and am off to bake a tray of pizza rolls.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (0aYVJ)

9
Ace added that video clip on account of the boobs. Be honest.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (CWez5)

10 the homeless man illegally squatting in the basement of the building

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)

11 >>>Brown University officials . . . did nothing.

CYA. They did try CYA, poorly.

Get on the cart.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (dK+Kv)

12 Can you imagine thinking condescension is an appropriate PR tool?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (XP28L)

13 Sarah Guarnelli's got some righteous headlights.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (xNHSX)

14 what self respecting intellectual would pay the least attention to anything a minion or menial had to say?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (Cjt/F)

15 They can wait it out.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (pkeXY)

16 Can you imagine thinking condescension is an appropriate PR tool?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM

It's all wet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (jc0TO)

17 The Super Genius Homeless Guy and the janitor are the only heroes in this mess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (XP28L)

18 Everything about this is f'd up. And this idiot made 3 million dollars a year? Where did I go wrong?

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

19 They knew from the first shot that they were cooked. I am surprised they didn’t send out the university’s lawyer to answer questions

Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (8jVAy)

20 A PD composed of all Chief Wiggums clones.

Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (pDt9x)

21 Can you imagine thinking condescension is an appropriate PR tool?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (XP28L)

It worked before, you rubes.

Posted by: Your Betters at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (uQesX)

22 I have followed this and know everything! Well, except for where this weirdo was between 2017 and 2025. He returned to Portugal (where he knew MIT guy) after he dropped out of Brown after a few horror semesters of him whining about bad fish. He was in Portugal from 2003 to 2017 when he returned & got his green card from Barky. So, yes, we can blame Obungo.

It is unknown if he is ghey, ever had a girlfriend, his politics or religion. He did know the MIT professor her murdered and the reason for all of this. The MIT prof won a WH award in January of this year from Biden. In Feb the murder guy had the first of 3 visits to Boston to stake it out.

He rented a car in Boston in November and tooled around Brown some, in and out of the lecture hall that apparently had bad memories of something. Then barked like a dog and murdered innocent kids. Later went to Boston to murder the former Portugal classmate he was jealous of.

BECAUSE! He was one of those "I am the smartest in the room" ugly creatures. I have met two who have not (yet) resorted to murder of me or anyone else. So far. They do carry grudges for 20+ years. I know this personally by a narcissist I have not spoken to since 2007.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (WONhk)

23
I'd like to talk about meat.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (CWez5)

24 18 Everything about this is f'd up. And this idiot made 3 million dollars a year? Where did I go wrong?
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

You fucked up! You trusted us!

Posted by: People who told you smarts and hard work garner success at December 22, 2025 06:53 PM (TbWk/)

25 “Activist’s right to anonymity?” WTF is that bullshit? And how would it apply to foreigners?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (6Bc88)

26 Lemme go check. I guess I could have a homeless bum in my basement, too.

Posted by: Watch On The Rhine at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (oftw2)

27 Is it surprising that the head of the Board of Trustees is Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, the bank that rushed to volunteer customer location data to the Fibbies after Jan 6 despite never receiving a warrant? BofA still has its DEI flag waving proudly, btw.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (XP28L)

28 I mean, I'm not particularly dumb. How come I don't make 3 million dollars a year? Maybe I'm dumber than I thought.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

29 "and school officials have been giving ridiculous answers to questions about the 800 cameras..."

That's why they call it brown...

Posted by: Boswell at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (BGfwC)

30 First Brown University needed the willpower to actually protect its students instead of chasing the mob.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD)

31 Lemme go check. I guess I could have a homeless bum in my basement, too.
Posted by: Watch On The Rhine at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM

Only if you are nose blind.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (jc0TO)

32 I don't wanna go down to the basement.

(There's something down there).

Posted by: Joey Ramone at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)

33 The US Attorney in Boston did a great job in her press conference. For one thing she didn't try to turn it into a game show by having a half dozen speakers. She just stated facts and answered questions with no BS.

Complete opposite of the clown car crowd at Brown.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (viF8m)

34
I have followed this and know everything!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Any Online presence?

Shirley his phone/PC has his Internet history.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (CWez5)

35 I'd like to talk about meat.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (CWez5)

Sweater meat?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (dK+Kv)

36 The gunman is directly under the earth's sun...now!

- Chief Piggum

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (xNHSX)

37

I'm trying to think of words to describe the Brown U administration.

Pieces of shit, scum?

You all are more creative with words than me.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (3ek7K)

38 These are people so totally wrapped in their bubble that they can’t conceive of the idea that anything could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (trsuh)

39 23
I'd like to talk about meat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (CWez5

Yours, or someone else’s?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (6Bc88)

40 You know who else dropped a ball?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (0sNs1)

41 Soothsayer is Arby's?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (2GVsD)

42 The cameras were not turned off for free speech. They were turned off to allow First degree murder.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (qFwJc)

43 Staff and kids complained of no security to the building. At one time there were 1200 cameras on campus. At the time of the murders there were 4 operational to the lazy campus police, who ignored complaints by the homeless guy and others (resident basement living homeless guy, not the janitor).So, in a 71k/yr tuition and $8billion endowment university, in 2025, there was no ID card or pass code to the door of the murder building that he knew from recently and decades ago. Those kids were collateral damage.

If not for the homeless guy and RING residential cameras they'd have NOTHING. Homeless guy ID'd the rental car and Alamo had film.

The day before the liberal president woman said there were no cameras in the lecture hall due to it "being in the older part of the bldg and opening right out into a residental area." Ok! She's a nitwit who had a nervous tic for most of the news conference.

I also enjoyed the Governor jumping in to save the day as the press were brutal.

He came to Boston to kill the guy he competed with in Portugal and won awards at MIT. The Brown kids were simply anger/hatred at Brown. I don't know why he barked like a dog.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (WONhk)

44 Sue the damn university.

The discovery alone will make it worthwhile. Put these cretins under oath and under pressure.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (RRCAT)

45
Did MEAT prices drop drastically?

Rib Eye steaks at my local supermarket are at, like, 2018 prices, this week. $8.99/lb for bone-in rib eyes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (CWez5)

46 2
FOIST
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Real cute...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (CWez5)

It was for you, my love.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (WONhk)

47 You know who else dropped a ball?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (0sNs1)

Times Square?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (uQesX)

48 I would bet they never own up to having any video of the murderer

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (Ia/+0)

49 9 Ace added that video clip on account of the boobs. Be honest.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (CWez5)

Maybe that's why I'm strangely attracted to Sara there.
It's not the semi-bags under her eyes.
Or that she's almost doing the bird hands thing.
Her voice is kinda nasally.

It's gotta be the boobs.
And her eyes, maybe.

---
I wonder how long Derek the Custodian is going to have a job at Brown. His actions of telling the truth and being ignored seem excommunicateable.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (6ydKt)

50 "I'm trying to think of words to describe the Brown U administration."

"Retards" is coming back into vouge.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (vFG9F)

51 But why Ella Cook?

He did not know her.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)

52
Bone-in Rib Eye Roast also $8.99/lb.

This is Boston suburbs.

I'm going to attempt Prime Rib via Instant Pot.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (CWez5)

53 The Critical Drinker just described the new Avatar movie as a $400m screen saver.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (MoRvC)

54 A PD composed of all Chief Wiggums clones.
Posted by: tubal

No...sorry, you have the wrong number, this is 9-1-2.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (fryM6)

55 32 I don't wanna go down to the basement.

(There's something down there).

Posted by: Joey Ramone at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)

It's the KKK, about to take your girl away.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (6ydKt)

56 >>Bone-in Rib Eye Roast also $8.99/lb.

Roast of what?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:01 PM (viF8m)

57 "Roast of what?
Posted by: JackStraw"

May Contain Penguin

Posted by: The fine print at December 22, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

58
Roast of what?
Posted by: JackStraw

I dunno.

Who are you, Chef Boyardee?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (CWez5)

59 #55 It's the KKK, about to take your girl away.

They're Gonna Kill That Girl

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (xNHSX)

60 Bone-in Rib Eye Roast also $8.99/lb.

Roast of what?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:01 PM

Hobo?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (0N4FZ)

61
How many schools have deactivated their security cameras?

Anyone who has kids in college needs to investigate that possibility.

Of course they will probably lie.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (3ek7K)

62 Not to worry, the ham and eggers will bury this one into the deep state for much later, to flank the Orangeman bad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (nljXp)

63 52
Bone-in Rib Eye Roast also $8.99/lb.

This is Boston suburbs.

I'm going to attempt Prime Rib via Instant Pot.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (CWez5)

reverse sear.... 225 for a few hours, depending on how large the rib roast is, internal temp 125... then increase temp to 450 for a few minutes to sear a nice crust on it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (mP0Kj)

64 Food Lion has a sale this time of year. Bone-in, USDA Choice Rib roast (of beef). I got one last year and was disappointed with all the fat.

The one I got this is is really nice.

$8.99 / lb.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (qFwJc)

65 Credentialed Cretins - aptly covers the Brown U admin in copious quantities of bovine fecal matter

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (2GVsD)

66 I just plunked down significantly more for my Christmas roast. I haven't seen $8.99/pound for rib roast in a long time.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (viF8m)

67 45
Did MEAT prices drop drastically?

Rib Eye steaks at my local supermarket are at, like, 2018 prices, this week. $8.99/lb for bone-in rib eyes.

Posted by: Soothsayer

It's become tradition to serve standing rib at Christmas/ New Years. So the supermarkets get you in the store with a sale, so you will buy $100 worth of potato chips. A loss leader like corned beef for St. Pats and .29 turkeys at Thanksgiving. I paid $7.99 for standing rib today at Food Lion, an 8 pounder.

Posted by: Savvy Consumer at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (oftw2)

68
Shirley his phone/PC has his Internet history.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (CWez5)

The Feds found him but he was using an European SIM card and hard to track. Kept changing car tags, as well.

He was super ugly and weird but not totally stupid, like your basic insane schizo narcissist. He planned this out all year. Rented the NH storage unit weeks ago.

I truly believe the only person he intended to kill was the MIT professor. But he was seething about his failure at Brown, when they should have known he was the smartest person alive.

I know the conservative and pretty girl from Birmingham, Alabama was killed. But I honestly don't think he knew she was one of the rare pretty and conservative girls on campus. IF he turns out to be ghey or a new trans, that may lead to thinking he hated girls. Otherwise how many times she was shot is rumor from what I can tell.

Brown is fixin' to be sued off the planet. The $3million dollar prez is going to be fired along with the useless security people. I know it and they know it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (WONhk)

69 There's no stoppin' the cretins from hoppin...

Posted by: You wanna an earworm? at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (jibVG)

70 May the red hot poker of discovery be shoved up the Brown administrator's asses.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (sDNVV)

71 >>> You know who else dropped a ball?

Posted by: Duncanthrax

>Kelce, Mahomo and the Chiefs?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (nljXp)

72
hahaha, yeah, package says: "Large End Bone In Rib Roast"

I asked the butcher at the Supermarket, "Can I make prime rib with this?"

He just looked at me like it was stupid. Then he said, "Yes."

Then he explained it's a "four rib roast" and said he's probably going to buy the two-rib roast for he & his wife.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:06 PM (CWez5)

73 Lisi is not long for that job.
He's not a mathematical savant either...
He will be black balled. Homeless. Frozen on the sidewalk by spring...

Posted by: torabora at December 22, 2025 07:06 PM (w6sjj)

74
I just plunked down significantly more for my Christmas roast. I haven't seen $8.99/pound for rib roast in a long time.
Posted by: JackStraw

I went to my local Hannafords.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (CWez5)

75 If the custodian had only said he suspected the guy was some whacked-out MAGA type, something might have been done...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

76 May the red hot poker of discovery be shoved up the Brown administrator's asses.
Posted by: Ben Had

3/4" rebar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (N/gmR)

77
The "angus" version at Hannafords were $9.99/lb.

But I think "angus" is a scam.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (CWez5)

78 reverse sear.... 225 for a few hours, depending on how large the rib roast is, internal temp 125... then increase temp to 450 for a few minutes to sear a nice crust on it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (mP0Kj)

My favorite screen chef recommends taking it out the oven and letting it rest a half hour or more before putting it back in for the sear (redistributes the juices or some such).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (6ydKt)

79 Have you or your family lost a loved one in a violent school shooting due to the incompetence of the leftist homosexual administrators in charge of protecting them and their lives?

Well, call me! I want to get you money!

Posted by: Alexander Shunnarah, Billboard King And Ambulamps Chaser at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (R/m4+)

80
“Activist’s right to anonymity?” WTF is that bullshit? And how would it apply to foreigners?
Posted by: tcn in AK

They should have the same (non-existent) right to anonymity us normies had during covid when we tried to avoid the damned jab.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 07:09 PM (QVmho)

81 Lisi saw the suspicious man at least 10 times and notified the campus security at least twice, but it appears that nobody took the behavior seriously.

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"Noticing is racist ... and acting upon such racist information is fascist, h8rs!"

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:09 PM (21Usy)

82 77
The "angus" version at Hannafords were $9.99/lb.

But I think "angus" is a scam.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (CWez5)

One year the light went out on one of the letters of the local Black Angus sign...it read, "Stuart Anderson's Black Anus"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

83 Bone In Meat May Contain STDs

Posted by: The fine print at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)

84 One year the light went out on one of the letters of the local Black Angus sign...it read, "Stuart Anderson's Black Anus"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

Bad memories...

Posted by: Josh Brolin at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (jibVG)

85 77
The "angus" version at Hannafords were $9.99/lb.

But I think "angus" is a scam.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (CWez5)

Next you'll say most Wagyu in stores is not the real deal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:11 PM (ynpvh)

86 75 If the custodian had only said he suspected the guy was some whacked-out MAGA type, something might have been done...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

If he'd worn a red hat they'd have busted him before he got past the front gate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 07:11 PM (6ydKt)

87 73 Lisi is not long for that job.
He's not a mathematical savant either...
He will be black balled. Homeless. Frozen on the sidewalk by spring...
Posted by: torabora at December 22, 2025 07:06 PM (w6sjj)
Who did he think he was, and Olympic Security Officer?

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 07:11 PM (LHPAg)

88 83 Bone In Meat May Contain STDs

Posted by: The fine print at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)

But enough about Bill Clinton...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (ynpvh)

89 One year the light went out on one of the letters of the local Black Angus sign...it read, "Stuart Anderson's Black Anus"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

Barky and Spartacus just did the meerkat look.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (0aYVJ)

90 All the administrators will not only be fired but imprisoned for many years.

Nah j/k. Nothing will happen to any of them of course.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (UJWr0)

91 Some people did(n't do) something.

Posted by: pookysgirl, quoting America's sweetheart at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (Wt5PA)

92 Leftists in power always lead to death.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (snZF9)

93 re: The Ramones, I was last week years old when I realized they gave a lyrical shout-out to their Queens homegirls The Shangri-Las. And I know the Shangs' song well, from their own version and The New York Dolls' gender-reversed cover. Don't know how I never made the connection:

"When I see him in the street
My heart takes a leap and skips a beat."

The Shangri-Las "Give Him a Great Big Kiss"

"When I saw her walking down the street
My heart stood still and skipped a beat."

The Ramones "You're Gonna Kill That Girl"

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (xNHSX)

94 Gettin' tired of this shit

@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (mlg/3)

95 🚨 DISGRACEFUL: Brown University President Christina Paxson, smiling: “I don’t think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened.”

Just days later, the same shooter — Manuel Neves-Valente — murdered MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro.

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Old & Busted: "You will be made to care."
New Hotness: "You will be made to die."

"All within the Death Cult Party, nothing outside the Death Cult Party, nothing against the Death Cult Party."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (21Usy)

96 I see that there is a custodian looking for a job.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 07:13 PM (/lPRQ)

97 'As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations...'

It'd be a real shame if someone found the addresses of these organizations and you know, burned them to the ground.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:13 PM (fd80v)

98 It looks like the canadian 60 minutes outlet "Global TV" aired Sharyn's propaganda unedited online. According to Tater.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (3uBP9)

99
Lol Dr. Claw

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (3ek7K)

100 94 Gettin' tired of this shit

@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (mlg/3)

Judge Boasberg was deeply involved in setting up Trump. Judge Boasberg should be tied to a glacier in Antarctica for the Penguins to have fun with.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

101 I like that Brown gives its worthless graduates free room and board in the basements of its academic buildings. That's very generous.

They keep referring to this guy as a custodian. Were they using him as a custodian in exchange for room and board? In a different time that might be considered charitable but now it's just straight up slavery, right? Especially since he's a person of color? Multimillion dollar salary white President of Brown, indentured servant POC custodial staff of Brown.

Sounds about right.

Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (NlEaG)

102 You don't need due process for enemy aliens.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (vFG9F)

103 97 'As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations...'

It'd be a real shame if someone found the addresses of these organizations and you know, burned them to the ground.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:13 PM (fd80v)

They're all lefts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (ynpvh)

104 There is something still off about this. They are way too protective and paranoid and secretive on this one (the brown staff.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

105 Judge Boasberg was deeply involved in setting up Trump. Judge Boasberg should be tied to a glacier in Antarctica for the Penguins to have fun with.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

Use gutter spikes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (snZF9)

106 That's my president!

White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement

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Take your funny hats and cram them where the sun don't shine!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (L/fGl)

107 I'd like to talk about meat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM

Prime rib is typically cut from the 6th to the 12th ribs of the cow, and it can be divided into two main sections: the small end (also known as the first cut or loin end) and the large end (often referred to as the second cut or chuck end). Each end has its own set of characteristics that can significantly impact the dining experience.

The small end, coming from the rear section of the rib, is leaner and more tender. It is characterized by a more uniform shape and a finer texture, making it easier to slice into thin, even pieces. This end is often preferred by those who like their prime rib on the leaner side, with less fat and connective tissue. The small end is also known for its milder flavor, which some find more appealing, especially when looking for a prime rib that will absorb the flavors of seasonings and sauces well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

108 The large end, cut from the front section of the rib, is fattier and has a more marbled appearance. This increased marbling contributes to a more robust flavor and a tender, fall-apart texture when cooked properly. The large end is often the choice of those who prefer a heartier, more traditional prime rib experience, with the fat adding unctuousness and flavor to each bite.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

109 51 But why Ella Cook?

He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)

2 killed and 11 wounded or something like that.

It was a study group for finals in economics, not a class. He had physics classes in that room and maybe someone messed with him there. He was familiar with that building and lecture hall. I know lecture halls like this can hold 100, as I have been one of the few females in them (and no one asked me out in chemistry and physics, which was a total bummer. No I did not have BO. Yes I looked really good, so a mystery).

It sounds like half of the kids there (I think 28?) were shot with 40 rounds from a pistol. Maybe it's pistole in Portuguese?

Regardless, she got initial attention, being both pretty and president of the very rare conservative group. The killing of the MIT Portuguese professor sort of points to him (to me, time will tell) as the main reason for this guy going berserk.

If he turns out to be gay or trans, maybe he hated women and she stood out. I mean, it's Brown. I'd stand out as well even being as old as dirt.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (WONhk)

110 106 That's my president!

White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement

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Take your funny hats and cram them where the sun don't shine!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (L/fGl)

I'm waiting for unfettered immigration to the Vatican.
C'mon guys, lead by example! Take in some of those Muzzies you tell us are good people!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (ynpvh)

111
But I think "angus" is a scam.
Posted by: Soothsayer

It's a long way to the top.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (pkeXY)

112 I'm hankerin' for a mastodon roast but they only come available every several thousand years and you have to be at the glacier when it melts.

Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (UslNH)

113 There is something still off about this. They are way too protective and paranoid and secretive on this one (the brown staff.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

There has been a rumor that Brown was hiding or concealing students with visa overstays or without valid visas, which could get their funding yanked.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (rbvCR)

114 Aetius, something like the shooter was set up to take the fall?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (sDNVV)

115 As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations...

The first human right is not to have to belong to any "organization".

Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (R/m4+)

116 So is conventional wisdom leaning toward the assumption that Ella Cook was random victim?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (Dv3i1)

117 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (WONhk)

You were to smaaht for them and they were intimidated? I liked smart; my wife was.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (ynpvh)

118 I got mine with extra unctuousness.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (viF8m)

119
Jim,

Wish in one hand, shit in the other hand.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (3ek7K)

120 As far as I'm concerned, you can give Rhode Island right back to the Indians, no questions asked.

Posted by: Paco at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (2L+MU)

121 115 As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations...

The first human right is not to have to belong to any "organization".

Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (R/m4+)

Sovereign Citizen?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (ynpvh)

122
I'm impressed, Duncanthrax.

You know more about meats than most people.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (CWez5)

123
Great episode of King Of The Hill when Bobby joins the meat team, or whatever it's called.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:20 PM (CWez5)

124 Frist you chum the water to attract sharks, then Boasburg needs to be put a metal cage and dipped in the ocean.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 07:20 PM (2GVsD)

125 In yet another case of "authorities" dropping the ball, someone saw something, someone said something, and the "authorities" did nothing.
====

The "authorities" are complicit.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (8o16y)

126 104 There is something still off about this. They are way too protective and paranoid and secretive on this one (the brown staff.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

Because hellfire is fixin' to rain down on them for lack of security, lack of paying attention to warnings, and turning off cameras. As well as not having cameras in this lecture hall and a door that opened directly to a residential neighborhood.

It may wait til after the holidays, as finals and classes were cancelled. Parents are paying attention and contacting attorneys. Or I would be raising all sorts of hell if my kid was there and unprotected on this DEI campus.

The chief of campus security was fired from either one or two other university jobs for being a dummy. That did not stop Brown from hiring his worthless self.

I saw the press conference two days. The one prior to the storage unit suicide they were cocky. The one of the day they found nitwit dead, they were not doing well at all. I mean, the liberal woman was having all but Tourette's on the sidelines. Her eye was twitching like mad. I note weird stuff, mate.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (WONhk)

127 BREAKING - Brown University officials are now facing mass calls to step down

A simple 'step down' would indeed do it, if they felt shame, but these are administrators.

Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (rJjpq)

128
As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations...

51 intelligence experts...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (pkeXY)

129
Is Duncan a "funny man?"

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (3ek7K)

130 She is right. The cameras can't do anything, in and of themselves. She is admitting that campus security is a totally incompetent and ineffective entity, no matter what the security infrastructure situation is.

Posted by: goatexchange at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (hyS0X)

131 103
'They're all lefts...'

You mean everyone in the story? Yeah. I know.

But something about these Antifa front organizations pressuring anybody and everybody just so they can be allowed to terrorize just set my teeth on edge. I really want to watch them pay a price.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (fd80v)

132 106 That's my president!

White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement

-
Take your funny hats and cram them where the sun don't shine!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (L/fGl)

On Christmas Eve, ICE should cross the frozen Delaware River in the night, in open rowboats, to sneak up upon violent illegal criminals reposing at their homes to capture and deport them.

It's the American Way!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (wVcYX)

133
The premier of New South Wales, responding to those calling for free speech, says that "we don't have the same freedom of speech laws they have in the U.S, and the reason for that is we want to hold together a multicultural community":
https://is.gd/S9xBz5

So, there you go, an admission that freedom and multiculturalism are not compatible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (w6EFb)

134 All the female engineering students I talked to at the Uni were married, had a boyfriend, or weren't looking...at least that's what they told me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

135 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:23 PM (cYBz/)

136 106

'White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement'

Screw them. I want an all year pause in Catholic bishops' sedition attempts.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)

137 What can Brown do for you?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (AtFJ+)

138 Frist you chum the water to attract sharks, then Boasburg needs to be put a metal cage and dipped in the ocean.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 07:20 PM (2GVsD)

Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.

Posted by: Quint (1975) at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (wVcYX)

139 Screw them. I want an all year pause in Catholic bishops' sedition attempts.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)

I'd settle for them just to stop diddling altar boys.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (AtFJ+)

140 Ooh, I do love me some 'large end'...

Posted by: Sweet Dick Honeycum at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (vbdXu)

141 Sharks won't eat lawyers. Professional courtesy.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

142 139 Screw them. I want an all year pause in Catholic bishops' sedition attempts.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)

I'd settle for them just to stop diddling altar boys.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (AtFJ+)

I didn't see Diddled Altar Boys front for Pederast Priests at the Vatican in '05...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (ynpvh)

143 117 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (WONhk)

You were to smaaht for them and they were intimidated? I liked smart; my wife was.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (ynpvh)

I now like to tell myself this. I was not happy about it at age 20yrs, that was for sure. Things picked up when I started nursing school at the hospital where I met my guy.

I had a gang of friends who were male and I should have asked them at the time. I was too busy living, studying, partying and generally spaced out to fret about it long. I did think it odd. The TA's did pay attention to me. I was in my bubble or had an aura that my parents prayed for to keep me safe from serial killers and those with bad intent.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (WONhk)

144 There's a terrible stomach flu going around. I had to stop eating around Thursday evening. Everything shot through me like a waterpark slide. Cramps and nausea. Today was better and the first meal I had since then. Think of the hydrodynamic process they use to extract oil from tar sands, but instead your bowels. I lost 11 lbs in 3 days. And it really hit me at night, 10pm-10am and went without sleep since Wednesday. I'm at the barely able to walk and do house work for more than 30 min energy level. Stomach is still messed up but I started taking probiotics. I'm hoping I'll get to sleep tonight. I'm on the mend now. Thank the Lord!

So be on the watch for this. Nasty stuff.

Posted by: banana Dream - status of my bowels at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (3uBP9)

145 You know more about meats than most people.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM

Not all meats, but some. And I'm always learning; every brisket teaches something.

Pro Tip: The brisket from the left side of the cow is more tender than the one from the right.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

146 The best beef you will ever have will come from a Jersey steer.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (sDNVV)

147 111 But I think "angus" is a scam.
Posted by: Soothsayer

It's a long way to the top.

you know where else it's also a long way to?

Posted by: tipperary at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (v3pYe)

148 @kyledcheney
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

If Trump were 1% the tyrant that Boasberg frames him to be Boasberg knows he would be disappeared long ago -> the frame-up continues.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (/lPRQ)

149 There is something still off about this. They are way too protective and paranoid and secretive on this one (the brown staff.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

There has been a rumor that Brown was hiding or concealing students with visa overstays or without valid visas, which could get their funding yanked.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (rbvCR)

What happened to the thing about one of the students being targeted because she was Jewish?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (AtFJ+)

150 >>>As far as I'm concerned, you can give Rhode Island right back to the Indians, no questions asked.

Posted by: Paco

>Yes, give that land back to the Cherokee. Pocahontas Warren can rule it with an iron-hand Communist fist.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (nljXp)

151 "So be on the watch for this. Nasty stuff.
Posted by: banana Dream"

*puts tape over USB ports and backs away*

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

152 Moar

@libsoftiktok 45m
BREAKING: The University of Oklahoma announced that it has ruled in FAVOR of the student who was discriminated against for quoting the Bible in an assignment to justify traditional gender roles.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (mlg/3)

153 The Atlantic Shark Institute is a few miles from me. They track sharks all over but focus a lot on Rhode Island waters.

Thy put out a claim the other day that we are going to have a huge population growth in Great Whites around here. Let the games begin.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (viF8m)

154 The chief of campus security was fired from either one or two other university jobs for being a dummy. That did not stop Brown from hiring his worthless self.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I find this surprising.

Not that Brown would hire an ignoramus as chief of security, but that they would deign to hire a male for that position.

Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (nhCoE)

155 116 So is conventional wisdom leaning toward the assumption that Ella Cook was random victim?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (Dv3i1)

117 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (WONhk)

This is what I think now. It could change. The MIT was his main guy he wanted murdered. I wonder if he barked at him as well?

I need to figure out if MIT professor was married or ghey. That might be a clue.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (WONhk)

156 Screw them. I want an all year pause in Catholic bishops' sedition attempts.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Amen to that. Our Bishop posted an article in our diocesan newspaper strewn with all the bullshit about The Holy Family being immigrants, etc.

What a load.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)

157 Well, I'm off for a bit...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (ynpvh)

158 There's a terrible stomach flu going around.

Posted by: banana Dream - status of my bowels at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (3uBP9)

Be well. I have heard of such illness, locally. Fortunately, we've only had more mild bugs in our house.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (dK+Kv)

159
Not that Brown would hire an ignoramus as chief of security, but that they would deign to hire a male for that position.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (nhCoE)

He's black, does that count?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (WONhk)

160 152
'The University of Oklahoma announced that it has ruled in FAVOR of the student...'

That's damn big of them to tolerate someone else's first amendment rights.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (fd80v)

161 How can a "university" be so stupid? I hope they get sued enough till it hurts. But I doubt they they really care, well they might care about the money.

Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (G1OIb)

162 Clown judge Bonerburger clarification:
He is ordering due process rights for people no longer under the jurisdiction of the United States.

That is, he's ordering the Legislature to fund and the Executive to set up, an auxiliary courtroom for the Judiciary to use in Salvador.
Where then, the Executive is ordered to abduct these persons from the legal custody of Salvador and present them to the court--under threat of war by the United States against Salvador.

A single, unelected man, has the power to bend the entire government to his whims.

But Trump is the dictator ....

It's hilarious, (if it wasn't so deadly) watching the entire Judiciary sit by and let this dumb bitch shit all over their reputations.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (HXT0k)

163 "So be on the watch for this. Nasty stuff.
Posted by: banana Dream"

*puts tape over USB ports and backs away*

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

*proffers hot iron*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:31 PM (dK+Kv)

164
Oddly enough, one of the Rib Eye steaks I bought today had a sticker on it "End Cut."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:31 PM (CWez5)

165 brown gets to do whatever somebody need to teach the students caveat emptor, and that includes the ideology you subscribe to

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:31 PM (9+gVx)

166 109 51 But why Ella Cook?

He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)

Because this is a spiritual war, not just a civil or social one, and this is one those instances where stan shows us his teeth and laughs in our faces openly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (trsuh)

167 JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

What additional process are Alien Enemies due? A month in Greenland? A trip home seems more than generous.

Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (1zcQ9)

168 156
'Our Bishop posted an article in our diocesan newspaper strewn with all the bullshit about The Holy Family being immigrants, etc.'

I feel for you having to put up with that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:33 PM (fd80v)

169 Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:33 PM (pkeXY)

170 BREAKING - Brown University officials are now facing mass calls to step down

—

Narrator: they won’t.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 07:34 PM (UJWr0)

171 Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:33 PM (pkeXY)

I kinda like their music.

Posted by: Three Dog Night at December 22, 2025 07:34 PM (wVcYX)

172 Gettin' tired of this shit

@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (mlg/3)

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That assclown needs to be disappeared a la Jimmy Hoffa -- or at least "discovered" in bed with a live boy and a dead girl ... pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (21Usy)

173 How can we keep our coffers filled if you keep deporting our sheep?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (sDNVV)

174 Amen to that. Our Bishop posted an article in our diocesan newspaper strewn with all the bullshit about The Holy Family being immigrants, etc.

What a load.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)

Among all the other troubles of this world, the scourge of credentialism is one of the worst.

Bishops, perfessers, lawyers, cops, judges... all the self-anointed people who lord over the rest of us, because their fruity little guilds tell them they should.

Pikes... heads. Some assembly required.

Well, some disassembly first.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (AtFJ+)

175 Just going back to the Odyssey thread. There was some kind of consensus with some people that this movie would not have supernatural elements. Watch it on a full screen, there is this giant homunculus entering a cave at some point and some sort of entity raised from a grave later in the trailer. I'm still not sold on this movie though, not sure why Nolan felt obligated to cast "Elliot" Paige.

Posted by: MaxPower at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (q+LBI)

176 HAHAHAH!!
"Man Driving Electric Car Blasting Nicki Minaj Clearly Right-Wing"

https://tinyurl.com/mr3anskn

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

177 Why doesnt anyone ever ask why are you smiling and mugging for the cameras?

Is this a clown show? Does tragedy amuse you?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 22, 2025 07:36 PM (wBaIH)

178 The biggest threat I had as an undergraduate was from Lyndon Larouche.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:36 PM (8o16y)

179 Tara Palmeri
@tarapalmeri
What will leave the bigger stain on their legacy: the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?

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Ooooooo! I know! I know! [waves hand]

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (L/fGl)

180
Our Bishop posted an article in our diocesan newspaper strewn with all the bullshit about The Holy Family being immigrants, etc.

Posted by: Tonypete

They do this gaslighting bullshit every year.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (CWez5)

181 All the female engineering students I talked to at the Uni were married, had a boyfriend, or weren't looking...at least that's what they told me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I knew one who told me, in so many words, that she was only there to get her M.R.S. degree.

And all of them that I knew were either engaged or married by graduation.

Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (nhCoE)

182 Brown just put the head of public safety on leave.

Always making the black guy a scapegoat.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (viF8m)

183 That assclown needs to be disappeared a la Jimmy Hoffa -- or at least "discovered" in bed with a live boy and a dead girl ... pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It

That bed thing?
Credible!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (/lPRQ)

184 BREAKING - Brown University officials are now facing mass calls to step down

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The only thing that can save Brown now is ... can you say "President?" ... Claudine "DEI Plagiarist Galore and Anti-Semite on Steroids" Gay.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (21Usy)

185
Tara Palmeri
@tarapalmeri
What will leave the bigger stain on their legacy: the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?

Oh this fucking dunce, again?

She is one of the biggest lolcows on the Internet. A fake "influencer" who beclowns herself on the daily.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (CWez5)

186
Geez, now there will be race riots.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)

187 Wait why are they doing that? Didn't they just spend an entire press conference Perkins each other off and saying what great people they were?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (zZu0s)

188 I'm still not sold on this movie though, not sure why Nolan felt obligated to cast "Elliot" Paige.
Posted by: MaxPower at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (q+LBI)
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If Nolan wants this movie to even be considered for an Oscar, he has to meet the Hollywood diversity requirements.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (ESVrU)

189 How can a "university" be so stupid? I hope they get sued enough till it hurts. But I doubt they they really care, well they might care about the money.
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (G1OIb)

As I understand it, it takes a Faculty Senate and assorted Deans, Provosts, Chancellors, Directors, and Department Heads working in concert to plumb the depths of stupid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (wVcYX)

190 166 109 51 But why Ella Cook?

He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)

Two possibilities: A. He wasn't the shooter, and 2. Whoever set him loose did know her.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (AtFJ+)

191 All the female engineering students I talked to at the Uni were married, had a boyfriend, or weren't looking...at least that's what they told me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I knew one who told me, in so many words, that she was only there to get her M.R.S. degree.

And all of them that I knew were either engaged or married by graduation.

Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (nhCoE)

There was one who made no bones about want to sleep her way to a job and promotion, whereas the brighter ones were lesbo, taken, or too driven to bother with dudes at the time.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (dK+Kv)

192 Tonypete didn't the Holy Family come from Nazareth to Bethlehem? How is that allegorical to illegal immigration?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (8o16y)

193 The only thing that can save Brown now is ... can you say "President?" ... Claudine "DEI Plagiarist Galore and Anti-Semite on Steroids" Gay.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (21Usy)

I hear Larry Summers is looking for a job.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (AtFJ+)

194 The only thing that can save Brown now is ... can you say "President?" ... Claudine "DEI Plagiarist Galore and Anti-Semite on Steroids" Gay.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (21Usy)

I hear Larry Summers is looking for a job.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (AtFJ+)

195 Just gonna place this out there...

https://meatartisan.com/

Your welcome.

Posted by: Meathead at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (R/m4+)

196 But why Ella Cook?

He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)

Two possibilities: A. He wasn't the shooter, and 2. Whoever set him loose did know her.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (AtFJ+)

3. Rando
4. Lookalike spurned him, so she drew the misplaced ire.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (dK+Kv)

197 Tonypete didn't the Holy Family come from Nazareth to Bethlehem? How is that allegorical to illegal immigration?
Posted by: San

Indeed, were ordered there by the Romans to be counted for the census.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Htf7a)

198 Brown just put the head of public safety on leave.

Always making the black guy a scapegoat.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (viF8m)

*Golly!*

Posted by: First Jive Dude at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (wVcYX)

199 Sure the staff is all Diversity hire, who needs to have any job experience?

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

200 Brown is what it is because that's what the Board wants.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)

201 Brown just put the head of public safety on leave.

What difference does it make?

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)

202 So is conventional wisdom leaning toward the assumption that Ella Cook was random victim?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (Dv3i1)

If he was hanging about campus he could have overheard chatter about the evil right wing girl from students or administrators and decided to take action for it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (8avO+)

203 179
' the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?'

From what I've seen our targeting of drug boats has been well and correctly guided.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (fd80v)

204 Nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (8o16y)

205 3. Rando
4. Lookalike spurned him, so she drew the misplaced ire.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Yeah, I'm just spitballing. Tossing it out there, as it were.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (AtFJ+)

206 Brown just put the head of public safety on leave.

What difference does it make?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)

if you call your police "public safety" you are sick in the head. That name has been expired since the French Revolution.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (8avO+)

207 If Nolan wants this movie to even be considered for an Oscar, he has to meet the Hollywood diversity requirements.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (ESVrU)

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Maybe somebody can start a viral hashtag:

#OscarsSoTrans

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (21Usy)

208 Brown just put the head of public safety on leave.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (viF8m)

What about the rest of him?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

209 Tonypete didn't the Holy Family come from Nazareth to Bethlehem? How is that allegorical to illegal immigration?
Posted by: San
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Indeed, were ordered there by the Romans to be counted for the census.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Htf7a)

Go to your home city to be counted for a census. Hmm. Has potential.

Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (gKDq2)

210 Tonypete didn't the Holy Family come from Nazareth to Bethlehem? How is that allegorical to illegal immigration?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (8o16y)

They later fled to Egypt to escape Herod. However, most of the idiots don't even know that much.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)

211 Brown is what it is because that's what the Board wants.

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)

POSIWID. Purpose Of System Is What It Does.

Graft, DEI, and demonization of whitey, males, Christians, Jews.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (dK+Kv)

212
Lmao Count

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)

213 Tonypete didn't the Holy Family come from Nazareth to Bethlehem? How is that allegorical to illegal immigration?
Posted by: San

Indeed, were ordered there by the Romans to be counted for the census.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Htf7a)

The tribes went to their ancestral 'capitol' to be counted and Joseph was of the house of David so he went to Bethlehem.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (8avO+)

214 The 500F degree method works very good for a standing rib roast. I used it the past two Christmases and it came out perfect each time. Actually the best prime rib we've ever had.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (Vh9CX)

215 190
'But why Ella Cook?

He did not know her.

Two possibilities: A. He wasn't the shooter, and 2. Whoever set him loose did know her.'

Did anyone get ahold of this guy's social media history?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (fd80v)

216 Yeah, I'm just spitballing. Tossing it out there, as it were.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (AtFJ+)

Ah, OK. I misread that as ONLY two possibilities.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:46 PM (dK+Kv)

217 Because this is a spiritual war, not just a civil or social one, and this is one those instances where stan shows us his teeth and laughs in our faces openly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (trsuh)
This is rated 100% correct.

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (LHPAg)

218 Tara Palmeri
@tarapalmeri
What will leave the bigger stain on their legacy: the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?

Oh this fucking dunce, again?

She is one of the biggest lolcows on the Internet. A fake "influencer" who beclowns herself on the daily.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (CWez5)

Well the first was Biden, not Trump. Or is Biden blowing up the boats now?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (8avO+)

219 Because this is a spiritual war, not just a civil or social one, and this is one those instances where stan shows us his teeth and laughs in our faces openly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (trsuh)
This is rated 100% correct.
Posted by: Erome

who is stan?

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (Htf7a)

220 If he was hanging about campus he could have overheard chatter about the evil right wing girl from students or administrators and decided to take action for it.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (8avO+)

I get it. Until he murdered the MIT professor he knew from Portugal and people said he was a weirdo who whined. An uber intelligent person who was po'd that no one but mostly him recognized this.

Maybe he hates women? I simply doubt that poor lovely girl was the reason. And I'd be the first to say so. That was the thought until the MIT murder.

I doubt she was the target...the MIT professor was, and he was mad at either being kicked out of Brown or their not recognizing his genius.

I have met two people like this in my life. Both not good looking and clung to their vast IQ. Both were told from a young age how brilliant they were, etc.

In life he was a loser. He could not, according to a former Brown classmate, mingle at all with others. Maybe someone mocked him in that lecture hall he sprayed bullets. We may know or may never know.

I do know that Governor DeSantis will not withhold information from Miami, where he was living in a $900k apartment or townhouse.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (WONhk)

221 The 500F degree method works very good for a standing rib roast. I used it the past two Christmases and it came out perfect each time. Actually the best prime rib we've ever had.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (Vh9CX)

It's kind of hard to mess up, except by overcooking it. Smoked, rock salt covered, sous vide and broil, etc. It's all good. And now I want prime rib. Thanks for the reminder. I need to take ours out of the freezer.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (dK+Kv)

222 who is stan?

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (Htf7a)

Not today, stan.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:50 PM (dK+Kv)

223 "Brown University President Christina Paxson, smiling: 'I don't think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened.'"

That's actually a true statement. If one disables the cameras that are already installed, it doesn't matter how many there were: any value of X cameras disabled is equal to zero cameras.

So it's absurd to say the cameras don't matter and prevented nothing since that contradicts the school's proactive financing and installation of an extremely high number of them. It's not absurd to say cameras didn't affect anything if no cameras were ever operational or were disabled for whatever reason.

In any case, there's a lot of bureaucrats who should be fired if not prosecuted for dereliction and perhaps illegal behavior at Brown. It has been putting its paying clientele at risk, perhaps intentionally, due to outside pressure.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 22, 2025 07:51 PM (gLikB)

224 106

'White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement'

Screw them. I want an all year pause in Catholic bishops' sedition attempts.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)

Trump said to them "Render unto Caesar things that are Caesar's." And nobody can argue that Illegal Criminals are God's

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (8avO+)

225 They later fled to Egypt to escape Herod. However, most of the idiots don't even know that much.

OK, so they were legitimate political refugees. And when the threat was over, they WENT HOME.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (3nLb4)

226 In any case, there's a lot of bureaucrats who should be fired if not prosecuted for dereliction and perhaps illegal behavior at Brown. It has been putting its paying clientele at risk, perhaps intentionally, due to outside pressure.

how is a private institution doing what it wants illegal in any way?

Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (Htf7a)

227 They later fled to Egypt to escape Herod. However, most of the idiots don't even know that much.

OK, so they were legitimate political refugees. And when the threat was over, they WENT HOME.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (3nLb4)

and by the UN rules for refugees, they went to the adjacent country, stayed there and did no crimes, and then went home when Herod died.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (8avO+)

228 In any case, there's a lot of bureaucrats who should be fired if not prosecuted for dereliction and perhaps illegal behavior at Brown. It has been putting its paying clientele at risk, perhaps intentionally, due to outside pressure.

how is a private institution doing what it wants illegal in any way?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (Htf7a)

There probably are dozens of regulations requiring surveillance and safety that were violated.

I remember once at Wash U someone got into a dorm suite and robbed a couple of students. The entire student campus was rekeyed in 48 hours

Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:56 PM (8avO+)

229 MIT professor was married and had 3 children.

His wiki mentions that the murderer graduated top in their undergrad class in Portugal.

He was tops, you see. But had nothing much but his past to brag about.

I want to know what he's been doing since his return in 2017 and green card.

His parents in Portugal are said to be "well off." They also said he did not contact them for 20yrs, even once he returned in 2003. I find that a bit hard to believe and figure they are protecting their own assets.

He had to be doing SOMETHING as his townhouse or apt in Miami is worth $900k.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 08:05 PM (WONhk)

230 n: "how is a private institution doing what it wants illegal in any way?"

The way I would approach this is as a deception. A trade practices act. The campus is presented as a safe haven for the customers. The students will be protected while on campus. If steps were taken to proactively endanger these students, the school becomes culpable for harm that comes to them. I'd suggest that proactively disabling security (i.e. cameras and ignoring warnings) after installing hundreds of them is a deception and this one resulted in a mass deadly assault.

There's civic liability and criminal liability. I'm almost certain civic liability will come into play. Criminal liability is a harder nut, but, to me, not inconceivable. If, of course, the disabling of security cameras and apparatus was done to protect illegal activity (not this particular murderer but other violent campus hostility in general).

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (gLikB)

231 OK, so they were legitimate political refugees. And when the threat was over, they WENT HOME.

Egypt was part of the Roman Empire, it would be as if fleeing from IL to seek refuge in IN

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:36 PM (a4flb)

232 n: "how is a private institution doing what it wants illegal in any way?"

So they can institute slavery on campus?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 22, 2025 09:28 PM (rlXCY)

233 Why is there supposedly a "right to anonymity" for protesters and activists? There's a right to free speech, but it says nothing about your free speech not being identified as yours. I mean, an anonymous opinion is pointless...

Posted by: EddieS at December 23, 2025 12:17 AM (wi25e)

234 Lisi saw the suspicious man at least 10 times and notified the campus security at least twice, but it appears that nobody took the behavior seriously.

The campus police chief was probably busy polishing his cap.

Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (st9l0)

Surprise: The "Reporter" Who Leaked and Whined That Her Hit-Piece Got Held Up Turns Out to Have a History of Batty Leftwing Propaganda Pieces

Chuck Ross for the Free Beacon:

'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong

Alfonsi's immigration piece needed additional reporting, Editor in Chief Bari Weiss told CBS staff

A 60 Minutes correspondent is up in arms after CBS management delayed a story decrying the deportation of illegal aliens from the United States to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, accusing CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss of caving to political pressure and betraying sacred journalistic principles. The correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, was behind an embarrassing 2021 flub at 60 Minutes in which she falsely reported that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) gave preferential treatment to a campaign donor to distribute coronavirus vaccines.
...
In her leaked email to her colleagues, Alfonsi accused CBS News and Weiss of engaging in "corporate censorship" and of "betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism." Reporters at CBS News are threatening to quit over the Weiss decision, CNN's Brian Stelter reported (it's unlikely that anyone will actually quit due to the fast-shrinking job market for television reporters).

LOL.

...
There's precedent warranting additional legwork on Alfonsi's segments. Alfonsi was the lead correspondent on a debunked story in 2021 that DeSantis gave preferential treatment to the supermarket chain Publix to distribute coronavirus vaccines because the company donated $100,000 to DeSantis's campaign.
"How is that not pay-to-play?" Alfonsi asked DeSantis when she confronted him after one of the governor's press conferences.
Several Florida officials, including Democrats, blasted the 60 Minutes report, saying that DeSantis's office was not involved in awarding contracts to Publix.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla.), who oversaw Florida's emergency management division in 2021 and is known for tangling with the GOP, said that the division recommended Publix for the contract because other pharmacies were not equipped to distribute vaccines.
"No one from the Governor's office suggested Publix. It's just absolute malarkey," he said.
Then-Palm Beach County mayor Dave Kerner (D.) called the story "intentionally false." Publix said the story was "absolutely false and offensive." And DeSantis said the story provides an example of "why nobody trusts corporate media."
"They are a disaster in what they are doing," the governor said. "They knew what they were doing was a lie."
Poynter, a media watchdog group funded largely by liberal charities, called the report a "sloppy moment" that "misses the mark." The Publix donations to DeSantis's campaign were "neither illegal nor unusual," according to Poynter.
CBS did not correct or apologize for the segment, only issuing a narrow statement defending why it edited down DeSantis's comments to Alfonsi and pointing out that DeSantis declined 60 Minutes' offer for a full sit-down interview.
...

Alfonsi never weighed in on her faulty DeSantis report beyond the narrow statement issued by CBS. 60 Minutes rarely apologizes for or corrects its reporting unless confronted with widespread public opprobrium and overwhelming evidence that its reporting was false.

In more propaganda news: NPR is warning its reporters from continuing to cite a "law professor" named Carl Tobias, who is apparently on dozens and dozens of reporters' cell phones as someone willing to give them whatever quote they need to sell the main political point they're trying to make.

Apparently he's almost always cited as "an expert," and an expert in many different fields. Whatever you need an "expert" to comment on, Carl Tobias is your one-stop shop.

From the @semafor media newsletter: NPR says no more quotes from someone named Professor Carl Tobias pic.twitter.com/o0brCsLgrf
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) December 22, 2025

NPR's "media reporter" David Folkenflik -- only barely less egregious a partisan than Brian Stelter -- just quoted this All-Purpose Expert.

Making this even funnier -- NPR media reporter David Folkenflik quoted this "rent-a-quote" professor in two recent Trump-related media stories. https://t.co/CTDcKZAj9e pic.twitter.com/DlIov1CK2F
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 22, 2025

I know what you're thinking: this self-declared media-friendly "expert" in all matters that the media is obsessing about in Current Day must be a conservative.

Duh, you're so dumb sometimes. He's a reliable "expert" willing to offer every leftwing propagandist an "expert quote" on whatever political op the Democrats are running today.

In 2016, for example, he was offering Politico quotes about Trump's list of possible Supreme Court picks being "known for political activism," despite none actually having any such history.

University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias is quoted in Politico characterizing Donald Trump's list of putative Supreme Court "candidates" as "fairly notable people but more for their active politics than maybe their jurisprudence." Tobias is not quoted as providing any evidence for this claim.
It's not worth a great deal of time debating the makeup of Trump's list. Like most of Trump's policy statements, it won't bind Trump should he ever be in a position to nominate a Supreme Court justice. It's more of an olive branch to conservatives worried about the future of the court than a real short list for a vacancy. Trump's actual list may be completely different if the opportunity ever presented itself.

This is from National Review, thus the intense anti-Trump animus. And also, the intense being-wrong-about-everything-ness.

I do think, however, that Professor Tobias's statement does a great disservice to those judges who -- through no fault, wish or desire of their own -- ended up on Trump's list. The overwhelming majority of the eleven judges on the list have had little to no involvement in elected politics (of the non-judicial election sort). Many are names that 99.9 percent of Americans have never heard of -- jurists who have had distinguished careers in academia, public service and the judiciary
Take, for instance, the federal judges on the list. Steve Colloton, Tom Hardiman, Diane Sykes, Ray Kethledge, and Raymond Gruender were all appointed to the bench by George W. Bush after careers in private practice (Kethledge and Hardiman), as United States Attorneys (Colloton and Gruender) or as state court judges (Sykes). Bill Pryor, now on the Eleventh Circuit, served as the Attorney General of Alabama before he was recess appointed by President Bush after being filibustered by Senate Democrats. (He was later confirmed by the Senate). But Judge Pryor has hardly been a political activist from the bench. In fact, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which you might think would not have happened if he were a conservative political activist.

Posted by: Ace at 05:48 PM

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1 Dull edge for the win

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (mlg/3)

2 Where’s my shocked face?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (u73oe)

3 At this point I would fire her for cause. I mean bitching just because your boss pulls your one sided hit piece that you refused to even run by the administration to get their side of the story and then you complain and blame the Jews for it? It's time for her/he/it to go.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)

4 In before the hand wringers

Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (uQzkA)

5 My sloppy moment missed the mark.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (pkeXY)

6 We should definitely trust our political mouthpiece betters.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (NwnyJ)

7 They buried the lede. NPR has a Standards Chief.

Posted by: the dandy at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (8l8nW)

8
boy, do I feel dumb

here I am in the lower thread discussing this very topic

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (CWez5)

9 The SPLC was like this back in early 2000s, according to Rush. He called it "one guy with a fax machine" that would put a racist spin on *any* story, and that's how the SPLC would get quoted constantly.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (Wt5PA)

10 Apparently he's almost always cited as "an expert," and an expert in many different fields. Whatever you need an "expert" to comment on, Carl Tobias is your one-stop shop.

His nipples simply do not measure up.

Posted by: Tom Nichols at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (TbWk/)

11
CBS fake "news" tried to NBC-Ford-Pinto the Trump Admin.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (CWez5)

12 I'm so old, I remember that there were people who called themselves reporters reporting the news. They weren't any better or more honest than journalists.

Posted by: huerfano at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (98kQX)

13 In more propaganda news: NPR is warning its reporters from continuing to cite a "law professor" named Carl Tobias, who is apparently on dozens and dozens of reporters' cell phones as someone willing to give them whatever quote they need to sell the main political point they're trying to make.
_______________________

The guy is a real life "Mr. Know it All" from the Bullwinkle cartoons.

How to be a beatnik:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7xkw4n

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (dIske)

14 To think that I once had a subscription to National Review.

Dear William F. Buckley, Sorry about what happened to your brother, I am not going to ask you to cancel my subscription. I am simply not going to renew it.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (qFwJc)

15 Sharyn Alfonsi's expressed beef with Bari's decision was that alfonsi had worked soooo3 hard, and the piece was like in the can and all. And then Bari had to barge in with something about editorial standards!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (pS434)

16 Alfonsi was top of her class at the Kent Brockman School of Journalism.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (5yDGQ)

17 Tobias has a student review from earlier this year that indicates he is still wearing a mask while teaching. So that tells you something about what kind of guy he is. His picture also looks like an anthropomorphized penis with worm eyes.

Posted by: DPICM at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (zweKz)

18 It's time for her/he/it to go.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)

s/he/it

FIFY

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (Wt5PA)

19 I'm also an expert in sex. You could ask me about all the acrobatic escapades me and my girl from Canada did, but a gentleman never tells.

Posted by: Carl Tobias at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (sDWtc)

20 Carl Tobias is full of sh*t.

You can quote me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (9ipOP)

21 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (abIsI)

22 'You need to do more of your job on this one.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (zZu0s)

23 Sharyn should go undercover at the El Salvador prison.

Never to heard from again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (2GVsD)

24 >>>CNN's Brian Stelter reported (it's unlikely that anyone will actually quit due to the fast-shrinking job market for television reporters)

I am uncomfortable in a world where Stelter is the voice of reason about a situation.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (dK+Kv)

25 > Reporters at CBS News are threatening to quit over the Weiss decision, CNN's Brian Stelter reported

Cool. That means I won't have to pay for unemployment.

Yeah, sport: there are 20 equally-talentless communist hacks just waiting in line to replace your lefty ass.

Posted by: Bari Weiss at December 22, 2025 06:01 PM (IG3/x)

26 The reporter should be fired for her e-mail.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 06:01 PM (KDPiq)

27 Reporters at CBS News are threatening to quit over the Weiss decision, CNN's Brian Stelter reported (it's unlikely that anyone will actually quit due to the fast-shrinking job market for television reporters).
====
If that actually happens, I might actually be impressed.

But it won't happen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:01 PM (9ipOP)

28
President: "You don't have a stupid president, anymore."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (CWez5)

29 I see folks donning a mask. LOL. I am too kind to say "You look like a fool. Mosquito trying to get through a chain-link fence."

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (qFwJc)

30 Sharyn is kind of attractive. I thought she'd be a feminazi of indeterminate sex. She's an arrogant putz however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (MoRvC)

31 Alfonsi was top of her class at the Kent Brockman School of Journalism.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (5yDGQ)

Alfonsi jumped the sharked.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (dK+Kv)

32 There's dozens of us!

Posted by: Tobias at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (rkTTp)

33 I don't care what anyone says, Bari Atric looks like Lena Dunham's less attractive sister.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (dGCAG)

34 We should definitely trust our political mouthpiece betters.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (NwnyJ)

Why not? They have the inside scoop on things, sometimes from the very individuals they moved heaven and earth to install within campaigns and agencies.
There is nothin an establishment media hates worse than a closed campaign that doesn't leak or employ staff that can be used to influence policy.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (rbvCR)

35 I believe Bari Weiss is in an interesting position as editor in chief; or whatever she’s being called. She has the confidence of the top guy in charge of the corporation; but she’s parallel to, not over or under the head of CBS.
It looks to me like she does *not* have the power to hire or fire, but she does have the power to spike anything they do if she doesn’t like it. Which when I think about it must really piss them off more than anything else possibly could.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (trsuh)

36 Quote:

"This guy is full of shit."

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (1wjle)

37 Ita all fucking lies, all the time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (N/gmR)

38 Lying liars whom lie are upset that we point out they are liars?

Am I understanding this properly?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (cYBz/)

39 Okay okay, twist my ARM! we totally did it.

Posted by: Carl Tobias at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (sDWtc)

40 >>>It looks to me like she does *not* have the power to hire or fire, but she does have the power to spike anything they do if she doesn’t like it.

well there were some firings, if I remember right. I don't know if she fired them on her own authority.

Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (1wjle)

41 >>> Sharyn is kind of attractive. I thought she'd be a feminazi of indeterminate sex. She's an arrogant putz however
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (MoRvC)

Not beating the male prison population rap.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (3uBP9)

42 Sharyn is kind of attractive. I thought she'd be a feminazi of indeterminate sex. She's an arrogant putz however
Posted by: Smell the Glove

==============

She's 53 to Weiss's 41, so there may be some whippersnapper resentment as well as cattiness.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (pS434)

43 I see folks donning a mask. LOL. I am too kind to say "You look like a fool. Mosquito trying to get through a chain-link fence."
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (qFwJc)
====

I am too kind to say, "your mask is soiled and spreading disease."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (9ipOP)

44 Custodian at Brown University warned security several times about Brown University gunman. Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/mzmaeukh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (ix8EF)

45 > 9 The SPLC was like this back in early 2000s, according to Rush. He called it "one guy with a fax machine" that would put a racist spin on *any* story, and that's how the SPLC would get quoted constantly.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (Wt5PA)

Lots of organizations like that. The "Center for Science in the Public Interest" was one dude with a postage meter. He was trained in microbiology, but has absolutely no expertise in human nutrition.

This is the yutz who issued dire warnings about how unhealthy movie popcorn was (among many other idiocies). Who the hell thought movie popcorn was healthy in the first place, and how much movie popcorn does an average person eat in a year? One bag? Maybe?

Posted by: Bari Weiss at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (IG3/x)

46 George Tobias was more believable.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (pkeXY)

47 Please remind me. Who did Trump sue and get a $20 million settlement?

Barri Weise is trying to avoid that happening to CBS News.

I like the cut of her jib.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (qFwJc)

48
I don't know if any of You have noticed, but the Press Secretary has mixed in a healthy dose of "journalists" who aren't Democrat party Fake News into the press pool, so the President now gets asked reasonable questions. Sometimes these "journalists" are bit too pro-Trump, but they are a refreshing counter to the nasty Fake News fake "reporters" nasty fake "questions."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (CWez5)

49 Now, good people, let's not rush to judgement about this person. After all, he is an academic, and as such, has a highly-trained intellect, and furthermore, he may be very sensitive to criticism. We should, above all, maintain our sense of fair play and decorum!

Posted by: Senator Mitt Romney at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (jibVG)

50 NPR's "media reporter" David Folkenflik -- only barely less egregious a partisan than Brian Stelter -- just quoted this All-Purpose Expert.

Folkenflik sounds like a cheap German sound system.

Posted by: Cheri at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (oiNtH)

51 I always wondered if reporters had some database they could go to in order to get somebody, anybody, to give them the quote they need to shape the narrative.

Apparently, for most stories they just find some random professor who likes seeing their name in print.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (6ydKt)

52 Tobias on Arrested Development has more credibility than Prof Tobias

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (MoRvC)

53 The parents of Ella Cook are probably not poor. With a good lawyer, they will have Brown's endowment.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (qFwJc)

54 I like the cut of her jib.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (qFwJc)

I don't think her jib is cut.

More like a rounded, marshmallow texture.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (dGCAG)

55 Folkenflik sounds like the proper German language term for female self pleasure.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (3uBP9)

56 Intentionally False Hit Piece? That really sucks. I would know. What's the ethical standard here? Bitch retracts and apologizes?

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (WI7ox)

57 In May 2013, Alfonsi gave the commencement address at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. Her speech was named by NPR as one of "The Best Commencement Speeches Ever". Ever!!!

Posted by: Cheri at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (oiNtH)

58 > 52 Tobias on Arrested Development has more credibility than Prof Tobias
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (MoRvC)

I'd sooner trust Tobias Gregson.

Posted by: Sherlock Holmes at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (IG3/x)

59 When does the left wing drive by media ever not do a "hit piece"? It's all they know which is why no one watches their crap anymore except oldsters and shut ins.

Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows The Mystery at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (R/m4+)

60 Folkenflik sounds like a cheap German ~~sound system~~ film streaming service.

FIFY

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (qFwJc)

61 Because who would listen to a ventriloquist journalist without a dummy?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (guGkK)

62 I miss Tobias in his daisy dukes

Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (uQzkA)

63 Why wouldn’t Florida use Publix to distribute stuff?

It’s the largest supermarket chain in Florida.
There is one in every town.

When you cross the state line the sign reads:
Welcome To Florida, The Sunshine State - brought to you by Disney and Publix

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (6ydKt)

64 Tobias on Arrested Development was an effing retard.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (qFwJc)

65
Yes, Rush spotted the Great Circle-Jerk these fake "journalists" partake in, often time with Government officials.

That's how they spearheaded the Russia Hoax -- Fake News used a Deep State Shit as a fake "source," and Deep State used Fake News as a fake "source," and this was their fake "evidence" for grounds to begin a fake "investigation." Of course, a fake "judge" is totally aware of the Shuck & Jive game going on and goes along with it.

Yes, it is truly a Conspiracy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (CWez5)

66 Sharyn should go undercover at the El Salvador prison.

Never to heard from again.
Posted by: Anna Puma
......

best sex of her life.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (v0R5T)

67 On what planet do these psychos reside? In order for this to be a thing, you have to believe Bari Weiss is a Trumpian wingnut.

I am at risk of losing my sense of decorum with these festering fuckwits.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (pIfcn)

68 "...It's just absolute malarkey," he said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (YubK1)

69 I'd sooner trust Tobias Gregson.
Posted by: Sherlock Holmes

You sound tobiased.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (mlg/3)

70 > When you cross the state line the sign reads:
Welcome To Florida, The Sunshine State - brought to you by Disney and Publix
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (6ydKt)

I've often wondered if devout Muslims (and Jews, for that matter) avoid shopping at Piggly Wiggly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (IG3/x)

71
Another example is the ukraine phone call Hoax for the fake impeachment.

Literally a Conspiracy transpired.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (CWez5)

72 Sharyn 'Hatchetface' Alfonsi

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (v0R5T)

73 >>>In her leaked email to her colleagues, Alfonsi accused CBS News and Weiss of engaging in "corporate censorship" and of "betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism."

She should be fired for this.

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (RuTUS)

74 Tobias : I tried out for the Blue Man Group
Michael: did someone paint you blue?
Tobias : no Michael I blue myself
Michael : there has to be a better way to say that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (MoRvC)

75 NPR is learning there is a relatively small market for uniparty news without government funding.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)

76 The richest guy at my 20 yr HS reunion was a metallurgist who made his living by testifying in court to whatever the lawyer paid him to say.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

77 Tobias Smollett > Jussie Smollett

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (jibVG)

78 I mean bitching just because your boss pulls your one sided hit piece that you refused to even run by the administration to get their side of the story and then you complain and blame the Jews for it?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)

Whoa! That's unexpected.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (uQesX)

79 I am uncomfortable in a world where Stelter is the voice of reason about a situation.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
=======
Consider it a stopped clock (analog) right twice per day.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (WDjG6)

80 well there were some firings, if I remember right. I don't know if she fired them on her own authority.
Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (1wjle)

If memory serves there were cutbacks, layoffs, and at least a couple flounces, but like you I’m not sure if she was involved or was just the instigator.

It’s not a stable situation for the company, of course - it must really chap the actual head of CBS to have the Big Bosses darling breathing down his neck and giving thumbs up or thumbs down to everything he does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (trsuh)

81 Is Alfonsi the broad who went to the Syrian prison and interviewed the guy who had supposedly been tortured and starved?

Even though he was well groomed, and a bit on the chubby side?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)

82 44 Custodian at Brown University warned security several times about Brown University gunman. Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/mzmaeukh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
---------

A custodian talking up to his betters should know to keep his place.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:15 PM (YubK1)

83 I've often wondered if devout Muslims (and Jews, for that matter) avoid shopping at Piggly Wiggly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (IG3/x)

The larger the family, the more the need for Costco.

(or BJs, but that presents an entirely different problem)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (6ydKt)

84
For Christmas, I want to see Brown Univ foisted.

I also want Conan OBrien foisted.

In case you're unawares, rumors have it that Conan OBrian personally poo-poo'd the idea to his other guests of calling 911 to intervene between Meathead & his angry son.

So, Conan OBryan, whom I hate, is partly responsible for Meathead & Mrs Meathead getting butchered by their own son.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (CWez5)

85 Is Alfonsi the broad who went to the Syrian prison and interviewed the guy who had supposedly been tortured and starved?

Even though he was well groomed, and a bit on the chubby side?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)

Looked it up, that was Clarissa Ward.

Widely believed to be CIA.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (dGCAG)

86 SanFranpsycho, are you seeing reporting about a possible Israeli/ US conflagration with Iran in the next few days?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (sDNVV)

87 Burt, did Bari turn you down for the senior prom? Make fun of your dick?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

88 Tobias on Arrested Development was an effing retard.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (qFwJc)

And gay. But that was t he point of the character, no?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

89 60 Minutes rarely apologizes for or corrects its reporting unless confronted with widespread public opprobrium and overwhelming evidence that its reporting was false.

Which is why nobody should believe a thing 60 Minutes reports. The most surprised people when 60 Minutes is called on for false reporting are the 60 Minutes reporters.

I openly laugh at anyone who cites anything 60 Minutes reports as fact. Alex Jones is more truthful, by far.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (4nEGa)

90 Burt, did Bari turn you down for the senior prom? Make fun of your dick?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

She's an idiot, and a leftist, but she's pro-Israel, so people think she's something.

She's not.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (dGCAG)

91 Is Alfonsi the broad who went to the Syrian prison and interviewed the guy who had supposedly been tortured and starved?

Even though he was well groomed, and a bit on the chubby side?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)

Looked it up, that was Clarissa Ward.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (dGCAG)

Didn't she explain it to you?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (uQesX)

92 Carl Spackler > Carl Tobias.
I'm all right, don't have to worry about me.

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (LHPAg)

93 Left Coast Dawg, How are ya?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (sDNVV)

94 60 Minutes seems like a TV show from some golden age of television back in the 1960s. Like Saturday Night Live.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (jc0TO)

95 The richest guy at my 20 yr HS reunion was a metallurgist who made his living by testifying in court to whatever the lawyer paid him to say.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

Heh. Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

96 Heh. Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM

He owned a Rolls Royce back when that was a thing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (jc0TO)

97 84
For Christmas, I want to see Brown Univ foisted.

I also want Conan OBrien foisted.
...
...
Posted by: Soothsayer
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I think you mis-spelled hoisted.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (YubK1)

98 It's crazy that the media still thinks the "experts say" works.

Sure, on deranged Boomers who consume 14 hours of programming a day.

Here's what "experts say" really means:
1) If they're not named, they're 80% fake; 30% rent-a-quote (110% false)
2) if they are named, 100% of the time, their partisan background is hidden.
Exception: if they are a RINO from an alleged conservative institution attacking conservatives, then the background is up front.
3) 0% of their "legal" experts have been right about any of the pending cases against Trump when they reach the SCOTUS. Yet never are their prior prognostications disclosed.
Seems like an ought-fer W/L record would be relevant to their "expert" status.

But for real, the media has had a roladex of go-to experts to give them a quote on what ever they want them to say for decades.
How bad must he be to put this in writing?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (HXT0k)

99 One of Thomas Sowell's best quotes:

For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. But for every fact, there is not an equal and opposite fact.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 06:22 PM (HXT0k)

100
new toon!

Grinch Inadvertently Makes America Great Again

https://is.gd/9Vnuum

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:23 PM (CWez5)

101 Are these people seriously not speaking in tongues? Because this mealy-mouthed, gobbledygook is totally deceptive, you guys!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 06:23 PM (nljXp)

102 Experts. You find them on Ancient Aliens. Experts.

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:24 PM (LHPAg)

103 Like I said, Ella Cook's parents are going to make hay.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:24 PM (qFwJc)

104 92 Carl Spackler > Carl Tobias.
I'm all right, don't have to worry about me.
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (LHPAg)

I remember that looper.

Posted by: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama at December 22, 2025 06:24 PM (jibVG)

105 87 Burt, did Bari turn you down for the senior prom? Make fun of your dick?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

He hates absolutely everybody. Why he crawls out from under his rock I’ll never understand.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 06:25 PM (4786I)

106 But for real, the media has had a roladex of go-to experts to give them a quote on what ever they want them to say for decades.
How bad must he be to put this in writing?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Roladex? I think they use Slack, or Stick, or Dick or something now.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:25 PM (mlg/3)

107 But for real, the media has had a roladex of go-to experts to give them a quote on what ever they want them to say for decades.
How bad must he be to put this in writing?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (HXT0k)

The best ones are those who go into court to testify.

Who is paying you? That's who you side with. But they spend half an hour reciting their resume, and then when the other side brings up their expert, they do the same thing.

In the end, juries side with the expert they like more.

Awesome system we got.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:25 PM (dGCAG)

108 Folks don't sue doctors for malpractice if he/she is nice.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:28 PM (qFwJc)

109 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong

That's like Hillary getting booted from the Watergate hit squad for being too dirty. It takes some work to disgust your fellow Democrats!

Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 06:28 PM (rJjpq)

110
Brown University needs to be sued into oblivion. They should be shut down because they will not change anything.

No amount of money can compensate for the loss of a child.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 06:29 PM (3ek7K)

111 In the end, juries side with the expert they like more.
Awesome system we got.
Posted by: BurtTC

I was on a murder trial jury once. The defense had an 'expert' testify that the sound on a home security camera was faulty or something, and tried to prove it with some audio software. Unforts for him, one of the jurists was an audio engineer. He didn't say anything until the case was over, but he ripped the expert testimony to the judge. Was the funniest part of a stupid trial.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:29 PM (mlg/3)

112 99 One of Thomas Sowell's best quotes:

For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. But for every fact, there is not an equal and opposite fact.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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He should take that to heart when he strays away from economics.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:30 PM (YubK1)

113 Whenever you have a seemingly bias reporter you always need to look at his/her producer.

The producer that works most with this reporter is Oriana Zill de Granados. That's a real name...and you won't be shocked by the stories she is associated with. Including the DeSantis one, and the CETOS one.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 06:30 PM (dIske)

114 Thomas Sowell should have been our first black president.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)

115 Of the Boston Zill de Granados?

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:32 PM (qFwJc)

116 110
Brown University needs to be sued into oblivion. They should be shut down because they will not change anything.

No amount of money can compensate for the loss of a child.

Posted by: fourseasons
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But their billion dollar trust fund could help pay off the national debt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:33 PM (YubK1)

117 As a fellow Tobias, I suggest Carl Tobias seek counseling.

Posted by: Tobias Funke, M.D. Analrapist at December 22, 2025 06:33 PM (wVcYX)

118
We should appreciate & utilize Thomas Sowell while he's still alive, instead of waiting until he's mort, which will be soon.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:34 PM (CWez5)

119 But their billion dollar trust fund could help pay off the national debt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:33 PM

The Dissolution of the Monasteries for our age.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)

120 One of my law school professors, a real hardass who I got along with had a great line
"An expert is a guy from out of town with a briefcase"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (MoRvC)

121 >>>Folks don't sue doctors for malpractice if he/she ~~is nice~~ has nice tits.

Posted by: no one

>FIFY

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (nljXp)

122 a History of Batty Leftwing Propaganda Pieces

That it says "batty" instead of "penguinny" is proof that convincing people we don't exist is our biggest triumph!

* wing flaps in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (hEpeQ)

123 SanFranpsycho, are you seeing reporting about a possible Israeli/ US conflagration with Iran in the next few days?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (sDNVV)
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I did see a blip about it but I am predisposed to disbelieve reports like that. The Iranians are more likely to murder a professor at MIT then attempt to laundh another massive attack. They have other priorities right now.

Then again, I'm always wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (9ipOP)

124 Then again, I'm always wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (9ipOP)

No, you're not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:36 PM (dK+Kv)

125 Well, lead balloon and all.

@Reuters 26m
Instacart ends AI-driven price experiments after criticism http://reut.rs/3KWhJZR http://reut.rs/3KWhJZR

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:37 PM (mlg/3)

126 For Christmas, I want to see Brown Univ foisted.

I also want Conan OBrien foisted.
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Posted by: Soothsayer
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I think you mis-spelled hoisted.
Posted by: Braenyard

Don't be a petard.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 06:37 PM (cYBz/)

127
Then again, I'm always wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (9ipOP)

No, you're not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Yes I am.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:37 PM (CWez5)

128
I mean yes he is.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (CWez5)

129 The Iranians water shortage is front and center right now. The government might collapse because of it. Hopefully

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (MoRvC)

130 Like the water supply to Teheran?

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (qFwJc)

131 Shoot. Scrolling up I now see that all possible Arrested Development Tobias jokes/comments have been made already.

Posted by: Tobias Funke, M.D. Analrapist at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (wVcYX)

132
Heh. I was just reading. Trump's Big Beautiful Battleships aren't gonna be traditional battleships. They're going to be beefed up destroyers, really.

Donnie Two Scoops just likes the term "battleship", so that's what we're gonna call them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (w6EFb)

133 Water shortage is awesome. Only regime people get water. The rest die in a week. Easy peasy

Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (8jVAy)

134 Like the water supply to Teheran?
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (qFwJc)

They have any reservoirs?

Posted by: The Dambusters at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (uQesX)

135 Tobias? No relation.

Golly!

Posted by: Toby from Roots at December 22, 2025 06:40 PM (wVcYX)

136 I was just reading. Trump's Big Beautiful Battleships aren't gonna be traditional battleships. They're going to be beefed up destroyers, really.

Donnie Two Scoops just likes the term "battleship", so that's what we're gonna call them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (w6EFb)

lol

Which is what was surmised last thread on this here smart milblog.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:40 PM (dK+Kv)

137 133 Water shortage is awesome. Only regime people get water. The rest die in a week. Easy peasy
Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (8jVAy)
Water's for closers.

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:41 PM (LHPAg)

138 429 I think that we gave up on the idea of pykrete aircraft carriers the size of islands way too soon.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 06:41 PM (jc0TO)

139 They have any reservoirs?
Posted by: The Dambusters at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (uQesX)

Tehran's water supply has been managed in a manner similar to LA's. Apparently there were greater needs for the last 40 years than ensuring drinking water for the country's capitol.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 06:41 PM (rbvCR)

140 @135 Toby , Kunta, Toby, , KUNTA, you are Toby

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:42 PM (MoRvC)

141 Thomas Sowell should have been our first black president.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)
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*swoons*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:42 PM (9ipOP)

142 Government collapse is wishful thinking. Both Cuba and Iran will supply the rulers with electricity and water. The people will suffer. How can they or the UK overthrow Herr Starmer without guns?

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:42 PM (qFwJc)

143 I have been more of a supporter of Netanyahu than most; but my impression of that story was that Bibi was trying to pump up the idea of an attack for his own political purposes, rather than there being much of a threat of one actually happening.

By the way the Iranians talk crap all the time, they’ve been doing it every day for 40 years. So it doesn’t mean much to say “well look what the Iranians said.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (trsuh)

144 We have a bone to pick with President Trump. Had he made the "Battleship" announcement a month ago, it could have boosted sales of our board game immensely for Christmas/ Chanukah.

Posted by: Milton Bradley at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (oftw2)

145 Brown is obviously an extremely liberal shithole. They are also in a long running legal battle with the Narragansett indian tribe that claims Brown was built on land that was stolen from them.

Turns out they are only liberal with other people's stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (viF8m)

146 I don't care for legal Experts. I'm put off by the heavy makeup and the miniskirts with net stockings as they promise to say anything, absolutely anything for a price.

Posted by: Hal Dall at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (TYS4f)

147 Death cults don’t save for a rainy day

Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (8jVAy)

148 Reporters at CBS News are threatening to quit over the Weiss decision, CNN's Brian Stelter reported

Their terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (xNHSX)

149 I mean yes he is.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (CWez5)
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Okay. Sometimes I'm wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (9ipOP)

150 126 For Christmas, I want to see Brown Univ foisted.

I also want Conan OBrien foisted.
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Posted by: Soothsayer

A Happy Foistivus to you!

Thanks, Ace! I keep reading your posts between wrapping gifts that I have had for months. Martha Stewart told me years ago this was not good and I still don't listen to her!Winning!

Someone, please send me snow! I am begging now for snow and ice. Please.

I could blame the lack of snow on my falalala being so late. I could.I probably will!

Tomorrow I am baking all day and probably drinking as well. ***those are snowflakes that I need***

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (WONhk)

151 @142 the elites of any society and government vare always a small minority. In Iran a couple of million starving, thirsty people could make a serious revolution.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (MoRvC)

152 Deeply unhappy Karen complains bitterly about being dissatisfied.

Who could have seen that coming?

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (YrUlT)

153 Every Indian tribe lost. They were lucky not to be put to the sword.

Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (8jVAy)

154 Surprise: The "Reporter" Who Leaked and Whined That Her Hit-Piece Got Held Up Turns Out to Have a History of Batty Leftwing Propaganda Pieces

Sharyn

You can tell just by the way she spells her name.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (dAOkg)

155 I was voluntold to become the elevator SME (subject matter expert) in the office. All that meant was I had all the current manufactures manuals and knew what needed fire rating and what did not, and I understood the comically complex formula to determine speed and size of said elevators. Any fool could look all that up on his own. After all, that’s all I did.

Expert.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (6Bc88)

156 30
'Sharyn is kind of attractive. I thought she'd be a feminazi of indeterminate sex.'

(Opens story and looks at picture.)

Really?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (fd80v)

157
This is all about Chyna. The Chicoms are getting ahead of us in shipbuilding capacity. Trump is not going to let us get behind China in ruling the seas. The era of American decline is over as far Trump is concerned.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb)

158
Foist is not a word??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (CWez5)

159 Tomorrow I am baking all day and probably drinking as well. ***those are snowflakes that I need***
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Lucky you. I have to work. I do have Wed & Thursday off.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (dAOkg)

160
I thought it was a word.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (CWez5)

161 Imagine a heavily armed nuclear powered pycrete island base a couple of miles long. Sure, it might only move at 3 knots, but that just increases the horror as it slowly creeps toward our enemies.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)

162 "Expert.
Posted by: tcn in AK"

Talk about a job with ups and downs.

Posted by: Micky Ninja at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (vFG9F)

163
NOOOOD

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (CWez5)

164 Tomorrow I am baking all day and probably drinking as well. ***those are snowflakes that I need***
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Careful burning cookies in your state may be a felony.

Posted by: Cookie Puss at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (oftw2)

165 Foist is not a word??
Posted by: Soothsayer

Curly said it was, but Moe said no.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (dAOkg)

166 Government collapse is wishful thinking. Both Cuba and Iran will supply the rulers with electricity and water. The people will suffer. How can they or the UK overthrow Herr Starmer without guns?

They sacrificed hundreds, just to draw us out in the open. And then they came, and they came. We drained four of our phasers, and they still came. We killed thousands and they still came.

Posted by: Captain Tracey at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (R/m4+)

167 Brown is obviously an extremely liberal shithole. They are also in a long running legal battle with the Narragansett indian tribe that claims Brown was built on land that was stolen from them.

Turns out they are only liberal with other people's stuff.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (viF8m)

Had a professor from Brown. So good looking. Good thing there were rules about student teacher fraternization back in the old days. Eh, she was married, too, so....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (uQesX)

168 Okay. Sometimes I'm wrong.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM

Don't sell yourself short.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (jc0TO)

169 146 I don't care for legal Experts. I'm put off by the heavy makeup and the miniskirts with net stockings as they promise to say anything, absolutely anything for a price.
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (TYS4f)

As soon as you said miniskirts and net stockings no morons cared what came out of the expert’s mouth unless it belonged to said moron.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (6Bc88)

170 This is all about Chyna. The Chicoms are getting ahead of us in shipbuilding capacity. Trump is not going to let us get behind China in ruling the seas. The era of American decline is over as far Trump is concerned.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb)

Chinese marine rated steel, and Chinese laminated armor plate, both would make me nervous. Their quality control is such that every time one of those ships goes into salt water it turns into a giant battery and starts eroding.
It might last long enough, or it might turn out like those submarines. Depends.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (rbvCR)

171 Milton Bradley, Battleship is owned by Hasbro now.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (qFwJc)

172 72
' Sharyn 'Hatchetface' Alfonsi'

She's a truck stop parking lot 5.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (fd80v)

173 Chyna imports the good steal and exports Chinesium.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (qFwJc)

174 84
'In case you're unawares, rumors have it that Conan OBrian personally poo-poo'd the idea to his other guests of calling 911 to intervene between Meathead & his angry son.'

Oh. Shit.
"No. Calling the police would be blowing it out of proportion. They'll be all right in the morning."

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (fd80v)

175 166 Government collapse is wishful thinking. Both Cuba and Iran will supply the rulers with electricity and water. The people will suffer. How can they or the UK overthrow Herr Starmer without guns.

You don’t understand how bad Cuba’s situation is. No one is going to overthrow it; what’s going to happen is that all of the electricity for the island is goin to fail, and go down, and no one will be able to turn it back on again, no matter how many people they shoot.

And yes I can see a wave of starvation that might kill half the people there, and the other half will be eating their corpses just to stay alive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (trsuh)

176 I have an old affinity to mini-skirts and fishnet hosiery. Not that I was ever...

But I do remember very good looking gals wearing that combo.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (qFwJc)

177 So, tomorrow's rosary will be for the Cuban and Persian people.

You know, anybody can perform baptism. It doesn't have to be a priest.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (qFwJc)

178 Conan OBrian?

The red-headed bastard?

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (qFwJc)

179 155 I was voluntold to become the elevator SME (subject matter expert) in the office. All that meant was I had all the current manufactures manuals and knew what needed fire rating and what did not, and I understood the comically complex formula to determine speed and size of said elevators. Any fool could look all that up on his own. After all, that’s all I did.

Expert.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM
I'd this group of kids the elevator next to us was pretty safe, but the one we were on was kinda shaky.

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (LHPAg)

180 Wasn't Red China salvaging old WW2 shipwrecks, which is illegal, and stealing the good steel from the 1920s and 30s and 40s?

Posted by: Prince Of Wales and Repulse at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (R/m4+)

181 60 Minutes should have been buried years ago. I haven't watch it in decades. Television is crap these days and hardly worth watching.

Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (G1OIb)

182
50

Folkenflik sounds like a cheap German sound system.
Posted by: Cheri at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM

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It's a German term describing the pleasure of driving an unreliable car made of thin metal.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (VWtfl)

183 Um, nood about 20 minutes ago.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (qFwJc)

184 The good professor looks like a Woodrow Wilson clone.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (rlXCY)

185 Homeless and broken is how all news media "journalists" should end up.

Go to hell assholes.

Quick

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 12:51 PM (61TgR)

Is This Something?

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, due in theaters next July.

Matt Damon looks too stupid to be Shrewd Odysseus, and Nolan is doing the Industry Standard race-swapping, but... I do like most Nolan movies, and hope this is good.

How about some superhero slop? Some people are knocking the Supergirl trailer because the character is apparently a nihilist party-girl. I don't think that's necessarily a bad move because, 1, who cares about Supergirl, and 2, you need to differentiate your heroes from each other. If Superman is a golly-gee optimistic boy scout, it isn't a bad call to make a being with his exact same powers and nearly his exact same costume the opposite of Superman.

Ethan Van Sciver also justifies the take, reasoning that, unlike Superman, Supergirl actually lived through the destruction of Krypton and thus is scarred by the episode. Superman, on the other hand, was sent to earth as a baby and didn't know of the destruction of Krytpon until he was told about it as an adult. (I should note that Supergirl was born before Superman, but, due to time dilation shenanigans over the long trip to earth, arrived later than he did and is now younger than he is.)

Here's my take: I don't care if it's a good take or a bad take. I'm so over this.

But now here's some more Slop Superhero Content: Wonder Man. They did a race swap on Wonder Man which I don't care about because, get this, literally no one cares about Wonder Man. The character was invented for purely cynical reasons -- it was practice back then to steal another company's IP by just flipping the gender of a character. Thus, Marvel created Wonder Man just because DC was making some money with Wonder Woman. (And Stan Lee created She-Hulk because he knew that someone, likely DC, would create a female Hulk if he didn't do so first.)

If you never heard of Wonder Man, don't sweat it. He's a D-list team member on whichever Avengers team needed a spare body in the 80s. He was one of those characters I would actively avoid by not buying a comic if he was on the cover or if I knew he was on the team. Like Captain Mar-Vell or Quasar or a dozen other generic Superman-derivatives.

Wonder Man also seems to be yet another attempt to make a superhero show for bored women. It seems to be a workplace comedy set in Hollywood where all the jokes deliberately undermine the conceit of superheroes. This is all silly stuff, ha ha, do you get it?

I mean, yes, I get it, and that's a fine thing for nerds to joke about amongst themselves, but it's a bad idea to make mockery of the concept of the superhero a central theme of actual superhero medium. The suspension of disbelief is like a soap bubble. It takes very little to burst it.

I've said this before: I've hated this trope since they did it to death during Roger Moore's run as James Bond. It's hard to enjoy the fantasy of the superhero spy when the makers of the movies keep screaming at you "This is all stupid and you're stupid for liking this."

I think they put this crap into movies to appeal to Filthy Casuals, who went into the theater agreeing it was all stupid nonsense, and enjoy seeing the movie itself confirm that it's all stupid nonsense. These Filthy Casuals might even be in the theater under protest, dragged to the show by their boyfriends or husbands. The problem is, that only barely appeases the Filthy Casuals, whose business you don't need and wouldn't get if not for the social obligation to go out with one's male partner, and it actively alienates the actual fans who business you actually do need.

Anyway, I also do not care about this. I care less about Wonder Man than I do about Supergirl. At least Supergirl is an older character which, to my conservative mind, makes her more of a cultural artifact worthy of some limited respect.

I finally saw Weapons over the Thanksgiving weekend. It's pretty good. The first half is a grounded and realistic movie about what would really happen if a bizarre tragedy -- an entire class of 11 year old students, save one, running out into the night for no reason to disappear completely -- struck a town. Angry and desolate parents lash out looking for answers and scapegoats.

And this isn't even done in a heavy Message type way, about Us being the Real Villains After All -- it's just what would really happen. You can hardly blame the bereft parents.

I was kind of dreading the second half because I knew there would be a monster and the monster part would ruin the weird-but-realistic tension and mystery of the first half. But it's pretty good. Instead of giving you a plausible explanation, which they probably realized was impossible, they go in the other direction and hit you right in the WTF? button, and it's a pretty square hit.

If you're not a horror fan, I would skip it. The first half is a tense and well-done weird drama without any gore -- just dread -- but the second half does get bloody and disturbing.

Seen anything worth recommending?

Posted by: Ace at 04:40 PM

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1 The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, due in theaters next July.

Matt Damon looks too stupid to be Shrewd Odysseus, and Nolan is doing the Industry Standard race-swapping, but... I do like most Nolan movies, and hope this is good.

criticism i saw a while ago, based on photos leaked from the shoot, is that the armor looks like they just dug it out of the ground instead of looking shiny and new.

Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (v3pYe)

2 Rookie mistake, read the content

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (/6GbT)

3 Critical Drinker practically slits his wrists in reviewing the new Avatar" Tired and Ass movie. I don't think Hollywood is capable of self-reformation at this point. It's going to take a Dresden-level firestorm to burn out the rats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQghy9ZtY4

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

4 Ray Harryhausen to the white courtesy tlelephone, please.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (oraVG)

5 I never heard of Wonder Man. Don’t guess I’ve missed anything.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (E0Kkk)

6 Still wating for a statement on who was redeemed by the martyrdom of Rob Reiner. Is Nick going to walk?

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (YlWIZ)

7 Who's doing the voice-over in the trailer, Batman?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

8 I think the general take on Supergirl is she's a softer version of Superman. I'm thinking mostly of the Injustice take where Superman is willing to do ANYTHING to implement law and order but Supergirl wants to get him to tone it down and be more merciful.

Of course the whole Injustice thing failed, honestly, because it is a superhero thing and didn't go deeper. Make Superman less over the top and the whole thing plays better on the classic topic of the limitations of power to actually make things better.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

9 Nolan is doing the Industry Standard race-swapping

At this point, it's a Tourette's Syndrome affliction.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

10 These Filthy Casuals might even be in the theater under protest, dragged to the show by their boyfriends or husbands.

Merry Christmas ya Filthy Casuals.

Posted by: Hollywood at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (fryM6)

11 So far in theb last week I've seen FOUR different "Worst Movie Flops of 2025" vides on YouTube by four different reviewers, and...

-- None of the overlapped, and
-- I hadn't even HEARD of most of the film, much less seen them.

It seems 2025 had a bumper crop of complete box-office catastrophes that were such bombs that no one even mocked them because they didn't even know they had been released. That's how bad 2025 was.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (oraVG)

12 The armor should have a good ten years of wear on it, at least. I doubt they’re using boars teeth helmets in any case.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (E0Kkk)

13 Merry Christmas, you Filthy Casuals!!!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (5yDGQ)

14 Ralph Fiennes did a pretty good take on Odysseus in The Return - I suspect he would have been good in this.

He is a MUCH better actor then Damon.

I suspect this movie will play out like Tom Cruise's Valkyrie where the movie was good but its obvious weakness was the lead actor.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

15 >>>Seen anything worth recommending?

Seussical the Musical. Kids just finished their winter show, in the round, and I have to say it is my favorite. It's not Phantom or Le Miserable, but it was fun, the kids put in a lot of work, and they put in some amazing performances.

You're obviously not going to see our version. But if it is in your area, it is worth a look.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (dK+Kv)

16 It seems 2025 had a bumper crop of complete box-office catastrophes that were such bombs that no one even mocked them because they didn't even know they had been released. That's how bad 2025 was.

There are still a few days in 2025. Let's see what new depths they can plumb.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

17 "Weapons" was one of two movies I watched this year that were released this year, and aside from the gay image of an AR-15 in a dream? sequence it was fine.
"Drop" was the other one. Excellent suspense.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (sDWtc)

18 Matt Damon as Odysseus? Sure. Which Kardasian is Penelope?

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)

19
Damned ancient Greek homos.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:49 PM (w6EFb)

20 Hmm, the Odyssey without gods and magic ?

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:49 PM (g47mK)

21 I saw Weapons and Nobody 2. That's it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (cxFcK)

22 Merry Christmas, you Filthy Casuals!!!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (5yDGQ)

Is it Festivus, yet?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (dK+Kv)

23 Fuck Matt Damon.
I wouldn't pee on him if he was on fire.
Same with Colbert & DeNiro.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (MNCvZ)

24 >>>I suspect this movie will play out like Tom Cruise's Valkyrie where the movie was good but its obvious weakness was the lead actor.

i thought he was good. The real problem is the director!

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (1wjle)

25 Weapons was everything Longlegs should have been: good.

Posted by: Max Power at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (q+LBI)

26 >>> Hmm, the Odyssey without gods and magic ?

I liked Troy. They also did the No Gods, No Magic thing.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (1wjle)

27 I finally saw Weapons over the Thanksgiving weekend. It's pretty good. The first half is a grounded and realistic movie about what would really happen if a bizarre tragedy --

I agree and it reminds me a bit of Sunshine where the first half of the movie is an interesting SF movie of people trying to deal with a solar system level catastrophe and the second half is a bad monster movie.

Weapons's second half is better then that but not as good as its own first half.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

28 Odysseus is my favorite character in the whole Trojan War saga.

The only one who really seemed to have a good head on his shoulders. The opposite of that lunkheaded crybaby Achilles.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

29 Doubt I would go see it

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (Ia/+0)

30 Saw another interesting video last night claiming that features films are currently transition in real time from being mainstream entertainment to being nothing more than "zombie art forms" like ballet and opera -- technically the formats of ballet and opera still exist, but they merely stumble forward like zombies, propped up by a few die-hard aficionados, and always lose money -- only wealthy donors keep the formats alive.

I'd say that was accurate -- within a couple years, "going to the cinema" will be as esoteric and rare as "going to the opera" is today.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (oraVG)

31 No one can top Wishbone's Odysseus, IMO.

"I am Poseidon, RULER OF THE SEAS!"

"I am Odysseus, floating on this raft."

Posted by: pookysgirl grew up on PBS at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (Wt5PA)

32 I toured Troy a month ago. It's pretty underwhelming. Go to Ephesus instead.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (Riz8t)

33 Fuck Matt Damon.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy

Again?

Posted by: Ben Affleck at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (fryM6)

34 I thought someone had goof spoofed parodied Nolan.

Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (uQzkA)

35 I think Damon is a good actor in the right role but I think he's been miscast multiple times. I hated him as Jason Bourne. He was great in Mr Rippley.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (KDPiq)

36 ODYSSEUS!

Posted by: ODYSSEUS at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (dK+Kv)

37 >>>Weapons's second half is better then that but not as good as its own first half.

I give them credit because they wrote themselves into a corner but then just brave-faced their way out of it through WTF audacity. No, not as good as the first half, but it's a horror movie, no one is going to accept dread and unanswered questions. Well, I might. 90% of the audience would feel cheated.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (1wjle)

38 We all float down here.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (viF8m)

39 Saw another interesting video last night claiming that features films are currently transition in real time from being mainstream entertainment to being nothing more than "zombie art forms" like ballet and opera -- technically the formats of ballet and opera still exist, but they merely stumble forward like zombies, propped up by a few die-hard aficionados, and always lose money -- only wealthy donors keep the formats alive.

I'd say that was accurate -- within a couple years, "going to the cinema" will be as esoteric and rare as "going to the opera" is today.

Interesting - and probably true.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (Riz8t)

40 Most recent cinema giggle: Now You See Me. Woody Harrelson, "The gummies must have kicked in."

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (YlWIZ)

41 Fuck Matt Damon.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy

Again?
Posted by: Ben Affleck

I would have socked that as "the Bear."

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

42 "Weapons" was one of two movies I watched this year that were released this year, and aside from the gay image of an AR-15 in a dream? sequence it was fine.
"Drop" was the other one. Excellent suspense.

If you recall it had 217 on it. The best explanation I've seen is that the point of the image is to argue the witch has 2 adults and 17 children as weapons.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (sKqQm)

43 No movies to comment upon but

Finally ended up watching season 1 of Brokenwood Mysteries. Fairly dark and grim at times but realistic portrayals of ordinary people.

Different vibe than the boring repeated locked room mysteries that became overload on the Paradise series and spinoffs. Jonathan Creek, although with a very clever premise, eventually overloaded on that as well. Being clever rather than good acting.

Since Benedict Cumberbunch probably has little interest in extending the Sherlock! series, if such has to be rebooted, Alan Davies might make a good Sherlock.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (WDjG6)

44 I would have socked that as "the Bear."

I thought that was Leonardo DeCaprio.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

45 Yes that is something. Fo sure

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (qPv0v)

46 They made a mistake not casting Sydney Sweeney and calling it Supermammaries.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (nljXp)

47 >>>I'd say that was accurate -- within a couple years, "going to the cinema" will be as esoteric and rare as "going to the opera" is today.

yup

Theaters will become a high-end but niche thing. Alamo Drafthouse is probably a good model going forward.

I can't stress how much I didn't mind paying $18.50 per ticket for a movie (Wake Up Dead Man) that I kind of hated. the experience was still good.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (1wjle)

48 >Seen anything worth recommending?

"Die My Love" was unspeakably bad.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (rJ48h)

49 I liked Troy with Brad Pitt. I think he's an underrated actor because of being a pretty boy.

I always thought he should have gotten an Oscar for Kalifornia.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (KDPiq)

50 I think Damon is a good actor in the right role but I think he's been miscast multiple times. I hated him as Jason Bourne. He was great in Mr Rippley.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (KDPiq)

I loved what happened to him in Interstellar.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (dK+Kv)

51 I thought that was Leonardo DeCaprio.
Posted by: Archimedes

Eh, maybe. I can't keep these whippersnapper actors straight.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

52 Matt Damon can be ok as a secondary character but he usually sucks as a lead.

Also he plays a surprisingly good sneaky asshole as seen in Interstellar.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

53 >>>42 "Weapons" was one of two movies I watched this year that were released this year, and aside from the gay image of an AR-15 in a dream? sequence it was fine.

i totally didn't even see that. TBH, I was a bad movie watcher and mostly listened through the part with Julia Garner. The first half hour was "screen friendly" for me.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (1wjle)

54
I heard somebody a while back quip that Brad Pitt was a character actor trapped in the body of a leading man.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (w6EFb)

55 I'm waiting for Sheep Detective to show up next May. But I'll wait for the DVD.

Theaters set the volume too high.

Nothing personal to all us Filthy Casuals ...

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (3ZUWJ)

56 Dune 2 was the last movie I even *considered* going to a theater to see.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

57 MATT. DAAAMON.

Posted by: MATT DAAAMON at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (mlg/3)

58 Wonder Bread Man

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (pkeXY)

59 Re movie related, on Insty,

"The Warner Bros. board of directors has rejected Paramount’s bid multiple times, opting instead to go with an offer from Netflix, which WBD says is more valuable. The board also said Paramount has misrepresented itself to WBD shareholders, calling into question the legitimacy of the deal’s “illusory” proposed financing.

To counteract that critique, Paramount said Oracle founder Larry Ellison – the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison – will guarantee all $40.4 billion of the equity he’s putting up to finance the $78 billion deal. That’s a big guarantee, putting Larry Ellison on the hook for about a sixth of his roughly $250 billion net worth if something falls through."

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (WDjG6)

60 They can't try complex meta level introspection about super heros like Alan Moore f'd up and did because we might get the wrong idea and come to different interpretations and that isn't allowed.

So, it all has to be trite on the nose destruction of the myth and hero concept that they fire directly into our stupid male brains.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (3uBP9)

61 Odysseus at the beach, addressing his crew:
"And now men, I call on you to join me as we begin our great odyssey. "
Sailor raises hand: "Excuse me, what's an Odyssey?"
Odysseus: "It is a long and difficult journey, so full of dangers that only the leader will survive."
Sailor: "Oh Okay thanks. Wait what???"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (uWKK8)

62 I am waiting on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die with Sam Rockwell. It should be out in February

The perils of going back in time to change the future

https://youtu.be/xY48IkB9oIQ

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (rbvCR)

63 >>>I liked Troy with Brad Pitt.

the duel with Hector was great. Effective and really showed what a combat monster Achilles was.

I don't remember having seen a spear-fight before. As Schola Gladitoria always reminds everyone, before firearms, most battle deaths were caused by the spear.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (1wjle)

64 I liked weapons also, but (spoiler alter) the climax scene with the kids at the end was just absurd and sort of took me out of it.

Half the theater was belly laughing when I saw it.

I still feel it’s worth seeing

Posted by: Maroon at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (wP3Cr)

65 well most battle deaths were caused by infection but you get what I mean

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (1wjle)

66 Better choices for starring role here I think:

Christian Bale (irrespective of him being a world class asshole)
Colin Farrell
Gerard Butler

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (sKqQm)

67 My recommendation is an older movie but with AI being one of the biggest news stories today, I think
Her is perfect to be watched today.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (KDPiq)

68 >>>Odysseus at the beach, addressing his crew:
"And now men, I call on you to join me as we begin our great odyssey. "
Sailor raises hand: "Excuse me, what's an Odyssey?"
Odysseus: "It is a long and difficult journey, so full of dangers that only the leader will survive."
Sailor: "Oh Okay thanks. Wait what???"

"The captain's naming things after himself now?"

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (1wjle)

69 32 I toured Troy a month ago. It's pretty underwhelming. Go to Ephesus instead.
Posted by: Archimedes

Schliemann oversold it, for glory.

"I FOUND TROY!!!"

Except it was just a random rather small Bronze Age provincial town. Not the center of a vast civilization. Hundreds of other archaeological sites are bigger, more impressive and had better artifacts.

To this day, it's not even clear which civilization or culture "Troy" was part of. Kind of an outlier village.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (oraVG)

70 I thought that was Leonardo DeCaprio.

I always figured they were the same person double-dipping like Kurt Russell and Jeff Bridges or Frank Zappa and Leon Redbone.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (3nLb4)

71
How do we like The Carpenters' Christmas songs?

The one that goes merry Christmas is frequently played.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (CWez5)

72 To counteract that critique, Paramount said Oracle founder Larry Ellison – the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison – will guarantee all $40.4 billion of the equity he’s putting up to finance the $78 billion deal. That’s a big guarantee, putting Larry Ellison on the hook for about a sixth of his roughly $250 billion net worth if something falls through."

Could be worse. Could be the Graham family, who refused to see WaPo for about $4B, then ended up selling it to Bezos for, IIRC, something like $250M.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (Riz8t)

73 Theaters set the volume too high.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (3ZUWJ)

Seriously! I saw the Lord of the Rings trilogy when it was re-released to theaters last summer. The volume was deafening! Fortunately they turned it down for the second film. My ears are bad enough as it is.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (k9OZB)

74 Bad take, Ace. Wonder Man is an Avenger in the 70s.

He was co-created by Jack Kirby and his first appearance is in 1964.

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (krQz2)

75 didn't Colin Farrell pay Achilles ? were there 2 Troy movies ?

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (g47mK)

76 I don't remember having seen a spear-fight before. As Schola Gladitoria always reminds everyone, before firearms, most battle deaths were caused by the spear.
Posted by: ace

Pisses me off to no end that the douchebags in Walking Dead didn't figure to use spears until the last seasons.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (mlg/3)

77 I've heard Die Hard is a pretty good Christmas movie.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (0sNs1)

78 Wonder Bread

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (v0R5T)

79 *play not pay..

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (g47mK)

80 Brad Pitt at some pointed learned to act even though he mostly got by on his looks in his earlier movies, kind of like Leo D.

He was still getting there in Troy but did better then I would have thought he could of at the time.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (sKqQm)

81 Gerard Butler was awesome as Leonidas in "300".
Colin Farrell isn't as physical.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (MNCvZ)

82 They should work on the lighting in the trailer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (MoRvC)

83 You know what's something?

Ernst Lubitsch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wnBxEUMERQ

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

84 Is Wonder Man also an Amazon?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

85 > I think Damon is a good actor in the right role but I think he's been miscast multiple times. I hated him as Jason Bourne.

What was wrong with his Jason Bourne? In the books he's supposed to look ordinary. The only think I can think of is he doesn't really seem, "haunted."

Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (Yp6az)

86 Pointy sticks are an effective weapon. and don't require much training.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (vFG9F)

87 "The captain's naming things after himself now?"
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (1wjle)

—————

Well, I’m the only one who survives so I kinda get to do what I want.

Posted by: Odysseus at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (u73oe)

88 didn't Colin Farrell pay Achilles ? were there 2 Troy movies ?

I think he played Alexander the Great.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (Riz8t)

89
I watched Extraction last night. Kinda good. Kinda recommend if you're in the mood for action.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (CWez5)

90 Critical Drinker praised the new David movie, based on the Bible history of David.

Of course it has the part where he uses a sling to take down Goliath, but it also shows him getting older and becoming a king.

Basically he said "it's pretty darn good even if you aren't religious". Not the highest praise he has ever given a movie, but good enough I want to see this in a theater if I can.

Posted by: mr_jack at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (LNPSJ)

91 >>>4 Bad take, Ace. Wonder Man is an Avenger in the 70s.
He was co-created by Jack Kirby and his first appearance is in 1964.

I remember him looking like a dope on Avengers covers (and West Coat Avengers covers, and Great Lakes Avengers covers) in the 80s. there were so many lame avengers, like Tigra. or captain marvel.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (1wjle)

92 I am waiting on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die with Sam Rockwell. It should be out in February

The perils of going back in time to change the future

https://youtu.be/xY48IkB9oIQ
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (r

Rockwell has become a favorite.

Seven Psychopaths was great and also Mr Right.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (KDPiq)

93 The one that goes merry Christmas is frequently played.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (CWez5)
---
Yes, the only song in history that goes "Merry Christmas".

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (krQz2)

94 Even before I knew his leftwing politics, I’ve always thought Matt Damon had a very punchable face

Posted by: Maroon at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (wP3Cr)

95 Pointy sticks are an effective weapon. and don't require much training.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (vFG9F)

So is a tiger.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (k9OZB)

96 I liked Matt Damon in The Martian. Good movie. Not scientifically perfect but fun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (MoRvC)

97 A good MATT DAMON movie is any where he dies horrifically and extraneously early on in the run time.

"Yeah, it doesn't really drive the plot but we thought you'd all like to see matt die again, so, enjoy"

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (3uBP9)

98 Schliemann oversold it, for glory.

"I FOUND TROY!!!"

Except it was just a random rather small Bronze Age provincial town. Not the center of a vast civilization. Hundreds of other archaeological sites are bigger, more impressive and had better artifacts.

To this day, it's not even clear which civilization or culture "Troy" was part of. Kind of an outlier village.

There are three versions of the Trojan Horse in the area. Two are pretty basic an crappy. The best one by far is in the nearby town/port. It's...the one from the movie, which the makers donated.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (Riz8t)

99 The story of the Odyssey and the Iliad are kind of interesting.

They don't present the Greeks as pure awesome heros that go destroy the enemy with honor because of their inherent awesomeness but quite a range of personalities and leave open the question of whether the war was worth fighting at all.

And here Odysseys is the most interesting character because as "wisest of the Greeks" he didn't even want to go and tried his best to avoid it

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (sKqQm)

100 92 I am waiting on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die with Sam Rockwell. It should be out in February

The perils of going back in time to change the future

https://youtu.be/xY48IkB9oIQ
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (r

Rockwell has become a favorite.

Seven Psychopaths was great and also Mr Right.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (KDPiq)

======

It is the return of Gore Verbinski, the director of the gothic horror masterpiece The Cure for Wellness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

101 I think Damon is a good actor in the right role but I think he's been miscast multiple times. I hated him as Jason Bourne. He was great in Mr Rippley.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (KDPiq)

Not sure I believe that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (uQesX)

102 I've heard Die Hard is a pretty good Christmas movie.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Also the first Lethal Weapon movie.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (fryM6)

103 I imagine banging someone with a super vagina would be an unforgettable experience.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (8CIFn)

104
matt damon fucking sucks

What's wrong with you people?

damon has only one emotion: I am a big dink.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:03 PM (CWez5)

105 Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 05:03 PM (u73oe)

106 >> Is This Something?

I don’t see any young cooter, so no.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 22, 2025 05:03 PM (f4tQo)

107 favorite exchange in Troy. Bear in mind, Odysseus is played by the great Sean Bean.

Odysseus is telling the other kings that they should probably go home because king Menelachus (?) was killed.

Sean Bean: We came here to get Menelachs's wife... we won't need her any longer.

Agamemnon: How dare you insult my brother's memory!

Sean Bean: it is no insult to say a dead man... is dead.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (1wjle)

108 I thought that Nobody 2 was pretty bad.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (jc0TO)

109 >>>105 Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.

oh yeah....

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (1wjle)

110 Given zombie's recent revelatory comments about the Romans and their definition of mammary protuberance volume, I believe that it's fair to say that Russ Meyer had way more depth as an auteur than almost all others.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)

111 I'm Matt Damon!

Posted by: Matt Damon at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (9ipOP)

112 109 >>>105 Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.

oh yeah....

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (1wjle)

======

Silent Hill has entered the chat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

113 liked Matt Damon in The Martian. Good movie. Not scientifically perfect but fun
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (MoRvC)

That's the biggest in your face DEI movie for me.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (KDPiq)

114 The only thing worse than Matt Damon, would be Ben Affleck. He must have blown someone to get The Accountant roles. Good script, terrible casting.

Posted by: Bill Clintons Wiener at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (f4tQo)

115 Anything Korean is better than anything Hollywood.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (/lPRQ)

116 Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

REPENT HERETICS

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (3ZUWJ)

117 I looked up Wonder Man which is a miniseries. One of the stars is Olivia Thirlby who's kind of cute. Bio says she's bisexual and was involved with Ellen Page before Ellen had an adadicktomy. I'm so confused

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (MoRvC)

118 I think he played Alexander the Great.

===

Right!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (g47mK)

119 Saving Private Ryan. Damon and Hanks. Worst cast ever.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (nljXp)

120
Carpenters at Christmas 1977 Complete TV Special

https://is.gd/2fbN1V

Harvey Korman is a guest star, if that excites you.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (CWez5)

121
Is Wonder Man also an Amazon?
Posted by: toby928(c)

He delivers for Amazon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (pkeXY)

122 I liked Matt Damon in The Martian. Good movie. Not scientifically perfect but fun
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM

Michael Pena gets all the good lines.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (jc0TO)

123 Christopher Nolan is a hack.

Slightly better than Roland Emmerich and M. Night Shamalamadingdong.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (dGCAG)

124 >>Seen anything worth recommending?

Not a movie, but a series on Prime -- Deadloch.

Thought I wouldn't like it based upon the write-up, but it's great. And hilarious at times, especially the jokes about lesbians.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (Y1sOo)

125 I think Sean Bean must put the "kill" clause in his contract!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (g47mK)

126 Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.
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Probably cut for time.

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (krQz2)

127 Brad Pitt at some pointed learned to act even though he mostly got by on his looks in his earlier movies, kind of like Leo D.

He was still getting there in Troy but did better then I would have thought he could of at the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
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I'm ready for another close-up!

Posted by: Brad Pitt in Troy at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (9ipOP)

128

I heard there's a new superhero out of Hollywood.

Gay Man.

His anus opens up so wide that he can attack with it and kill other bad superheros and young cabana boys.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (och2J)

129 > Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.

Some more movies in which Bean's character doesn't die: National Treasure, Flightplan, Silent Hill, Percy Jackson Lighting Thief, The Martian, Possessor

Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (Yp6az)

130 I was wanting Menelaus to take out that simp Paris

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (sDNVV)

131 No color everything is grey, Asian's as Greek's, African's as Greek's, Athena a Blond Blue eye God is now black, it's so dumb and retarded. I love the old Technocolor movies where they try and get it right.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (FCrpy)

132 The only thing worse than Matt Damon, would be Ben Affleck. He must have blown someone to get The Accountant roles. Good script, terrible casting.
Posted by: Bill Clintons Wiener at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (f4tQo)

He's a better director than actor but his brother is a very very good actor imo.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (KDPiq)

133 Well, Taskmaster's Champion of Champions just dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rx_uGQ2PSQ

Champions of seasons 16-20 facing off! For wackiness!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (GBKbO)

134 I like some of Nolan's stuff , but his Dunkirk annoyed me

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (MoRvC)

135 I thought that Nobody 2 was pretty bad.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (jc0TO)

Odenkirk is gonna kick your ass for saying that.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (dGCAG)

136
Bookmark this if you need Christmas music:

Carpenters 1978 Christmas Portrait

https://is.gd/Aqa8GQ

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (CWez5)

137 #91 ace

There was a time when the Avengers swelled up to a dozen or 20 members. They weren't all A-listers. Saying "he was once in the Avengers" is not strong praise.

There was in in-universe event where they assembled all the Avengers and said "we have to downsize the team, this is too crazy". I have that comic somewhere, probably.

I totally agree that Wonder Man is a D-lister. I looked up his Wiki page and his history is moderately interesting, more than I expected, but still he had zero impact on the fans let alone pop culture.

No little kid ever took lunch to school in a Wonder Man lunchbox.

Posted by: mr_jack at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (LNPSJ)

138 Harvey Korman is a guest star, if that excites you.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (CWez5)
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Does Harvey Korman excite you?

Does explosive diarrhea excite you?

Posted by: zombie Don Rickles at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (9ipOP)

139 that simp Paris
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM

He's ... not very sympathetic.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)

140
Nobody I was bad, too. It went from kinda good to fucking stupid.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (CWez5)

141 I never heard of Wonder Man. Don’t guess I’ve missed anything.

Wonder Man was a sort of Booster Gold before there was a Booster Gold. In the sense of being about PR, not in the sense of being a rich time traveler. Or what Spider-Man would have been had he stayed in show business.

It’s the perfect superhero movie for Hollywood, as it literally could take place on movie sets or television sets.

It’s also guaranteed to suck for anyone not in Hollywood.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (EXyHK)

142 Even though I like Odysseus, I've never been able to make it all the way through the Odyssey. A little too unfocused for me. Jumps around too much in time and space.

The Iliad is a much more compact work, with the whole thing being set in the environs of Troy, and in a much shorter timeframe.

I was able to do the Classic Comics version of the Odyssey when I was a kid, however.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

143 That's the biggest in your face DEI movie for me.
Posted by: Opinion fact

That and the complete ball-washing of the CCP.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)

144 Good basic breakdown of "Weapons". It's one of the better horror movies this year. "Good Boy" and "Presence" are lower key which is both good and bad for horror.

"The Tale of Silyan" is a barely disguised docudrama about a white stork and the Macedonian farmer that loves him. Solid low-key recommendation.

I've not seen any good "bombastic" movies in a while. Lotsa luck with documentaries: Blum (about the guy who ran Yugoslavia's biggest industry); Rebel with a Clause (a woman goes around setting up a "grammar helpdesk" on city streets across the country); Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost (Ben Stiller's documentary about his parents, surprisingly sensitive); Donn of Tiki (blast of a movie about the guy who invented the Tiki aesthetic/ethos).

A little hard up for interesting narrative films but HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is back in theaters for limited runs!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (asXVI)

145 "The captain's naming things after himself now?"
Posted by: ace

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Meanwhile, in Troy...

"I dunno, it could be a Trojan horse."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (pS434)

146 138 Harvey Korman is a guest star, if that excites you.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (CWez5)
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Does Harvey Korman excite you?

Does explosive diarrhea excite you?

Posted by: zombie Don Rickles at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (9ipOP)

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Well, he was one of the best parts of the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (GBKbO)

147 oh and to answer the question: No, Wonder Man isn't an Amazon. They just stole the name, not the backstory. I think he's some kind of android or something. But with a twist, like he has an alien soul inside him or something else Gaytarded.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (1wjle)

148

Hey, this might be an improvement. You can actually hear people speak in the trailer.

Wonder if in the movie theatre you can make out what the main characters are saying in every scene.

Would be great.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (och2J)

149 There is a Hittite tablet we've recovered that mentions one Piyama-Radu who is an adventurer that is causing the Hittites trouble - so the Great King of the Hittites married his daughter to a Greek king to get them to go to war against Piyama-Radu.

Since his activities were in Wilusa (Troy) among other places, this could be the same conflict described in the Iliad.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

150 DogeDesigner@cb_doge

https://tinyurl.com/yjz9h9a4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (YubK1)

151 Welp, I would like to think that I could make better movies than the wot rot that is currently out there. But as no one has yet trusted me with billions of dollars and the director's chair, we will just never know.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (3ZUWJ)

152 Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Also Ronin.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (fryM6)

153 Most interesting film I saw in 2025 was Amanita Pestilens, a bizarre 1963 Canadian film, and only the second Canadian film ever made in color. It was thought to be a lost film until just a couple months ago when a pristine high-res version cropped up online without explanation.

The colors and set design are really eye-caching, but the plot is trivial to the point of absurdity: A guy who's proud of his suburban lawn goes nuts when invasive mushrooms start sprouting up all over it.

But the reason to watch it is that this film was the debut performance by a 19-year-old Geneviève Bujold, and she is SCORCHING during her brief times on screen. You never saw anybody so cute/sexy in your life. And it was a very early example of the "manic pixie dreamgirl" trope

Another bizarre aspect mof the film is that every scene was filmed twice -- first with dialogue in French, and then with the same actors reading their lines in English. Two versions o the film were released, but so far only the French version has been re-discovered. (Thank god for auto-translated subtitltes.)

Anyway: semi-recommended.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (oraVG)

154 >>>There was in in-universe event where they assembled all the Avengers and said "we have to downsize the team, this is too crazy". I have that comic somewhere, probably.

then in the 2000s they made it even bigger but added everyone, including A-listers like Spider-Man and Wolverine and solid B-listers like Daredevil and Beast. the whole marvel universe were avengers.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (1wjle)

155 Since this is a mainstream post, I'm gonna repeat what I said over the weekend:

"Honey Don't" contains the best gay scene of the year.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (dGCAG)

156 Meanwhile, in Troy...

"I dunno, it could be a Trojan horse."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (pS434)

—————

Nominated for thread winner.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (u73oe)

157 Why do they have to make all of these movies so dark? Is that all they have left to try?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (0N4FZ)

158 29 > Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.

Some more movies in which Bean's character doesn't die: National Treasure, Flightplan, Silent Hill, Percy Jackson Lighting Thief, The Martian, Possessor
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (Yp6az)

The Sharpe movies which is a Highly underrated series or Movies. They were shot as movies. He was Richard Sharpe even the Writer of the Novels stated it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (FCrpy)

159 Trump approves construction of battleships.

Posted by: Bert G at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (VARTN)

160 Romcom recommendations

Going the Distance
She's Out of My League

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (KDPiq)

161
***President Livestream***

https://is.gd/Jc7iOv

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (CWez5)

162 But with a twist, like he has an alien soul inside him or something else Gaytarded.

He is filled with power. Literally. Poke him and he explodes.

Seriously. It’s difficult to poke a hole in him because he’s powerful, but if you manage it, he is going to die and take out a city with him. Fighting supervillains is not a good career choice.

Note: this is all remembered from comics read decades ago, that I can’t be bothered to look up.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (EXyHK)

163 >>2 Troy is one of the few movies where Sean Bean doesn’t die.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Also Ronin.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

but he suffered a fate worse than death, cucked by that greasy retard Robert DeNiro

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)

164 The only thing worse than Matt Damon, would be Ben Affleck. He must have blown someone to get The Accountant roles. Good script, terrible casting.

Ben Affleck did surprisingly fine as Batman in the recent movies.

The script sucked but that wasn't his fault.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (sKqQm)

165 >>>Seriously. It’s difficult to poke a hole in him because he’s powerful, but if you manage it, he is going to die and take out a city with him. Fighting supervillains is not a good career choice.

like Captain Atom?

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)

166 A movie based on the most prolific Allied (US) submarine, USS Thresher SS-200 (not the nuke boat from the 60's) would be interesting.

To me.

Laid down in '39 by Electric Boat in Groton, CT (home of 1 of 2 nuke boat bases in the US) she got 15 battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation.

An American version of Das Boot which I first saw in it's native German. With hot chick to translate for me.

Her adventures obviously were not "Midway" level action. But still...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (NwnyJ)

167 "Honey Don't" contains the best gay scene of the year.
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"Drive-Away Dykes" killed all future Coen Bros movies for me, maybe.

I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)

168
I just tuned into the President just in time to hear him say, "...nobody's seen anything like it."

He needs to stop saying that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (CWez5)

169 Those other two tar ships we've seized out in the Gulf.

Are we sending them to Houston?
Are they going to contribute to our oil reserve?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (YubK1)

170 that simp Paris
Posted by: Ben Had

Hey, if you had the hottest chick in the world, you'd be p***y-whipped, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (77rzZ)

171
I was able to do the Classic Comics version of the Odyssey when I was a kid, however.
Posted by: Bulg

I saw the Kirk Douglas version.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (pkeXY)

172 Trump says the new "battleships" will have 100x the firepower of any battleship ever built. Picture on the podium next to Trump is labeled Trump Class USS Defiant. Ship depicted has hull number 1.

Posted by: Bert G at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (VARTN)

173 Weapons is memorable

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (znREB)

174 165 like Captain Atom?

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)

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Up and at them?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (GBKbO)

175 Also Ronin.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (fryM6)

My vote for best car chase scene movie.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (KDPiq)

176 >>.The Sharpe movies which is a Highly underrated series or Movies. They were shot as movies. He was Richard Sharpe even the Writer of the Novels stated it.

i tried to get into those but I think I was expecting something like Flashman. Sharpe's kind of boring!

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (1wjle)

177 Unpopular opinion:

Is the Odyssey going to be as boring as the original? Because the original is a big bore.

If it's 3 hours, it'll feel like 6.

Also, in keeping with Nolan's proclivities, I hope it's filmed in Mumblevision. Not hearing the dialogue clearly is part of the fun.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (L8SXF)

178
Livestream for our new Warmonger President:

https://is.gd/Jc7iOv

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (CWez5)

179 THE CROSSING, about Washington crossing the Delaware to kill some Hessian's at Christmas, good movie it's on youtube, it's a tv movie but well done

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (FCrpy)

180 167 "Drive-Away Dykes" killed all future Coen Bros movies for me, maybe.

I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)

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Well, it's just Joel. Ethan has nothing to do with the recent lesbian caper films.

It seems like...Joel may be the dumb one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (GBKbO)

181

Trump announces Trump Class battleships.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (pkeXY)

182 #84 toby928(c)

> Is Wonder Man also an Amazon?

Nope, totally different origin and backstory. A lab infused him with "ion-based" powers. Later his brain scan was used to help create the Vision, plus he got blown up. Scarlet Witch kind of resurrected him but he was different and his powers were a bit different, then later still he became closer to his original human form and that's where he is now.

Also, in-universe he works as a stuntman. He can just do dangerous things without safety gear since he's invulnerable. If The Boys ever does a character based on him he'll probably be like Stuntman Mike from Death Proof.

Posted by: mr_jack at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (LNPSJ)

183 Back in the day, Iron Man was strictly B team. I started reading the comic back in the 80s because he was one of Dad's favorites. He thought his way out of problems. Slept with hot women. Etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (7yt4l)

184 Good basic breakdown of "Weapons". It's one of the better horror movies this year. "Good Boy" and "Presence" are lower key which is both good and bad for horror.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (asXVI)

Have you seen "Bring Her Back"?

It was sorta paired with "Weapons," I guess for somewhat obvious reasons. It's an Aussie film.

Might be better than "Weapons," I'm not sure whether I think so or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)

185
Donnie Two Scoops: We're gonna build battleships again. Biggest battleships ever, like nothing you've even seen before. YUGE. Luxuriously lethal.

Also, even bigger carriers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (w6EFb)

186 Any of you seen Rhinoceros ( 1974) with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel?

A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (jc0TO)

187 Not a movie, but a series on Prime -- Deadloch.

Thought I wouldn't like it based upon the write-up, but it's great. And hilarious at times, especially the jokes about lesbians.
Posted by: one hour sober

I watched that several months ago and thought it was quite amusing in places.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (fryM6)

188 that simp Paris
Posted by: Ben Had

Hey, if you had the hottest chick in the world, you'd be p***y-whipped, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (77rzZ)

Little known fact. Her sister only rated 500 ships.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (KDPiq)

189 Hey, if you had the hottest chick in the world, you'd be p***y-whipped, too.
Posted by: Bulg

I mean, if you were a guy, Ben Had.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (77rzZ)

190 >>>"Honey Don't" contains the best gay scene of the year.
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"Drive-Away Dykes" killed all future Coen Bros movies for me, maybe.

I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.

...

right but these aren't coen brothers movies, just one of the brothers. They split up. Someone said that one brother had a lurid b-movie sensibility, and the other one was more arthouse, and they needed each other to make good movies. Now the one guy is just making trash movies. (or so I heard, I haven't seen these two movies.)

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)

191 like Captain Atom?

If you mean the DC Captain Atom, I don’t remember him much except for the jokey Justice League that was funny for a few years and then well outlived itself. Giffen? Whatever it was, I don’t remember that Captain Atom being a barely-contained balloon of power. I think he actually ran some version of the League for a while? JLI?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (EXyHK)

192 The BBC did a take on the fall of Troy recently. And yes they went totally DEI all over it with a black Zeus and Achilles. Though the most apart is Frances O'Connor as a hot Hecuba outshining Bella Dayne's Helen...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (sKqQm)

193
Enough with the military shit.
Where are the Infrastructure Bills?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (CWez5)

194 Trump announcing we are going to build new battleships. Cue leftist shrieking in 3,2, 1

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (MoRvC)

195 "Nolan is doing the Industry Standard race-swapping, but... I do like most Nolan movies, and hope this is good."

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I think Nolan is my favorite director. I liked Following and most everything he's done. Speaking of race-swapping though, my dark horse favorite of his is Tenet. Which I originally didn't wanna see cuz it was coming out in COVID / wake of St. George of Floyd, and I totally thought it was Nolan doing DEI. Then watching it, thought it was awesome and John David Washington is a real good actor (thanks to his dad probly; and still think it's Robert Pattison's best work). Watched it again last night and, hearing the urban / rap track for it, started thinking maybe this is Nolan DEI, but Nolan's so good that even his DEI work is quality...

Anyway, Matt Damon's annoying. Oppenheimer was ok but as much as Nolan's Odyssey sounds awesome, Damon as Odysseus for 2.5-3 hours feels intolerable...

Posted by: bearski at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (Bhsk7)

196 I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)

*nods knowingly* No "Barton Fink" feeling.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (jibVG)

197
Is the captain of the USS Defiant gonna be named Sisko?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (w6EFb)

198 Saw David. Thought it was great. Animation, 2 great songs. Recommend it for family outing.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 22, 2025 05:17 PM (TD894)

199 >>Nope, totally different origin and backstory. A lab infused him with "ion-based" powers. Later his brain scan was used to help create the Vision, plus he got blown up.

Ohhhhh... that's why I misremembered HIM being an android. Right, his brain was used to make the android Vision.

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:17 PM (1wjle)

200 > Matt Damon looks too stupid to be Shrewd Odysseus

"Sacker of Cities"?

More like "Sipper of Penises".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:17 PM (IG3/x)

201 However hot Helen might or might not have been any kids you had with her would have had a claim on the throne of Sparta (before Sparta went all Lycurgus-y)

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (sKqQm)

202 "Drive-Away Dykes" killed all future Coen Bros movies for me, maybe.

I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)

I haven't seen "Drive-Away Dykes." Not sure now whether I should.

"Honey Don't" is pretty good. It borders on trying to be noir. Sort of. It's a decent Whodoneit.

And I just don't know how anyone could turn down a lesbo scene with Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (dGCAG)

203
Our Big beautiful Battleships are gonna have rail guns and lasers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (w6EFb)

204 >>Trump approves construction of battleships

Does he know I'm right here.

Posted by: USS Alabama floating in Mobile Bay at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (Y1sOo)

205 26 >>> Hmm, the Odyssey without gods and magic ?

I liked Troy. They also did the No Gods, No Magic thing.
Posted by: ace

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Would totally rather Brad Pitt do Odysseus instead of Damon...

Posted by: bearski at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (Bhsk7)

206 Matt Damon was quite the traveller back in the day.

First he was fighting at the Great Wall in China, now he’s paddling around the ocean for decades during the Trojan Wars.

I’m not convinced of his Greekness.
Always took him for a Gaul.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (6ydKt)

207 Best lesbian movie by far is Bound.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)

208 Something I ran across while reading about the translations from the Hittite tablets; one set of tablets was correspondence with an outpost western coastal city of theirs. The local governor had written saying he was having a bad time with some sea raiders, and asked for more troops to help him fight them off. The central government in Hattusha said we're sorry, got too many enemies off to the east right now, all our troops are going there, hope things work out for you. Last letter was from the governor saying things were getting really bad, could they please reconsider? That was the end.
In Hittite, the name of the city was Wilios.
The old name of Troy, reason for Homer's story being called the Iliad, was Ilios.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (uWKK8)

209 President could put a link at his White House website to his public addresses. Instead of having his followers chase links.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (YubK1)

210 NBC tried that "superhero-adjacent workplace comedy" back when superhero movies were generally well-received and failed bigly. I can't imagine Wonder Man will do much better.

Also, have we hit the point where it's taken longer than Matt Damon's lifetime for him to be rescued/get home in the combined movies he's been in?

Posted by: Octochicken at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (oCS0o)

211 thanks to his dad probly; and still think it's Robert Pattison's best work

I'd argue Pattison's best work is The Rover. Turns out he can act when he isn't in Twillight...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (sKqQm)

212 205 26 >>> Hmm, the Odyssey without gods and magic ?

I liked Troy. They also did the No Gods, No Magic thing.
Posted by: ace

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I've read that there's definitely gods and magic in Nolan's movie.

Charlize Theron let is slip that she was playing a witch (can't remember who). I think there are cast lists that indicate people playing gods (Zendaya is one, I think).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (GBKbO)

213 >>>, I don’t remember that Captain Atom being a barely-contained balloon of power.

yeah that's what he is, he's a containment suit holding near-infinite nuclear power inside. I think it's a plot hook used from time to time where his suit gets breached and he has to get to a very desolate area to blow up without killing people

(he gets better)

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (1wjle)

214 Wonder Man seems like a role Tim Walz was born to play...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (jibVG)

215 Battleships? Dems might get on board if you name one the USS George Floyd. It will go down, but it will take you with it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (Dv3i1)

216 >>>
Charlize Theron let is slip that she was playing a witch (can't remember who). I think there are cast lists that indicate people playing gods (Zendaya is one, I think).

oh that's right

zendaya is Aphrodite. whatev's. (or maybe athena. also whatev's)

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:20 PM (1wjle)

217 Now the one guy is just making trash movies. (or so I heard, I haven't seen these two movies.)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)

I thought you LIKED lesbo pron.

Freakin' prudes.....

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:20 PM (dGCAG)

218 Well, it's just Joel. Ethan has nothing to do with the recent lesbian caper films.

It seems like...Joel may be the dumb one.
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Yeeeeeeah. It's funny but it may be that the, uh, "earthier" aspect of their movies may be entirely due to Joel whose overarchingly poor taste is kept in check by Ethan's loftier visions.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (asXVI)

219 207 Best lesbian movie by far is Bound.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)

isn't that on some pay per view website?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (uWKK8)

220 Our Big beautiful Battleships are gonna have rail guns and lasers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM

Wave-Motion Gun?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)

221 Trump: "I'll be involved in the design (of our new Golden Fleet) because I am a very aesthetic person."

LOL

This f'ing guy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (HXT0k)

222 218 Yeeeeeeah. It's funny but it may be that the, uh, "earthier" aspect of their movies may be entirely due to Joel whose overarchingly poor taste is kept in check by Ethan's loftier visions.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (asXVI)

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Joel should have reconnected with Sam Raimi and gone full nonsense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (GBKbO)

223 Wonder Man seems like a role Tim Walz was born to play...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Derek Hunter used a great nickname for him today: "Fraudie Murphie."

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (77rzZ)

224 > However hot Helen might or might not have been
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (sKqQm)

She was probably lucky she didn't come out looking like a bird.

I hear she did get the brain, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (IG3/x)

225
Donnie: Everywhere I go, I sell a hundred planes. And we can't make 'em fast enough. These companies need to stop this stupid stock buybacks and dividends, and invest in production facilities.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (w6EFb)

226 Of interest only to me but the pawn shop has quit carrying DVDs. Those buck apiece prices were great

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (sDNVV)

227
I'm in a place where I can't play audio. Which shipyard is building the Trump Class battleships? Or will it be south Korea?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (pS434)

228 How did nobody in the room in 1964 sit back and say, "You know, Wonder Man sounds gay AF"

Posted by: the dandy at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (8l8nW)

229 214 Wonder Man seems like a role Tim Walz was born to play...
____

Tim should be called Wonder Man. You look at him and, man, do you wonder,

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (Dv3i1)

230 STOP TRYING TO MAKE ZENDAYA AND/OR JENNA ORTEGA A THING!!!!

There, I said it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (dGCAG)

231 >>>Derek Hunter used a great nickname for him today: "Fraudie Murphie."

lol

Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (1wjle)

232 The Coen Brothers could spice things up by, you know, you know.

Posted by: Lana and Lilly Wachowski at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (jibVG)

233 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (GBKbO)

You made me go on a tangent but I thought Furiosa was better than Fury Road.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (KDPiq)

234 > Zendaya is Aphrodite. whatev's.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:20 PM (1wjle)

I don't get the whole Zendaya thing, myself.

There are plenty of good-looking black/mixed race women.

She isn't one of them.

Aphrodite? YeahNo.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (IG3/x)

235 If you mean the DC Captain Atom, I don’t remember him much except for the jokey Justice League that was funny for a few years and then well outlived itself. Giffen? Whatever it was, I don’t remember that Captain Atom being a barely-contained balloon of power. I think he actually ran some version of the League for a while? JLI?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (EXyHK)

THE ATOM was apart of the Justice Society and Captain Adam was with JLI and yes it was really funny and yes if Captain Adam's skin was pierced he could explode like an atom bomb

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (FCrpy)

236 230 STOP TRYING TO MAKE ZENDAYA AND/OR JENNA ORTEGA A THING!!!!

There, I said it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (dGCAG)

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Ortega's actually kind of interesting. She has, like, actual opinions about movies.

She went viral slightly (and my blog did as well for a hot moment) because she name-dropped Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

She's also hitched herself almost fully to Tim Burton, which is interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (GBKbO)

237 Laid down in '39 by Electric Boat in Groton, CT (home of 1 of 2 nuke boat bases in the US)

Also, the native habitat of the native-to-North-America Grotopotomus.

An American version of Das Boot which I first saw in it's native German. With hot chick to translate for me.

Her adventures obviously were not "Midway" level action. But still...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM

So did you meet the German hot chick's advances midway?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (0sNs1)

238 Nolan's movies are all bloated. I think the last one I saw that wasn't too long for its own good was "Batman Begins" 20 years ago.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (UdiE9)

239 233 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (GBKbO)

You made me go on a tangent but I thought Furiosa was better than Fury Road.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (KDPiq)

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I prefer Fury Road, but they're just very different films. Love 'em both.

Maybe someone will want to lose $200 million in a fire and hand it to George Miller to make The Wasteland.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (GBKbO)

240 I found out on my way home this afternoon that Ed Meese is still alive.

Apparently, the Heritage Foundation is having some kind of meltdown and a lot of its folks are leaving, including some part of it affiliated with Meese.

He released a statement today that he's setting up shop somewhere else for the organization.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (77rzZ)

241 >> Which shipyard is building the Trump Class battleships?

We're gonna build new yards to build all the ships, and planes, and submarines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (w6EFb)

242 Have you seen "Bring Her Back"?
...
Might be better than "Weapons," I'm not sure whether I think so or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)
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Well, "Weapons" is meant to be scary and wild and the second half, as noted, is trying for a big payoff (and hence splits the audience).

"Bring Her Back" is more in the mournful subgenre (see all the horror movies about orphanages and dead children, e.g.) so it doesn't have that severe a tone shift. It's definitely a more even film.

But of all the things that come down to taste and mood, horror and comedies do so more and harder than any other genres.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (asXVI)

243
Who?

I couldn't pick jenna tortuga out of a lineup.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (CWez5)

244 I think it's a plot hook used from time to time where his suit gets breached and he has to get to a very desolate area to blow up without killing people.

Heh. Just seems like superheroing is not your best career choice if that’s your weakness.

Was there ever a supervillain whose power was, if you hurt him he blows up and takes out the entire city?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (EXyHK)

245 She's also hitched herself almost fully to Tim Burton, which is interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (GBKbO)

Is it?

Tim Burton was interesting about 25 years ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (dGCAG)

246 DJ Jazzy Crocket and Candy Cane Owens would have an awesome podcast together.

Did you know Trump tried to kill Biden with the help of the Jews and Macron? No really he did. Here’s the proof.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (UJWr0)

247 "Battleships"

Because our Navy doesn't have the reach with their existing, or on drawing board, weapons to counter the PLAN.

And the aircraft built during Bush-Obama-Trump I can't reach targets unless the carriers move into ASBM range and get pulverized.

*But mostly because there will never be an aircraft carrier named after him. And that's a shame.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (NwnyJ)

248 Was there ever a supervillain whose power was, if you hurt him he blows up and takes out the entire city?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM

Explosive Vest Man.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (jc0TO)

249 Best lesbian movie by far is Bound.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)

isn't that on some pay per view website?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (uWKK

1996 movie with Gina Gershon and JenniferTilly.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (KDPiq)

250
Donnie said something about "super-duper subs".

Big Beautiful Battleships. Yuge Carriers and Super Duper Submarines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (w6EFb)

251 245 She's also hitched herself almost fully to Tim Burton, which is interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (GBKbO)

Is it?

Tim Burton was interesting about 25 years ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (dGCAG)

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Burton's movies are kind of meh these days, but her working almost exclusively with this guy who suddenly is getting all the money in the world to make weird things on huge scales is interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (GBKbO)

252
Wonder Man seems like a role Tim Walz was born to play...

Captain Nice

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (pkeXY)

253 230 STOP TRYING TO MAKE ZENDAYA AND/OR JENNA ORTEGA A THING!!!!

There, I said it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (dGCAG)

She's not even FUGLY just STOP with her she can only do resting Bitch face and she ruined the Dune sequel.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (FCrpy)

254 15 new subs. My buddy who works for Electric Boat is getting a nice Christmas present.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (viF8m)

255 Who?

I couldn't pick jenna tortuga out of a lineup.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (CWez5)

You wouldn't unless you put a bag on her head. What a sour puss.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (dK+Kv)

256 Building Battleships is a great idea and what America needs right now to help employ Indians via our great H1B visa program!

Posted by: Vivek R. at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (Dv3i1)

257 Would totally rather Brad Pitt do Odysseus instead of Damon...
Posted by: bearski at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (Bhsk7)

Ain't nobody wanna see that!

NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (7yt4l)

258
The Trump Admin should award 1 new nuclear power plant to each State (that want one). That would be great for the Tradesman and good for Jobs.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (CWez5)

259 Trump approves construction of battleships

The future is drones; air, land and sea.

That, and cyber attacks, GoF chimera, purchased politicians and judges and drugs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (kHd4y)

260 Would totally rather Brad Pitt do Odysseus instead of Damon...
Posted by: bearski

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The extra hell of it is, Angelina Jolie would make an awesome Penelope.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (pS434)

261
i tried to get into those but I think I was expecting something like Flashman. Sharpe's kind of boring!
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (1wjle)

Speaking of a series that absolutely needs to be filmed, but never will...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (y9nCu)

262 Our Big beautiful Battleships are gonna have rail guns and lasers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

The first country to effectively deploy sat-based energy weapons will dominate. ( also, I don't think we sail any battleships anymore, no? )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (mlg/3)

263 that simp Paris
Posted by: Ben Had

Hey, if you had the hottest chick in the world, you'd be p***y-whipped, too.

Really? I heard he was tired of her s***.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (Riz8t)

264 Well, "Weapons" is meant to be scary and wild and the second half, as noted, is trying for a big payoff (and hence splits the audience).

"Bring Her Back" is more in the mournful subgenre (see all the horror movies about orphanages and dead children, e.g.) so it doesn't have that severe a tone shift. It's definitely a more even film.

But of all the things that come down to taste and mood, horror and comedies do so more and harder than any other genres.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (asXVI)

I was cheering the climax in Weapons.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (dGCAG)

265 Best lesbian movie by far is Bound.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)

I’ll see your bound and raise you a desert hearts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (UJWr0)

266 18 Matt Damon as Odysseus? Sure. Which Kardasian is Penelope?
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)

I kinda want to see what Dan Crenshaw does with the role of Polyphemus.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (pIfcn)

267
Is jenna ortaga the same person as that audrey plaza?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (CWez5)

268
We're gonna hit $22 Trillion in investment for all this ship building.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (w6EFb)

269 Trump approves construction of battleships

The future is drones; air, land and sea.

That, and cyber attacks, GoF chimera, purchased politicians and judges and drugs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (kHd4y)

Someone knows their warfare.

But don't forget lawyers, guns, and money.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)

270 I couldn't pick jenna tortuga out of a lineup.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Her cooter is very dry.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (77rzZ)

271 Battleships? Dems might get on board if you name one the USS George Floyd. It will go down, but it will take you with it.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

No ventilation system.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (fryM6)

272
DOnnie Two Scoops is saying the era of American decline is over.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

273 Bulg, Biden's Dog had a link to that the other morning. Sorry I don't remember the details.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (sDNVV)

274 You know who else tried to build up a navy with battleships..

Posted by: Guy who notices at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (Dv3i1)

275 Explosive Vest Man.

Good point. Given the propensity for anyone to build anything in superhero universes, there must be some guy who can make explosive vests using self-adhesive micro-nukes.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (EXyHK)

276 Best lesbian movie by far is Bound.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)

I’ll see your bound and raise you a desert hearts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM

Caged Heat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (jc0TO)

277 I'd like to see a movie adaption of E-Man. The comics have 2 or 3 good story lines.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (Vh9CX)

278 Tho, the submersible unmanned ships will be a thing for a while. Think what a flotilla of AUSVs could do to a battle-group.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (mlg/3)

279 The only thing I know about Jenna Ortega is from "X", where she plays the girlfriend of the cameramen who keeps talking about what a legitimate art for pornography is, and talks her into it, much to his dismay.

She has nice hips.

https://tinyurl.com/3h64k8mp

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (asXVI)

280 Really? I heard he was tired of her s***.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (Riz8t)
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That happened with Amber Heard, too.

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)

281 Burton's movies are kind of meh these days, but her working almost exclusively with this guy who suddenly is getting all the money in the world to make weird things on huge scales is interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (GBKbO)

Maybe he could do a remake of GWTW.

Cast Timothy Shamanama as Rhett.

"Frankly, my dear Jenna, I don't give a heck."

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (dGCAG)

282 DVD's available for a couple three $ at goodwill industries.
Im happy to chip in to keep people employed especially in $16 hrs minimum wage Commiefornia.

Posted by: torabora at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (w6sjj)

283
Best lesbian movie by far is Bound.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)

I’ll see your bound and raise you a desert hearts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM

Caged Heat.
Posted by: toby928

Schindler's List.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (CWez5)

284 Caged Heat.

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Do not know this one. I shall have to investigate.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)

285
This reminds me of this:

https://is.gd/4Xr6bd

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (w6EFb)

286 Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a pretty good comic-book adjacent lesbian/bisexual movie.

"Based on fact".

How much so, I don't know, but William Marston (creator of Wonder Woman) definitely lived in a menage a trois with his wife and one of his students and definitely had children by both women (also, the women continued to live together for the rest of their lives after his death).

Pretty good film, IMO, but then I have a thing for Bella Heathcote.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (IG3/x)

287 Don't we have our own in-house reviewer for movies featuring zaftig inhabitants from the Isle of Sapphos?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)

288 Speaking of...

@RichSementa 1m
NEW - Trump: New Battleships Will Inspire Fear In Our Enemies

"They'll help maintain American military supremacy... and inspire fear in America's enemies all over the world... Ultimately we think it's going to be anywhere from 20-25 of these [built]."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (mlg/3)

289 zendaya is Aphrodite. whatev's. (or maybe athena. also whatev's)

She must be really good on the casting couch because they keep trying to make her a thing. She can't act, and unlike a young Jennifer Connelly or Amanda Seyfried she doesn't have the looks to get these kind of roles.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (sKqQm)

290 The extra hell of it is, Angelina Jolie would make an awesome Penelope.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

Not with her breasts cut off.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (77rzZ)

291 WTH would we build battleships? The consensus is that smaller, stealthier, more numerous, and autonomous is the only way to survivability. And don't get me started on rail guns. We'd pretty much given up on them.

What's next, zeppelins?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (Riz8t)

292 The only thing I know about Jenna Ortega is from "X", where she plays the girlfriend of the cameramen who keeps talking about what a legitimate art for pornography is, and talks her into it, much to his dismay.

She has nice hips.

https://tinyurl.com/3h64k8mp
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (asXVI)

I didn't know that was her!

Time for a rewatch.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (dGCAG)

293 What's next, zeppelins?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM

Armored Zeppelins.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (jc0TO)

294 I saw KB TWBA, go see it only if you are a completist or nihilist, during the intermission you will contemplate whether to bail or not, you will have to sublimate that urge.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (XV/Pl)

295 Ultimately we think it's going to be anywhere from 20-25 of these [built]."
____

Greenland won't stand a chance!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (Dv3i1)

296 Trade schools are going to be cranking out welders.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (sDNVV)

297 Battleships aren't a terrible idea as mobile artillery platforms but will we actually use them as such?

For example the Yemen pirates could be handled by going up and down their coast destroying every sea side village...

But even Trump won't go there and actually solve the problem

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (sKqQm)

298 So The judge extended the Maryland mans TRO so he can stay longer.. We're never getting rid of that POS are we ....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (VE6XX)

299 Not with her breasts cut off.
Posted by: Bulg at

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Reconstructed and looking fabulous

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (pS434)

300 Trade schools are going to be cranking out welders.
Posted by: Ben Had

Couldn't you just pay them a wage instead?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (mlg/3)

301 zendaya is Aphrodite. whatev's. (or maybe athena. also whatev's)

She must be really good on the casting couch because they keep trying to make her a thing. She can't act, and unlike a young Jennifer Connelly or Amanda Seyfried she doesn't have the looks to get these kind of roles.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (sKqQm)

Best Aphrodite is Xena Aphrodite.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (3uBP9)

302 Do not know this one. I shall have to investigate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)

Pretty sure it's standard 70s era sexploitation, drive-in fare.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (dGCAG)

303 302 Do not know this one. I shall have to investigate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)

Pretty sure it's standard 70s era sexploitation, drive-in fare.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (dGCAG)

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Pearl is better.

Still haven't seen MaXXXine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (GBKbO)

304 Zendaya and Ortega look like girls and not women.

They will never rise above that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (XV/Pl)

305 Caged Heat.

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Do not know this one. I shall have to investigate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0

What? Really? That is like one of the most ubiquitous and OG Horde and indeed pop culture references.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (zZu0s)

306 Best Aphrodite is Xena Aphrodite.

I liked Uma Thurman as Aphrodite in Baron Munchausen.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (sKqQm)

307 Do not know this one. I shall have to investigate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)

Pretty sure it's standard 70s era sexploitation, drive-in fare.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (dGCAG)

Someone just dated themselves, or came out of the closet.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (dK+Kv)

308 A savvy investor would be looking at any/all anti-drone technologies and investing.

They are (for now) fairly unsophisticated flying, boating or whatever devices pre-programmed or GPS enabled to go from point A to point B (maybe by some circuitous route) and blow shit up.

Fry its brain and it's dead. We're looking into that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (NwnyJ)

309 Odysseus' pride was the cause of his problems; if he'd just kept his mouth shut while he was leaving the Cyclops' Island instead of telling his true name. What a maroon.

Posted by: Gary Puckett at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (ynpvh)

310 Bound is just a great movie and not just a good lesbian movie that's why imo it makes it the best lesbian movie .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (KDPiq)

311 Can anyone even make Class A face-hardened armor anymore?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (jc0TO)

312 off sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (ynpvh)

313 Pearl is better.

Still haven't seen MaXXXine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (GBKbO)

Same

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (dGCAG)

314 Seen anything worth recommending?

Nope.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (Kt19C)

315 weft, welding jobs will probably start at $ 60 an hour.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (sDNVV)

316 Zendaya and Ortega look like girls and not women.

They will never rise above that.

I think Ortega can be quite pretty when she isn't being weird.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (sKqQm)

317 Odyssey trailer looks like steaming pretentious dogshit

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (TEgX5)

318 317 Odyssey trailer looks like steaming pretentious dogshit
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (TEgX5)

Don't hold back

Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (VE6XX)

319 Saw title but didn't watch a video on YouTube
Why there won't be another Battleship again

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)

320 "It was Penelope all along"

You know they'll butcher it for Teh Message

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (WI7ox)

321 Someone just dated themselves, or came out of the closet.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (dK+Kv)

By the time I was old enough to go to drive-ins, they were almost all gone.

I am familiar with the genre though.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)

322 Now that's funny.

>>@RiseOfAlberta
·
3m
>>🚨 BREAKING 🚨

>>Elections Alberta has approved the citizen initiative petition on Alberta independence.

>>This means the official process moves forward and signature collection can begin January 2.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (viF8m)

323 Caged Heat.
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Early Jonathan Demme, when Corman lit upon "women behind bars!" and the Philippines as a cheap shooting location with VERY low regulation and safety requirements!

It under-delivers, of course, but it has its moments.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (asXVI)

324 >>> Best Aphrodite is Xena Aphrodite.

I liked Uma Thurman as Aphrodite in Baron Munchausen.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (sKqQm)

Not voluptuous enough

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (3uBP9)

325 Greenland won't stand a chance!
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Next Mardigras will be held in Nuuk!
-- Trump's special envoy to Greenland

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)

326 >> 310 Bound is just a great movie and not just a good lesbian movie that's why imo it makes it the best lesbian movie .

Ralphie from Sopranos plays another fine role as douchey gangster.

Posted by: the dandy at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (8l8nW)

327 > Best Aphrodite is Xena Aphrodite.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (3uBP9)

I'd go with Ursula Andress in the original Clash of the Titans.

Mmmm.... Ursula.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:36 PM (IG3/x)

328 Big Beautiful Battleships. Yuge Carriers and Super Duper Submarines.

We are going to refight WW2?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 05:36 PM (PVBkQ)

329 By the time I was old enough to go to drive-ins, they were almost all gone.

I am familiar with the genre though.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)

We have one around here, and I still need to take the kids.

But on the genre, I have taken to searching out old 60-70s monster, sci-fi, and other movies, and those exploitation movies always show up in my search results or recommendations, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)

330 It under-delivers, of course, but it has its moments.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM

It's no Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (jc0TO)

331
When will Hollywood remake "The Bodyguard" and make it about a tough dyke loner who protects a small tranny fake "boy?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (CWez5)

332 I'll watch murder and mayhem all day long but I'm not going to watch a bunch of perverse trash.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:38 PM (sDNVV)

333 It's no Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens.
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Screenplay by Roger Ebert!

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When will Hollywood remake "The Bodyguard" and make it about a tough dyke loner who protects a small tranny fake "boy?"
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It's almost in the works now. The currently-being-shot remake has a female bodyguard and a male ward.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (asXVI)

334 I liked Uma Thurman as Aphrodite in Baron Munchausen.
Posted by: 18-1

A woman whose looks are truly overrated. Like Cameron Diaz.

One of them was in The Truth About Cats and Dogs with Jeanine Garofalo. I thought that Garofalo was the far cuter one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (77rzZ)

335 Speaking of a series that absolutely needs to be filmed, but never will...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (y9nCu)

It was filmed, Malcom McDowell played Flashman. It was pretty bad. Royal Flash.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (rbvCR)

336 Margaret Qualley is a better actress than her mother, Andie McDowell. Then again so's roadkill

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (MoRvC)

337 332 I'll watch murder and mayhem all day long but I'm not going to watch a bunch of perverse trash.
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Only Wholesome Murder and Mayhem For Me, Thanks!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (asXVI)

338 >>297 Battleships aren't a terrible idea as mobile artillery platforms but will we actually use them as such
............
I first thought battleships? But then thought big ships with missles, drones, nuclear capability, marines, and artillery.

Posted by: Cosda at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (gP5NO)

339
Two Scoops: We've had different kind of presidents before me. They didn't mind getting ripped off. Didn't mind drugs pouring in our country and killing millions of Americans. I do mind.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (w6EFb)

340 I'll watch murder and mayhem all day long but I'm not going to watch a bunch of perverse trash.
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Only Wholesome Murder and Mayhem For Me, Thanks!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (asXVI)

Perversity is in the eye of the beholder.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dK+Kv)

341 Review: Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens

https://tinyurl.com/2wknx98b

"The thing has a plot, but to summarize it would be to miss the point. It’s rather like what you would expect if a Henry Miller character had rewritten Our Town for serialization in Playboy or Penthouse."

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

342 Wonder why drive ins went away
Loved to go as a kid

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (Ia/+0)

343 But on the genre, I have taken to searching out old 60-70s monster, sci-fi, and other movies, and those exploitation movies always show up in my search results or recommendations, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)

I much prefer 80s action and/or cheap teen sex romps.

Fast Times and Porky's are the first of the latter type I saw in theaters.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

344 There's no Caged Heat on Rifftrax but they do have Fugitive Rage which is in a similar ball park. Pretty funny, not constant T&A, but a dumb movie that is good for riffing.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (3uBP9)

345 I hope Damon does the same stupid shit he did just as his movie "The Green Zone" was released, and subsequently turned into a box office bomb.

Damon can't help himself from making pseudo-intellectual political statements whenever he has a microphone in front of him to promote a new project. That's what happened with "The Green Zone." I'm hoping it happens with this one too. You'd think he'd be smart enough to realize that Hollywood films are a popularity contest. But, it seems his need to portray himself as smarter than the rest of the room always comes into play.

In case you were wondering. I don't like the guy.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dIske)

346 Just the opening scene from that trailer to Nolan's film tells me to skip it.

Troy is better and I hated that slop.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (2GVsD)

347 >>>The currently-being-shot remake has a female bodyguard and a male ward.

A role I was born to play.

Posted by: USSS Special Agent FUPA at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (Y1sOo)

348 336 Margaret Qualley is a better actress than her mother, Andie McDowell. Then again so's roadkill
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But she's nowhere near as good looking as Demi Moore (whom she plays the younger version of in "The Substance").

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:41 PM (asXVI)

349 Margaret Qualley is a better actress than her mother, Andie McDowell. Then again so's roadkill
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (MoRvC)

Better actress, world class dancing skills, and substantially better looking than her mom ever was.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:41 PM (dGCAG)

350 Best lesbian movie by far is Prometheus.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 05:42 PM (Kt19C)

351 >> But then thought big ships with missles, drones, nuclear capability, marines, and artillery.

And frickin' lasers. Don't forget the lasers.

Seriously, it is all of the above. Nookular capable Big Beautiful Battleships, 100 times more powerful than the Iowa. If you see that topping over the horizon coming at you, you're toast, he says.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:42 PM (w6EFb)

352 @348 moviegique, haven't seen The Substance. Is it worth my time?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:42 PM (MoRvC)

353 Just imagine if the US Navy had built just one of the Montana class.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (2GVsD)

354 Battleships aren't a terrible idea as mobile artillery platforms but will we actually use them as such

Yeah, and all they have to do is get within artillery range and stay there despite the missiles, air, and drones.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (Riz8t)

355 >>>There's no Caged Heat on Rifftrax

Try searching for Renegade Girls. Same movie.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (Y1sOo)

356 I first thought battleships? But then thought big ships with missles, drones, nuclear capability, marines, and artillery.

Posted by: Cosda at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (gP5NO)

You'd have to. Of course we're not talking 16 inch gun boats.

There's gotta be drones, energy weapons, and drone countermeasures including the new UUVs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (dK+Kv)

357
Fake News fake "reporter": What are we (he did say we) going to do with the oil you seized on December 10th, the 1.9M bbls?

President: "Keep it. We're keeping the ship, too."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (CWez5)

358 Trump should announce Corelian Class Star Destroyers. Just to eff with the left

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (MoRvC)

359 "I dunno, it could be a Trojan horse."

We're not getting the full story on that.

We're just going to wheel it in and ignore the horse's abnormally huge ass?

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (WI7ox)

360 MATT. DAMON.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (25LyA)

361 It's been my opinion that Hollywood last 50 years has intentionally picked non traditional looking women to be their sex symbols . They rarely pushed classical beauties to be their it actress.Charlize Theron is last one I can think of.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (KDPiq)

362 329 By the time I was old enough to go to drive-ins, they were almost all gone.

I am familiar with the genre though.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)
___________________________

Up until about five years ago we had a drive-in around my neck of the woods. Thing is, it only showed adult films. Growing up, there'd always be about 50 high school kids camping out in the corn field behind the drive-in. No sound, but you make do with what ya got.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (dIske)

363 Troy is better and I hated that slop.
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I'm with you on that one, Anna Puma. It was fine (I guess) to remove the Gods as actual players, but to remove religion completely was to be just the dorky kid smashing action figures together.

I'm glad people enjoy Nolan, but I haven't really liked one of his movies since "Insomnia", so I was out almost from the get-go anyway. (I recognize his ability but, like Scorsese or Mann, I just can't get into his films.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (asXVI)

364 Time to rewatch “Fatman”

Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (Hkcdp)

365 A woman whose looks are truly overrated. Like Cameron Diaz.

One of them was in The Truth About Cats and Dogs with Jeanine Garofalo. I thought that Garofalo was the far cuter one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (77rzZ)

I think Thurman was 19 when she was in Dangerous Liaisons.

From the neck down, on a scale of 1-10, she was an 11.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (dGCAG)

366 Battleships...hoo boy. Any explanation for the doctrinal shift undoing 80+ years of naval focus? Because it seems a bit odd.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (OUMaO)

367 No, not a Trojan Horse but a Trans Horse... it will be fabulous

-- Hollywood

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (2GVsD)

368 "What if I can't?" Doesn't sound like Odysseus to me.

I think Nolan is the most overrated director of our time, but I'll watch it because I love the story.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 22, 2025 05:45 PM (WHfpM)

369 Comrade Flounder, I was trying to lesd crude than saying carpet munchers and fudge packers

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:45 PM (sDNVV)

370 Margaret Qualley stole my mouth.

Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)

371
The Substance get points for being original, I'll give it that.

The Substance also pounds the shit out of the points it's trying to make.

Enough, already. You made your point, move on with the story.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (CWez5)

372 Battleships are too expensive a target
At least a aircraft carrier can keep opponents away much farther.

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)

373 They could cast Kathrine Winnick, from Vikings, as the female bodyguard. Apparently, she’s done that in real life.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Hkcdp)

374 Up until about five years ago we had a drive-in around my neck of the woods. Thing is, it only showed adult films. Growing up, there'd always be about 50 high school kids camping out in the corn field behind the drive-in. No sound, but you make do with what ya got.

Local Farmer: WTH!!! I have a field covered in kleenex again!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Riz8t)

375 Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke lives up in Woodstock about 15 m from me. She's tall and attractive in an odd way

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (MoRvC)

376 I much prefer 80s action and/or cheap teen sex romps.

Fast Times and Porky's are the first of the latter type I saw in theaters.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

Those are good, too.

It's just that I was a bit too young to appreciate some of the earlier works, and I am looking to explore some of those, especially given the similarities in zeitgeist with current times.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (dK+Kv)

377 Up until about five years ago we had a drive-in around my neck of the woods. Thing is, it only showed adult films. Growing up, there'd always be about 50 high school kids camping out in the corn field behind the drive-in. No sound, but you make do with what ya got.
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (dIske)

When I was a kid we'd drive past the drive-in, and I was under the impression they always showed naughty films.

So I'd be in the back of the car, gawking as we drove past, trying to catch a glimpse of... something. I'm not even sure I would have known what I was seeing if I saw it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (dGCAG)

378 I thought the Armand Assante Odysseus was pretty good.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (jibVG)

379 352 @348 moviegique, haven't seen The Substance. Is it worth my time?

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How squeamish are you? We're talking Cronenberg-plus levels of body-horror, that goes from horror into comedy. The last 20 minute sequence is the most deliriously excessive body horror I've seen in decades—maybe ever.

So if you can keep your lunch down, and this sort of thing is your bag, you get a lot of naked Moore and Qualley. (And Moore@60! looks amazing.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (asXVI)

380 Battleships are too expensive a target
At least a aircraft carrier can keep opponents away much farther.

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)

That's probably a sober assessment. We could get away with similar capacity with a fleet of destroyers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (dK+Kv)

381 Lived, not lives

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (MoRvC)

382 Fuggin chain saw Mexican been told not to lop off tree which shades my place in summer, but Nooooo habla just cutty.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (Kt19C)

383 >>> I'd go with Ursula Andress in the original Clash of the Titans.

Mmmm.... Ursula.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:36 PM (IG3/x)

Clash of the Titays was the first on screen boobs I ever saw. I think it was on regular broadcast, 85ish, watching some stupid boring movie on tv, and all of a sudden boobs!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (3uBP9)

384 Margaret Qualley stole my mouth.
Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)

Anyone who doesn't think Qualley is a smokeshow is by definition, teh ghey.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)

385 Odessey trailer looks cheap and fake, the gold standard is Gladiator, and it doesn't meet that standard at all, hell it's doesn't even look like 300 level.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (XV/Pl)

386 Thanks, moviegique- sounds like The Substance is not for me.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (Hkcdp)

387 Battleships weren't all that useful against, say, the Soviet Union (or some other enemy with aircraft carriers and subs).

Against shithole villages full of third-world pirates?

Well, there's something to be said for hitting Habib's goat pen with a full ton of high explosive from 25 miles away.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (IG3/x)

388 Two Scoops: We've had different kind of presidents before me. They didn't mind getting ripped off. Didn't mind drugs pouring in our country and killing millions of Americans. I do mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Sadly, half the country wants our country to get ripped off and doesn't mind drugs flowing in. And illegal alien criminals to rape and kill their neighbors. If that's what it takes to Make America Respectable Again!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (Dv3i1)

389 The FBI has just discovered Epstein video showing him trying to commit suicide in his cell with a bed sheet.

Amazing discoveries abound at the DOJ. Just amazing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (abIsI)

390 When I was as thirty and working 60hrs a week, I would go to the drive in with my 21 year old girlfriend on the weekends. I was a sleep within 15 minutes after the movie started. Never went over very well.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)

391 @379 thx, I like Cronenberg type stuff so I'll check it out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (MoRvC)

392 Well, there's something to be said for hitting Habib's goat pen with a full ton of high explosive from 25 miles away.
___

Ach! My harem! Ululululuulululu!

Posted by: Habib at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (Dv3i1)

393 Is the sea wine dark? Is there a dog that recognizes Odysseus when he returns home?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (8CIFn)

394 How squeamish are you? We're talking Cronenberg-plus levels of body-horror, that goes from horror into comedy. The last 20 minute sequence is the most deliriously excessive body horror I've seen in decades—maybe ever.

So if you can keep your lunch down, and this sort of thing is your bag, you get a lot of naked Moore and Qualley. (And Moore@60! looks amazing.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (asXVI)

Ever seen "American Mary"?

Yeah.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (dGCAG)

395 Lots of prisoners posting ITT

Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (Y1sOo)

396 Battleships are too expensive a target

Posted by: Skip

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Too expensive for whom? The attacker or the battleship?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (pS434)

397 Margaret Qualley stole my mouth.
Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)

Anyone who doesn't think Qualley is a smokeshow is by definition, teh ghey.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)

Nice teeth.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (dK+Kv)

398 Battleships weren't all that useful against, say, the Soviet Union (or some other enemy with aircraft carriers and subs).

Against shithole villages full of third-world pirates?

Well, there's something to be said for hitting Habib's goat pen with a full ton of high explosive from 25 miles away.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Will it be useful against China? Venezuela? India, if it comes to it?

Seriously, I'm honestly baffled. We need flexibility and affordability, not a Great White Elephant Fleet.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (OUMaO)

399 The helmets are way too advanced.

They should have boar's tusk helmets

Posted by: coba at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (IuIym)

400 Iirc, it was beyond the valley of the dolls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

401 389 The FBI has just discovered Epstein video showing him trying to commit suicide in his cell with a bed sheet.

Amazing discoveries abound at the DOJ. Just amazing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I was wrong, it's a re-creation video. WTF?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (abIsI)

402 Is the sea wine dark? Is there a dog that recognizes Odysseus when he returns home?

That's the sequel where Circe beguiles our hero while performing porcine surgeries on his crew.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (2GVsD)

403 Enough, already. You made your point, move on with the story.
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Nah. I mean, you're not wrong if you're talking a traditional film, but this is a balls-to-the-wall horror satire. Going halfway would not have worked. Yes, it's alienating to a lot of the audience but it wasn't the time for moderation.

The director is a Parisian girl (Coralie Fargeat) who did a revenge picture called "Revenge" where the lead girl prances around half-naked (and her lover is dong out half the time)--I mean, it's the sort of exploitation that nobody does any more and I thinks he gets away with it because, well, woman. It's empowering or something.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (asXVI)

404
Is Bari Weiss stupid? I she in over her head?

Yes.

Just say the 60 Minutes fake "story" was BAD. Don't be coy. Don't be respectful. Be honest and throw them all under the bus where they belong.

60 Minutes tried NBC Ford Pinto the Trump Admin and Bari Weiss beats around the bush about it. Just say it was Shit fake journalism.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (CWez5)

405 Margaret Qualley's sister Rainey is better looking

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (MoRvC)

406 MATT DAMON!!!

Posted by: Cynical Stoic at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (U6BqK)

407 Nice teeth.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (dK+Kv)

Legs a mile long.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (dGCAG)

408 I love battleships... but this does strike me as giant boondoggle/target.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

409
btw, Barry Weiss should FIRE whoever leaked it and made it a "news" "story" that she shelved the 60 Minutes hoax-story.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (CWez5)

410
During the Q&A, Trump said somebody, some country I missed, has "three big cocaine factories", and we know where they are. He better shut those down right now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (w6EFb)

411 Compared to a Ford class carrier and its air group of Super Bugs and Fat Amys, a battleship surface action group is cheap power projection.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (2GVsD)

412 Designers talked about can "arsenal ship". That could be the template for new battlewagons

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (MoRvC)

413 386 Thanks, moviegique- sounds like The Substance is not for me.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (Hkcdp)
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It's in the HUGE catalogue of movies over the past five years where I said, "Well, that was aMAzing and I can't think of a person to recommend it to." (Except Eris.)

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383 >>> I'd go with Ursula Andress in the original Clash of the Titans.
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"The Sensuous Nurse". I mean, if you like Ursula boobs (et al).

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:54 PM (asXVI)

414
Donnie Dreadnought?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (w6EFb)

415 The key to using battleships effectively is to outfit them with wave motion engines and cannon and blast your enemies from space. Also, cute anime chicks dig space battleship fighter pilots. Fact.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (3uBP9)

416 > Will it be useful against China? Venezuela? India, if it comes to it?

Seriously, I'm honestly baffled. We need flexibility and affordability, not a Great White Elephant Fleet.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (OUMaO)

Venezuela, probably.

The thing is we haven't been fighting China, or Russia, or India for the last 40 years.

We've been fighting Libya, and Somalia, and Pockyston, and Sudan, and Iraq, and Iran, and Grenada, and Panama, and...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (IG3/x)

417 The key to using battleships effectively is to outfit them with wave motion engines and cannon and blast your enemies from space. Also, cute anime chicks dig space battleship fighter pilots. Fact.

And the gunsight for the Wave Motion Cannon is a surplus Luftwaffe Revi 16B.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (2GVsD)

418 I think the new Trump Class carrier should have a a big busted woman figurehead at the bow of the ship. In gold leaf of course.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (abIsI)

419 And F-14s that turn into giant robots.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (zZu0s)

420
nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (CWez5)

421 nood

reporter

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (3uBP9)

422 400 Iirc, it was beyond the valley of the dolls.
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Different film! (Though also co-written by Ebert, IIRC.)

"Valley of the Dolls" is based on the execrable Jacqueline Suzann novel. She hated Russ Meyer's sequel and threatened to sue, to "Beyond" had to have a disclaimer that it had no relation to the book.

Then Russ went off on his whole "Vixen," "Ultra-Vixen" and "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixen" thing.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (asXVI)

423 VF-14Ds, VF-0S, VF-1S...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (2GVsD)

424 "Our Big beautiful Battleships are gonna have rail guns and lasers."

No, by the time they get rail guns installed they'll need to be refitted with Ion Pulse Cannons. And by the time they catch up to THAT Neutron Blasters will be the thing.

Did no one else play MOO2? Be patient, take the risk and let your shipyard skip a generation of tech. Or you'll be facing a fleet of Black Hole Generators with Plasma Torps

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (WI7ox)

425 “They did a race swap on Wonder Man which I don't care about because, get this, literally no one cares about Wonder Man.”

Let me just say as an eighties comic book collector I do care about Wonder Man. Except for the name I don’t know about the gender swap thing. It’s not like he came from some mystical island or has a silly assed rope or an invisible jet.

That said they will 100% screw this up.

Posted by: Clay at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (acuyW)

426 384 Margaret Qualley stole my mouth.
Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)

Anyone who doesn't think Qualley is a smokeshow is by definition, teh ghey.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)

She definitely caught my attention wearing those shorts in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

From what I gather her personality with that character is basically what she’s like offscreen, too.

She seems fun, but exhausting.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (6ydKt)

427 410
During the Q&A, Trump said somebody, some country I missed, has "three big cocaine factories", and we know where they are. He better shut those down right now.
____

It wouldn't surprise me if this information was known as far back as Clinton, but him and success presidents figured it was better if the American people didn't know about these so the the administrations wouldn't be forced to 'do something' about them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (Dv3i1)

428 185
Donnie Two Scoops: We're gonna build battleships again. Biggest battleships ever, like nothing you've even seen before. YUGE. Luxuriously lethal.

Also, even bigger carriers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (w6EFb)

Bring back the Iowa class, this time nuclear powered.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (4786I)

429 I think that we gave up on the idea of pykrete aircraft carriers the size of islands way too soon.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (jc0TO)

430 There's a YouTube video of a young French woman evaluating the fluency of Hollywood stars who speak French. She was delightfully surprised that Jodie Foster is "almost perfect" linguistically.

Foster recently made a French picture, A Private Life. She plays an American psychiatrist in Paris. One of her patients commits suicide, and the patient's husband blames the shrink. But then,
Foster finds stuff to suggest that maybe it wasn't suicide. Maybe, it was MURDER!!

That's about the only new movie I want to watch.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 22, 2025 06:36 PM (p9rFX)

431 I actually care, a little bit, about Wonder Man. I have always found the 'failure' nature of his character interesting.

I heard about the TV show, which I had heard was starring Eddie Murphy. Guess that fell through.

But, Wonder Man is supposed to be about a superhero (with actual powers) who wants to be an actor. That does not seem to be the story they are using. This looks like a The Franchise all over again.

Posted by: doug at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (6tMnc)

432 Movies I've seen and recommend; Hamnet, though at times I wished I had a button to turn on closed captions. Cast were pretty unknown.

Movies I saw and didn't hate; Naked Gun and Mission Impossible. MI was a slight disappointment.
Interesting thing about Naked Gun was that I found it amusing, but the twenty-somethings seated above went nuts for it. I think it's because the movie resurrected so many old sight gags and prat falls that I was so familiar with, but it was all new to them.

I saw Superman... I have regrets.

Posted by: John the River at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (Li1E5)

Communist Cuba "On Edge of Collapse" Due to Trump's Oil Embargo of Cuba's Key Ally Venezuela

Late last week, Trump seized a second Venezuelan tanker.

Now he's tracking a third tanker from the "dark fleet."

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela as President Donald Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with a sweeping blockade targeting illicit oil shipments.
"The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion," a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson. "It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order."
Reuters reported that another official noted the tanker was operating under sanctions and that it had not been boarded thus far. The official also said interceptions could be taken by flying or sailing near vessels of concern.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the officials did not provide the name of the vessel or where it was operating while being pursued.
The pursuit comes days after Trump announced a "total and complete blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.
..
A second tanker was seized by U.S. forces on Saturday, again, off the coast of Venezuela.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that the U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Department of War, apprehended the oil tanker during the early morning hours. The ship had last been docked in Venezuela.

This may result in Maduro's downfall.

It might also result in the downfall of the Castroist regime in Cuba. Venezuela has been sending its communist ally Cuba shipments of very subsidized oil for decades, and now those shipments are less than one-third of what they had been.

Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights. A quarter of the population has fled during the island's most prolonged economic crisis.
And it's about to get worse.
The U.S. is ratcheting up pressure on Havana's key benefactor, Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro's regime, which has kept the Communist-ruled nation afloat with cheap oil. Now Venezuelan oil exports are at risk thanks to a partial blockade targeting sanctioned tankers--the kind that carry about 70% of the country's crude.
One tanker that the U.S. has already seized was en route with almost two million barrels of Venezuelan oil.
The blockade adds to a U.S. pressure campaign on Maduro that also includes a major military buildup in the Caribbean, airstrikes on boats allegedly connected to Venezuelan drug trafficking and threats of bombing the country itself.
Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating.
"It would be the collapse of the Cuban economy, no question about it," said Jorge Piñón, a Cuban exile who tracks the island's energy ties to Venezuela at the University of Texas at Austin.
Venezuela has been vital for Cuba's economy since 1999, when then-President Hugo Chávez described the two countries as bound together "in a sea of happiness." Cuba deployed sports trainers, doctors and counterintelligence agents to Venezuela, the latter to root out traitors who might overthrow Chávez.
Venezuela responded with 100,000 barrels of oil shipped to Cuba daily.
The heavily subsidized oil shipments have fallen to 30,000 barrels a day. Agents from Cuba's vaunted intelligence service remain in Venezuela, where they have worked to purge disloyal military officers and government officials, helping ensure Maduro remains ensconced in power.
Cuba's deep reliance on Venezuela means Cuba's Communist government is doing all it can to prevent Maduro--who trained in Cuba as a young man--from being forced from office in his greatest challenge after nearly 13 years in office. That means ensuring he is always surrounded by security and loyal aides, with no one carrying cellphones or other electronic devices.
"They are taking very good care of Nicolás Maduro and his immediate successors," said Thomas A. Shannon Jr., a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat who engaged frequently with the Venezuelan regime. "The Cubans are not going to go quietly into the dark night."

Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

Posted by: Ace at 03:32 PM

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1 So many problems can be solved if we only had the will to solve them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (cuae1)

2 Oh, hey. First

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (cuae1)

3 This also makes it very clear that the "STRONG CONSERVATIVE" Republican presidents never really wanted to solve the Cuba problem.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (cuae1)

4 expect the world court to demand trump be arrested for crimes against humidity

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)

5 Guess I should nood.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (cuae1)

6 About 80 years too late but I'll take the W.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (XV/Pl)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

8 "Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating."

How is Cuba paying for the oil?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

9 Seems like Cuba has been on the verge of downfall for my entire lifetime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (7yt4l)

10 But, Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

11 >>>communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet

drug-toting communists, especially

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (RuTUS)

12 oh I'm loving this news!

maybe someday Mexico can stop being corruptocrat-commie too

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (emBoF)

13 9 Seems like Cuba has been on the verge of downfall for my entire lifetime.

very very true

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (emBoF)

14 So many problems can be solved if we only had the will to solve them.

But then we'd have lots of unemployed academics who could no longer tell us why all the problems are our fault and insoluble, and we should just give up and accept our fate.

Posted by: Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

15 correction

Posted by: Archimedes = Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

16 We need a modern day Homestead Act - opening up places like Cuba, Greenland, and Venezuala.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (sX1BW)

17 real calvinism has never been tried (hobbes)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (CWTWj)

18 Tucker "Tim Walz" Carlson.

Yep, I would like to see both the Venezuelan and Cuban governments to change to something more friendly to their people.

Posted by: BillB at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (TQxb9)

19 Cuba is awesome and everyone should go there and smoke cigars!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

20 Posted by: Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

Listen to her- she's got it goin' on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (7yt4l)

21 "Seems like Cuba has been on the verge of downfall for my entire lifetime.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (7yt4l)
___________

Walls are closing in!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

22 A lot of countries seem on the verge of collapse--Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine--yet they seem to be taking their sweet time to finally topple...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (ESVrU)

23 They process sugar cane with ancient machineery.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (kT/XV)

24 If they run low on oil, thay can just use all the lard from the Bay of Pigs.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (oraVG)

25 *dons Che Guevara shirt*

Viva la Cuba!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

26 I voted for this. More than this, actually. This will do until the lamentations of their women can be heard from my front door...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (nbLIj)

27 Cuba has been on the verge of collapse for over 50 years.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (pJizs)

28 ¡Ay, caramba!

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (rkTTp)

29 In before the Guy Who Always Says Nothing Will Happen?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (2uFUy)

30 The good news for Cuba is if it does collapse nobody will know the difference.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (viF8m)

31 Like I said yesterday, Cuba has already collapsed, at least by western standards. For it to get worse we would have to be looking at cannibal island.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)

32 Every member of the Congressional Black Caucus would prefer Castro or Madura to Reagan.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (rJ48h)

33 Are those 1950s cars in Cuba?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)

34 Cuber

Posted by: JFK at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (rQwsY)

35 >>For it to get worse we would have to be looking at cannibal island.

So Haiti it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (viF8m)

36 >> How is Cuba paying for the oil?

They don't pay for it. It's a barter system. In exchange for the oil, Cuber renders services to Maduro, like secret police goons and such.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

37 It's amazing to me that we went from overthrowing Arbenz in Guatemala because United Fruit didn't like their tax bill to mounting an incompetent [im]plausible deniability invasion of Cuba in just seven years. I think Kennedy's inability to police our hemisphere (even after Khrushchev policed his bloc in Hungary in 1956) might be the first example of "this is not who we are" self-defeating behavior in our government, at least since Wilson was at Versailles.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (UdiE9)

38 Lets not forget the Cubans that collaborated with the North Vietnamese and tortured our soldiers in the Hanoi Hilton.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (+mUZM)

39 we can only allow cuba to collapse if it means a flood of refugees who hate us.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (CWTWj)

40 33 Are those 1950s cars in Cuba?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)

Occasionally you will see them on the Florida Strait.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (rQwsY)

41 My boss is from Cuba. His parents migrated LEGALLY in the 60's. He's grateful to them and is proud to be an American.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

42 This also makes it very clear that the "STRONG CONSERVATIVE" Republican presidents never really wanted to solve the Cuba problem.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM

What have you heard?!

Posted by: George HW Bush at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (jc0TO)

43 BOGO regime change. That's good business.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (CwhoI)

44 Cuba loans out Doctors.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (kT/XV)

45 Cuba is in the most fragile state they’ve been in for the last 50 years. The entire country is slowly collapsing and they rely on the financial support of nations like Russia, Venezuela, Iran and other enemies of our country. It’s the only thing that keeps them afloat, and the sanctions plus offensive action are sinking it. At some point it will be over for the Castro line.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (SWd7w)

46 AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers most upset.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (rQwsY)

47 Democrats -*Don't hurt the cartels! Not until we get our cut!

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (2fdLC)

48 Oh, and just because it came across the playlist........almost seems fitting.

https://youtu.be/GHeWnGGScP0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

49 > Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights.
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It's late December. How sweltering can Cuba possibly be in late December?

I've been in southern Florida, 90 miles away from Cuba, in March and it was fucking cold, man.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (NwnyJ)

50 You know what would solve this problem?
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

51 Between Cuba and Venezuela, which is dominant and which is the simp? The linked article makes it seem like Cuba has power over Vene. But I thought it was Vene that was by far the more powerful of the two, owning mainly to its powerful allies overseas (Iran, China, etc).

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

52 Commie Cuba has been a boil on our ass for far too long. Trump can fix that without shooting a single bullet. Make it so.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (6Bc88)

53 Oh dear, does reduced oil shipments mean it will be harder for Cuba to maintain their Canadian tourist industry? Figures that even for tourism on a tropical island the commies can't function without someone propping them up.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (hhkIi)

54 "The heavily subsidized oil shipments have fallen to 30,000 barrels a day. Agents from Cuba's vaunted intelligence service remain in Venezuela, where they have worked to purge disloyal military officers and government officials, helping ensure Maduro remains ensconced in power."
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So, how much do those "vaunted" guys ... cost? Would they accept bananas? Coconuts? AMEX pre-paid cards? If they are overseas, I suppose the Cuban government probably keeps a close eye on the immediate family members, but, sheesh, we could buy the minders, too.

Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (rj6Yv)

55 27: try 35, since the end of the Cold War. Go read your history.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (rQwsY)

56 4 expect the world court to demand trump be arrested for crimes against humidity
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)

Oh, he's absolutely going to get the Rodrigo Duterte treatment come 2029.

There's no way they don't try.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (UnA8+)

57 I understand American journalists are on standby to flock to Havana to report how bad it would be if 'quaint' Cuba was corrupted by capitalist America.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (CwhoI)

58 Cuban cigars kinda suck after decades of communism. All the decent tobacco farmers and cigar makers went to the Dominican Republic when they could.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (fgmuN)

59 As long as the very small % of armed guards protecting the elite are taken care of in these latin american communist dictatorships, nothing will happen. It probably is a great advantage if a bunch of your people starve and die. You have less people you have to shove around, and you can graft on the inflow of bleeding heart charity. win-win really

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (3uBP9)

60 How bad must this piss Owebama off........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

61 It’s the only thing that keeps them afloat, and the sanctions plus offensive action are sinking it. At some point it will be over for the Castro line.

You don't want that. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Zombie Ceaucescu at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (Riz8t)

62 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (pJizs)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

63 ¡Cuba Libre!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (YlWIZ)

64 I'd say Cuba is the E-girl and Venezuela is the whale going into debt to send money so he gets some feet pics.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (7yt4l)

65 Lets not forget the Cubans that collaborated with the North Vietnamese and tortured our soldiers in the Hanoi Hilton.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (+mUZM)
_______

"Cocksuckers also helped Russia invade the USA, twice!"

-- Chuck Norris
-- Patrick Swayze

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

66 Are those 1950s cars in Cuba?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)

Well, what's left of them. They are mostly made of russian tractor engines and Bondo these days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (npFr7)

67 52 Commie Cuba has been a boil on our ass for far too long. Trump can fix that without shooting a single bullet. Make it so.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (6Bc8

WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)

68
Venezuela has been a hub of anti-American subversion for years. DataRepublican had series of X posts on that a while back. Even our domestic subversives like Antifa the commies are tied into that.

Some of their defectors have spilled a lot of the beans on this, including that flooding us with drugs is a deliberate destabilization plot to mess us up domestically. Chicoms are big on this, as well as Iran/Islamofacists and the Rooskies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (w6EFb)

69 Like I said yesterday, Cuba has already collapsed, at least by western standards. For it to get worse we would have to be looking at cannibal island.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)
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Hi!

*waves at Cuba*

Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (ESVrU)

70 Cuban: sell nice 55 Chevy to American, and retire. Maybe.

Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)

71 Are they building a new wing in CECOT?

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (YlWIZ)

72 I miss TJM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

73 Between Cuba and Venezuela, which is dominant and which is the simp? The linked article makes it seem like Cuba has power over Vene. But I thought it was Vene that was by far the more powerful of the two, owning mainly to its powerful allies overseas (Iran, China, etc).

They're like the combination of Sears and K-Mart; two failing companies which when combined, by some miracle of capitalism will suddenly become profitable.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Riz8t)

74 Great, Cuba falls... where are those furry adjacent transgender weirdos going to get their "training" now that the Cuban spec ops can't be counted on?

See - Armed Queers Salt Lake City

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (NwnyJ)

75 As long as I don't hear any happy talk about Cubans and Venezuelans Who Are Our Frontline Migrant Heros getting to emigrate here, I'm good.

But, of course that's what will happen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (BI5O2)

76 I certainly am a lot more isolationist than I was 25 fucking years ago and glad to be so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (7yt4l)

77 Tucker gonna walk into his kitchen one day and find his bunny boiling as Ace slips out the back

Posted by: TITP at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (OUE/9)

78 That Tucker sure is smart! Sarcasm heavily heavy sarcasm. Heavy

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (pyeGn)

79 Well, what's left of them. They are mostly made of russian tractor engines and Bondo these days.

I guess they ran out of welding rods.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (YlWIZ)

80 Walz are closing in. Again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (pkeXY)

81 10 But, Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
..................................................
#2 Weeks

#Soon

Etc .

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (sAmhv)

82 This must be the walls are closing in situation. Cuba has been about ready to fail for 50 years. If they do fail, can we vacate south Florida back and let them rebuild?

Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (uQzkA)

83 When I was living in PR there quite a few Cuban refugees on the island. Most Puerto Ricans weren't to fond of them but they were some of the most ant-communist people I've ever met.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (viF8m)

84
Those defectors have also said that a lot of CIA and State Dept officials are on Venezuela's payroll. They've supposedly named names.

Trump has said enough of this shit. This is the Donroe Doctrine. No more big foreign powers messing around in our hemisphere to subvert us.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

85 Oops. Copy and paste fail. I'll go stand in the corner.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (sAmhv)

86 Commie Cuba has been a boil on our ass for far too long. Trump can fix that without shooting a single bullet. Make it so.
Posted by: tcn in AK

WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers

Sucks to be Ukraine.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 03:49 PM (dAOkg)

87 There's a good Hard Case Crime paperback by Mickey Spillane called, The Consummata. It centers around cuba and the cold war.

A little bit of horniness but mostly a lot of commie killin'

I highly recommend it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:49 PM (3uBP9)

88 If we can get two of the worst regimes in the western hemisphere to fall with the only American casualties being cases of sunburn on the blockading ships...

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (CwhoI)

89 The youknowwhos must steal to make ends meet.

This how they meet girls. Sad World.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (EyfuW)

90 They can just reach out to Michael Moore and get a bailout, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

91 Isn't this all just attributable to America's relationship with Israel?

Posted by: DBH at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (eMT6A)

92 The youknowwhos must steal to make ends meet.

This how they meet girls. Sad World.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (EyfuW)

Jews?
-you never know around here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (7yt4l)

93 Cuban: sell nice 55 Chevy to American, and retire. Maybe.

Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)

Having spoken to Canadians who went there, you don't want them. Those cars are 20-footers, at best. They maintain them for the tourist trade. There are probably some real fine cars in Fidel's personal collection, whoever has custody of that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (npFr7)

94 If they run low on oil, thay can just use all the lard from the Bay of Pigs.
Posted by: zombie

If they run low on oil, they can burn doctors, sports trainers and counter intelligence agents.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (cxFcK)

95 Wait, what are *we* supposed to think about the eventual demise of Cuba's communist government?

Posted by: All Those Young People Its Go Time Donald Claims Look to Nick Fuentes for Leadership at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)

96 When I was living in PR there quite a few Cuban refugees on the island. Most Puerto Ricans weren't to fond of them but they were some of the most ant-communist people I've ever met.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (viF8m)
____

PR had a MAGA-ish conservative governor, Ricardo Rossello, who was doing good things on the Island. So of course he had to be destroyed. And he was, in 2019, in the "Rickyleaks" scandal. He was ousted for inflammatory (private texts) where he and his friends shat on their political enemies. Nothing they said wasn't 100% true, but it was enough to get rid of him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

97 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there — especially the new Weight Loss Cruises, renamed during their Havana stopovers as Pilates of the Caribbean.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (oraVG)

98 A quarter of the population has fled during the island's most prolonged economic crisis.

Fled to where? I thought Cuba was a prison island and that only a raft made up of flotsam bound together or the Grim Reaper was the only way out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (9s47C)

99 Kill two Commies with one stone
Now thats shooting

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)

100 >>> Cuban: sell nice 55 Chevy to American, and retire. Maybe.

Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)

I think those are all mostly 55 Chevy of Theseus by now. Maybe not much value.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (3uBP9)

101 >>Fled to where? I thought Cuba was a prison island and that only a raft made up of flotsam bound together or the Grim Reaper was the only way out.

You can find quite a few in Florida.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (viF8m)

102 How long till they attack Gitmo for oil?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

103 Im going to die laughing if Trump solves the Cuba problem. All these bright strategists who got nowhere and then comes Trump.

A lot of things are ending with that. ... THEN CAME TRUMP

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (WI7ox)

104 WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)

You sending your kids first, right? Right?

Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (dK+Kv)

105 I have no moral or political problems with overthrowing both the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes.

They're close (in our hemisphere) and therefore pertinent to our security.
They're hostile, show no signs of being open to negotiation. Indeed, they're looking for ways to cause us more trouble.

I just want the coups to succeed and not leave us saddled with basket cases that we have to occupy and keep on life support.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (fd80v)

106 Now can I get my casinos back?

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wBaIH)

107 "Communist Cuba "On Edge of Collapse" Due to Trump's Oil Embargo of Cuba's Key Ally Venezuela "

I said this the other day but it bears repeating...I was stationed at GITMO from 93-95 and even back then cuba was "weeks" away from collapse. I grant this time might actually be different but cuba has been on the verge of collapse dozens of times in the decades since I was stationed there and it hasn't happened yet.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (0N4FZ)

108 You know what would solve this problem?
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

Thread winner...I'm putting that on my Linked In profile, in fact...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (nbLIj)

109 Can we give Cuba to Muslim Commie Mondami to run ... into the ground?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (9JDJW)

110 How long till the Cuban government starts murdering their own people in a strong arm attempt to force Trump to release the Venezuelan oil tankers?

"TRUMP HATES BROWN PEOPLE!!!!"

"HE'S LETTING THEM DIE!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

111 Wait, what are *we* supposed to think about the eventual demise of Cuba's communist government?

Posted by: All Those Young People Its Go Time Donald Claims Look to Nick Fuentes for Leadership at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)

lol

Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (dK+Kv)

112 >>> 84
Those defectors have also said that a lot of CIA and State Dept officials are on Venezuela's payroll. They've supposedly named names.

Trump has said enough of this shit. This is the Donroe Doctrine. No more big foreign powers messing around in our hemisphere to subvert us.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

Donny Two Scoops won't put up with any trash in his neighborhood.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (ULPxl)

113 is doing all it can to prevent Mayor Bass--who trained in Cuba as a young woman--from being forced from office

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (Kt19C)

114
Cuba has suffered from the US embargo. Because we can't tolerate a successful socialist country. That's what I've been told at least.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tgvbd)

115 is doing all it can to prevent Mayor Bass--who trained in Cuba as a young woman--from being forced from office
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (Kt19C)

So, you're saying Cuba just needs to be lit on fire?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

116 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there — especially the new Weight Loss Cruises, renamed during their Havana stopovers as Pilates of the Caribbean.

If it does eventually collapse, it will turn in to a state-run Epstein enterprise.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

117 Cuba has suffered from the US embargo. Because we can't tolerate a successful socialist country. That's what I've been told at least.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tgvbd)

I'm curious as to their definition of 'success.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

118 Please send Spam

Posted by: Cooba at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

119
Johnny Ola knows Cuba like the back of his hand.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (tgvbd)

120 Two words, Casinos!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)

121 Now can I get my casinos back?
Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wBaIH)
==========

Put AI to work. Transform every Cuban beach into a casino-resort-remote workplace paradise using AI for the transformation. Put that sh*t on the internet. I know the average Cuban's means of communication is a taut string between two coconut shells, but the people who count will see it.

Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (rj6Yv)

122 How is Cuba paying for the oil?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Watered-down Mojitos.

Posted by: Limey Larry at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (oftw2)

123 You know what would solve this problem?
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

Thread winner...I'm putting that on my Linked In profile, in fact...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

CHSI

Cubano High Speed Internet.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (dAOkg)

124 Cuba is a shithole filled with shitheads.

Do me a favor and keep their smelly asses locked down under socialismo.

Posted by: Babalu at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (m8zKa)

125 Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights.

So it's an average Monday, then.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (MZ+PY)

126 72
' I miss TJM.'

Where did he go?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (fd80v)

127 Fair Play for Cuba!

Posted by: zombie lee harvey oswald at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (rJ48h)

128 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there — especially the new Weight Loss Cruises, renamed during their Havana stopovers as Pilates of the Caribbean.

Carnival Section 8 Cruises 🚢

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (dAOkg)

129 Maybe he got a job?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (kT/XV)

130 Trump has been tap dancing around the legalities of America First. The man has been a regular Fred Astaire in this first year and has not really been taken to task. I understand the need for immediate gratification, but let this play out.

Posted by: kactus at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (twS2i)

131 ...Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

Been there, done that, Trump needs to cut off the Narco-funded LIBs, and their minion NEPOlibs left of launch before NY/MANDMANI espouses the inevitable: "FREE GAZA" chorus.

Every time you hear "FREE GAZA" know what it really means.

"They are coming. Atom by atom, they will coil around us and take all that we are. There is one way to confront this threat.... remain Klingon! That is why we light our beacon this day. To assemble our people. To lock arms against those whose fatal greeting is... WE COME IN PEACE"

Cry Havoc, and LET LOOSE the waves of LIBnepo's on NY. MADMANI even looks like a 1960's Klingon.

Meanwhile in the real world, Bill Clinton DEMANDS more of his guy-time on Jeffmass Island be revealed. Isn't that what the world needs now? more pictures of him in the blue dress pointing his finger at us?

No, not Remain Klingon -- FREE CUBA without firing a shot. Make Cuba the 51st state and there will be weath beyond dreams of avarice which will sweep across the Gulf of America and propel Rubio to be Prez...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (vUKOt)

132 Maybe along with Greenland we can buy Cuba? I do like the old cars in photos.

Cucker seems to be really going batsh*t and speeding his insanity up daily. I would find it entertaining if I bothered to watch him, which I don't.

Thanks, Ace, for watching for me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (WONhk)

133
Where did he go?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (fd80v)

I don't know, but he's not here to take are of ASS and his inane comments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

134 The Average overnight temps in Cuber for December is 68-70 degrees. Perfect sleeping weather according to the SCIENCE!
Good job WSJ.

Posted by: DBCooper at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (+daAW)

135 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (2fdLC)

136 Prolly humid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (kT/XV)

137 I like that James Bond (Die Another Day) with North Korean villains going to Cuba to get their DNA mangled, to turn themselves into white German guys! Maggie Smith's son played the white version of the main villain. I liked it !

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)

138 I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

---------------

Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)

139 *hope that was not a spoiler for those who haven't seen it yet

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)

140 Cool, I guess I'm an AoS Isolationatist, then.

I don't care about the foreigners, or their shitty wars. And I don't want my predatory government using them as an excuse for endless graft, especially when my kids could well be swept up in it - it's not as if they'll benefit from the scam under any circumstances, and they could certainly suffer for it.

I don't care about the foreigners and their gay ass, fucked up economies. I don't want us absorbing these foreigners simply *because* they have no motivation and want to take something instead of make something.

I don't care about these foreigners and their petty tribal loyalties, or their religious commitments, or their insistence on their own questionable values.

Their food isn't good enough to justify all that stupid bullshit, and 2am Thai food isn't a real big motivator for me or my family.

If you care about these foreigners and their foreign bullshit so much, then go live in one of their foreign countries, & improve their foreign lives, and stop bothering me about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (BI5O2)

141 During the Obama reign of terror USAID tried to set up a social media platform like Twitter in Cooba. The plan was to get young people hooked on it and then start feeding anti-communist stuff to influence the youngins.

Didn't work nearly as well there as it did when Obama controlled social media in the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (viF8m)

142 Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

Then, Tucker can get property closer to the US!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

143 I just want the coups to succeed and not leave us saddled with basket cases that we have to occupy and keep on life support.

Nah, we will use the same old formula the US has been using for generations:

• Go invade and tear apart and destabilize some country most people couldn't find on a map.
• Give them endless stream of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to "rebuild"
• watch as Our Betters mysteriously fall into new found generational wealth

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (c3sdc)

144 Cool, I guess I'm an AoS Isolationatist, then.

I don't care about the foreigners, or their shitty wars. And I don't want my predatory government using them as an excuse for endless graft, especially when my kids could well be swept up in it - it's not as if they'll benefit from the scam under any circumstances, and they could certainly suffer for it.

I don't care about the foreigners and their gay ass, fucked up economies. I don't want us absorbing these foreigners simply *because* they have no motivation and want to take something instead of make something.

I don't care about these foreigners and their petty tribal loyalties, or their religious commitments, or their insistence on their own questionable values.

Their food isn't good enough to justify all that stupid bullshit, and 2am Thai food isn't a real big motivator for me or my family.

If you care about these foreigners and their foreign bullshit so much, then go live in one of their foreign countries, & improve their foreign lives, and stop bothering me about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (BI5O2)

X2

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (dK+Kv)

145 WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)

You sending your kids first, right? Right?
Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM

Somewhat related, a mom from Turkey was at the window next to mine. Her 18 yr-old son was getting his learners permit. DMV employee informed him that he'd have to sign up for Selective Service. Once they explained to mom what that was, she freaked right out. After a while I intervened with a brief history of the draft, with a particular focus on which President ended it, and which one brought back the registration requirement. She wasn't entirely convinced, but I think the kid was able to get his permit...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (nbLIj)

146 Poor Tucker Carlson. Where will he go in the Emirates when he gets the urge to do a little trout fishing in the Rockies?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (nljXp)

147 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (PWcY+)

148 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

I'm going to need more detail...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (Riz8t)

149 The SS Morro Castle plied the waters NY-Havana in the early 30s. Caught fire and beached in NJ. Loss of 137 lives. Many people made the trip to see the hulk until it was hauled off for scrap.

Posted by: Vacation Getaway at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (oftw2)

150
Rubio has a lot to do with this stragerizing. Little Marco grew up to be one hell of a wartime consigliere.

What you're seeing here with Trump 2.0, Trump unleashed, is using American power, military and economic to actually further American power and interests. As opposed to pissing away our blood and treasure on neocon type nation building shit and "for the good of all the world" shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (w6EFb)

151 Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)

Latest survey came out (Blake Neff of TPUSA posted it) - and according to Americans the greatest threat facing American is ...Radical Islam. Cucker is in danger of being unfriended by Qatar's royal family!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

152 128 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there...

Think of all the new Amazon/Prime and Netflix subscribers exports of the cigars alone would produce the first round of infrastructure repair and build out, and then the serious growth would being -- once they overcome that laziness that has tolerated such diminishing returns and dismal state: A WORLD SAFE FOR SOCIALISM!

forWAR'd:MADMANI Futile entreaty: Remain Klingon!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (HDvbH)

153 Which district is the Carribbean in?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (kT/XV)

154 This is all Israel's fault.

Posted by: Qatucker Carlson at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (eRBFZ)

155 Socialism/Marxism came in close second.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

156 I care when they hurtle three hijacked airliners into office towers and a government building packed with people who did them no harm.

Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)

157 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (2fdLC)

Are you saying that we CAN'T "hang them all?"

*stomps off in protest*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)

158 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

I'm going to need more detail...
Posted by: Archimedes

Moar bewbs

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dAOkg)

159 > Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?
------------
It's only Monday. Holiday week too. They'll come around to it soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (NwnyJ)

160 From Google AI:

"Curing Cuba's energy problem requires a multi-pronged approach: immediate stabilization through plant repairs and securing fuel (oil from allies like Mexico/Russia), accelerated renewable deployment (solar, wind, hydro) with international backing, and long-term economic reform, as deep systemic issues hinder investment and fuel self-sufficiency, ultimately transitioning from aging thermal plants to a diversified, green energy mix with foreign help."

There. I note, no mention of political reform.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (XeU6L)

161 The cruise ships will only stop at Cuba to dump their waste tanks.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

162 What does post collapse collapse look like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (kT/XV)

163 This term, we settle all family business.

Posted by: Il Donaldo at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (eRBFZ)

164 Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)

Latest survey came out (Blake Neff of TPUSA posted it) - and according to Americans the greatest threat facing American is ...Radical Islam. Cucker is in danger of being unfriended by Qatar's royal family!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

Good news is that once his Islamic brothers chop his head off, he won't go blabbing to the police about it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (dK+Kv)

165 Anyone else with yahoo mail getting the "could not load mail, try again later" alert?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (Y1sOo)

166 The cruise ships will only stop at Cuba to dump their waste tanks.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

Flies gotta eat, same as Cubans.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (dK+Kv)

167 Arrest that orange man!

Posted by: President James Boasberg at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (eRBFZ)

168 Another upsetting piece of news to Cucker, only 13% do not view Israel as an ally, the rest *does math - 87% view Israel as either top or one of.

(Blake is posting TPUSA poll attendees)

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (g47mK)

169 With this embargo going on, soon the Venezuelans are going to start running out of food and all of their zoos are already out of meat from the last time communism failed to provide for the people.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (PWcY+)

170 2 for the price of one! I've been watching this one for a while, the key to Cuba's survival - and they haven't gotten any.

Cuba should have collapsed when the Soviet Union collapsed, but they've always found someone to prop them up. First it was the Euro's, who knows why, then Chavez and Maduro took over being their sugar daddies.

Fatal weakness - their entire energy grid depends on the oil shipped in from Venezuela, because they've got ancient, decaying oil powered electricity generators and nothing else. If they go down (and they crashed 4 times just this last year) then the grid for the entire island goes down, and stays down.
And when that happens food production and distribution goes to zero, and they people won't have anything left to eat except each other. And that's really much of an exagerration.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (uWKK8)

171 >>> 154 This is all Israel's fault.
Posted by: Qatucker Carlson at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (eRBFZ)

Right! It was the Jooz! All of it!!!

Posted by: see eye ay at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (ULPxl)

172 Which district is the Carribbean in?
Posted by: Boss Moss
-------

I can answer that.

Posted by: James Monroe at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

173 >>Anyone else with yahoo mail getting the "could not load mail, try again later" alert?

Yahoo email? Ok boomer.

Yea, mine's down too.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (viF8m)

174 What's nuts is we've now got a contiguous alliance of anticommie governments crossing the southern part of the Americas: Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay.
Peru is a wild card, last I looked the presnitrice of that dunghole was elected as a Leftist, and since then has just ruled as a crook in cahoots with a nonLeft parliament. So her opposition might end up being Shining Path tiers of angry.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (sDWtc)

175 What does post collapse collapse look like?
Posted by: Boss Moss

As bad as Cuber is now or will be after the final collapse, it's still better than Somalia. And Detroit.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (cxFcK)

176 How do you figure they wrap up Pluribus in one more episode?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (kT/XV)

177 >>The cruise ships will only stop at Cuba to dump their waste tanks.

That would ruin Haiti's Economy.

Cruise Ship Waste Tanks are their biggest Import.

Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (W23D2)

178 With this embargo going on, soon the Venezuelans are going to start running out of food and all of their zoos are already out of meat from the last time communism failed to provide for the people.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (PWcY+)

REAL communism to the rescue!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (dK+Kv)

179 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM

I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)

180 Moar bewbs

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dAOkg)

This guy gets it.

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (2fdLC)

181 Back to Cuba, better piece of real estate than fkng Gaza.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (g47mK)

182 How about we invite the Soros family to move to Cuba and take over from the Castro-ites, and they can let everyone out of jail there, instead of here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (eRBFZ)

183 What does post collapse collapse look like?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Haiti, since the French pulled out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (XeU6L)

184 There. I note, no mention of political reform.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (XeU6L)

One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (npFr7)

185 Thanks, Jack.

Posted by: one hour sober boomer at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (Y1sOo)

186 >>> 179 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM

I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)

Wanna bet?

Posted by: JUDGE Boasburg at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (ULPxl)

187 Now do the UK.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)

188 "With this embargo going on, soon the Venezuelans are going to start running out of food and all of their zoos are already out of meat from the last time communism failed to provide for the people.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks "

The last ones to go are always the penguins.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (vFG9F)

189 8 "Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating."

How is Cuba paying for the oil?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

By sending secret police and thugs to Venezuela to help Maduro keep the local population beaten into submission. Not kidding - Cuba is absolutely broke, they have no foreign exchange at all. Their sugar production is now the lowest its been in 100 years, since they can't afford fertilizer or diesel to run any tractors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (uWKK8)

190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)

191 It's worse than just that. The CCP is building ports through out the Caribbean. Which is leading to possible CCP naval intrusion with dual-purpose vessels. The Monroe Doctrine needs to be enforced to a T.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (mlg/3)

192 I rather secure Cuba's security than Ukraine.

Drop a nice nuclear power plant next to Gitmo.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (cS1cw)

193 One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (npFr7)

Russia doesn't have nearly as much money to throw around as they used to. Certainly not the kind it would take to build a couple of free nukes to give to Cuba.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (uWKK8)

194
One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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AI is the land of green tea-sipping lotus eaters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (XeU6L)

195 My anti-communism boner is a-throbbin'.

Posted by: Suck it, Guevarans and Castroites at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (TbWk/)

196 I read somewhere recently that the nephew of Raul and Fidel Castro is about to become Cuba's leader. I hope he's in charge when the government collapses. Eff that family in particular

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (MoRvC)

197 The phrase "Comiendo al pinguino" (eating the penguin) is a Latin-American expression for the ultimate outcome of Socialism.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (vFG9F)

198 Russia's only interest in Cuba is/was the proximity to the U.S.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (XeU6L)

199 I am not carrying water for Maduro or Venezuela. Bad things happen to bad people and I am okay with that.

But James Comey did more damage to our precious democracy than Venezuela. And he's living it up and laughing at us.

He will be back to piss in our Cheerios again.

Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (NlEaG)

200 191 It's worse than just that. The CCP is building ports through out the Caribbean. Which is leading to possible CCP naval intrusion with dual-purpose vessels. The Monroe Doctrine needs to be enforced to a T.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (mlg/3)

Exactly! Which is why THIS is the time to sink both Venezuelan and Cuban governments now; with the political changes going on in the rest of SA, that could kick the Chinese out of the entire western hemisphere for a generation or more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (uWKK8)

201 >>> 187 Now do the UK.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)

Not our hemisphere.

... otoh, maybe whoever follows OrangeManBad can invade them and make them a colony of ours.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (ULPxl)

202 Tucker was en fuego during Amfest when he responded to Binny Shatpicodick, so i couldnt understand why everyone was on his ass

Then he went off on a tangent in some crazy spiel about how poor muslims are treated

...oh

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (HYKHz)

203 >>It's worse than just that. The CCP is building ports through out the Caribbean. Which is leading to possible CCP naval intrusion with dual-purpose vessels. The Monroe Doctrine needs to be enforced to a T.

China is by far Venezuela's biggest customer for oil. The secondary affects of taking down Maduro are huge.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (viF8m)

204 I read somewhere recently that the nephew of Raul and Fidel Castro is about to become Cuba's leader. I hope he's in charge when the government collapses. Eff that family in particular
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Do you mean Trudeau?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)

205 Make Cuba Great Again

CUBA LIBRE !!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (YubK1)

206 Another upsetting piece of news to Cucker, only 13% do not view Israel as an ally, the rest *does math - 87% view Israel as either top or one of.

Interestingly, that is about the same ratio of people (87%) who rely on discovering their desires from someone else.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xE0sV)

207 190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)

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Putin is bold, but not stupid.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (PWcY+)

208 An end to Scandi Agression in our time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (kT/XV)

209 >>> 204 I read somewhere recently that the nephew of Raul and Fidel Castro is about to become Cuba's leader. I hope he's in charge when the government collapses. Eff that family in particular
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Do you mean Trudeau?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)

Can we offer Justin $3k USD to move to Havana?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (ULPxl)

210

Where was Marco Rubio when Cuba collapsed??

Posted by: Tomorrow's Headlines Today at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (g47mK)

211 190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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With what Navy?

Lmfao good luck hoss.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (5aZAZ)

212 Yes, China is the biggest one using Venezuela to subvert us, and get strongholds in our hemisphere. Trump is not going to allow that to happen. This is asserting our control of our hemisphere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (w6EFb)

213
1. Trump ruins Cuba
2. Cuba becomes a US Territory
3. Democrats take Congress
4. Democrats make Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Washington DC 4 new States.
5. 8 More Democrat Senators and at least 4 more Democrats in the House.
6. Trump Impeached.
7. Vance Impeached.
8. Johnson switches parties to Democrat, and Resigns.
9. Hakeem Jeffries Sworn in as President of the United States.
10. Jeffries DOJ indicts, prosecutes, and convicts Donald Trump.
11. Trump dies in Prison.

Posted by: bill cuck kristol at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (CWez5)

214 Little Marco for Shogun of Cuba.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (jc0TO)

215 Yea right.......

Cuba has been on the brink since 1959....

Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (J9q9v)

216 nterestingly, that is about the same ratio of people (87%) who rely on discovering their desires from someone else.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xE0sV)

HUH?? that was TPUSA poll, what are you raging about, boomer ?

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (g47mK)

217
You remember early on that business with the Panama Canal. And Marco went down with an offer they couldn't refuse? That was all about stopping Chicom control of the Panama Canal, which they were gaining.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (w6EFb)

218
How'd I do?

Did I capture the spirit of Cuck Kristol idiotic pipe-dream fantasy list-of-events?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (CWez5)

219 Poopdeck Bill.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (kT/XV)

220 China has become one of Cuba’s largest trading partners and benefactors. They have been using Cuba as a military surveillance point.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (cn09p)

221 Do you mean Trudeau?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)

He's only a nephew to Raul.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (npFr7)

222 Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (HYKHz)

The analogy that he would assist his murdering brother escape capture and smuggle him out of the country didn't bother you too?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (KDPiq)

223 Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

I confess I'm beginning to like the cut of this Carlson fellows jib. And his choice in neckwear is on point.

Posted by: George Will at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (kgG3s)

224 Maybe the Cubans will pull a Che and shoot their leaders in the back. One can dream.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (P7vXf)

225 207 190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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Putin is bold, but not stupid.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (PWcY+)

Not to mention that the Ukrainians have managed to sink most of his boats.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)

226 Ice axe?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:23 PM (kT/XV)

227 In December, it is 80 degrees in Havana.

Hardly sweltering.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 22, 2025 04:23 PM (vTTFR)

228 Boy, am I glad that Janet Reno got me back here!

Posted by: Eli�n Gonz�lez at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (XeU6L)

229 >>In December, it is 80 degrees in Havana.

In August the entire area is hotter than Satan's ball sack.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (viF8m)

230 Hegseth and Trump are scheduled to make some kind of an announcement. Cuba LIbre ??

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (g47mK)

231 A Coca Cola goes a long way in Cuba.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (kT/XV)

232 HUH?? that was TPUSA poll, what are you raging about, boomer ?

Mimetic Theory posits that the vast majority of people obtain their desires from external sources (eg. propaganda, influencers, culture, etc.)

Come to your conclusions.

BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.

Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (U4c/V)

233 Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (5aZAZ

We aren't blockading Cuba. A navy is not required to ship a tanker of oil to Cuba from any country other than Venezuela.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (KDPiq)

234 >>>China is by far Venezuela's biggest customer for oil. The secondary affects of taking down Maduro are huge.
Posted by: JackStraw
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All west coast South American countries, excepting Colombia have voted socialists out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (YubK1)

235 The analogy that he would assist his murdering brother escape capture and smuggle him out of the country didn't bother you too?

*************

Missed that one, he says so much crazy stuff its hard to keep up

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (HYKHz)

236 Well, I guess this answers the question as to why Rubio all of a sudden became so diligent and "dependable" after being a little bit of a git for a number of years.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (dIske)

237
Fake News found out the name of a Venezuelan tanker currently being harrassed by Trump -- the "Bella I"

It's very, very, very important you know the name of the tanker. Fake News thinks it will "humanize" the brown-skinned tanker, I suppose.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (CWez5)

238 Travis Kelce is pregnant!

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (vFG9F)

239 156 I care when they hurtle three hijacked airliners into office towers and a government building packed with people who did them no harm.

Had Bill Clinton done back in '92 in Mogadishu (viz BlackhawkDown) what Somalia accomplished in a week nearly a decade later -- there factually would have been no OBL, NO 911, NO FOREVER WAR.

Why? because on that day the coms were receiving Arabic, not not local dialect, nor the local warlord -- CLINTON KNEW.

Same with the Rwandan Genocide, so many bodies were dumped into the bodies satellite photos showed the course of rivers change -- CLINTON NEW.

What the world needs now, according to Clinton, more Epstein disclosure -- what did him in that Blue Dress pointing a finger at us really mean? doesn't it deserve the same attention as Mona Lisa's smile? -- CLINTON KNOWS.

Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time -- Bill Clinton'06

it would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people "in a way that we hate." -- Bill Clinton'06

" I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" -- ctHILLARY, 2025

Deplorable Who?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (Vs2Bx)

240 Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (U4c/V)

so you are in the 13%; ok, just say so, no need to pretend you have some kind of special knowledge

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (g47mK)

241 The Herd of Independent Thinkers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (jc0TO)

242 >>>BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.

Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Last night the kids were talking about how wonderful the 80s were. They didn't build that Boomers did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (YubK1)

243 Id be good with Trudeau going to Cuba as long as he takes Katy Perry with him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (MoRvC)

244 so you are in the 13%; ok, just say so, no need to pretend you have some kind of special knowledge

Posted by: runner

Hitting the bottle rather early today, eh?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (U4c/V)

245 186 >>> 179 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM

I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)

Wanna bet?
Posted by: JUDGE Boasburg
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Can't. Collateral estoppel. If you read carefully, each of the tankers seized have judicial seizure warrants issued for prior violations of international law. So you can't judge shop to prevent it as it has already been adjudicated.

From above, "The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion," a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson. "It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order."

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (WDjG6)

246
We aren't blockading Cuba. A navy is not required to ship a tanker of oil to Cuba from any country other than Venezuela.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (KDPiq)
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How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)

247 The original article mentioned that Cuba has lost a quarter of its population over the last several years, some to the US, most to SA and the Caribbean nations.

What they don't say is the demographics of this movement - it's not children or old people or the sick or the unfit who are leaving - they don't have the ability. Those leaving have been the majority of working age adults who would be expected to keep the country running on a day to day basis. Even the ambitious criminal class has left, because there's nothing to steal there anymore.
Cuba today is a dying island populated mainly by the elderly, the chronically sick, and the mentally infirm. The ones who couldn't leave.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)

248 Hitting the bottle rather early today, eh?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (U4c/V)

not everyone live your life, boomer

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)

249 And no, Russia is not going to start floating oil tankers to Cuba. It's not economical and it's also comically retarded.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (5aZAZ)

250 >>All west coast South American countries, excepting Colombia have voted socialists out.

I'm a big fan of South America. Beautiful area and if they can get some good government it could be boomtown. Place is packed with minerals and other goodies.

Chile is a very cool country. I could hang there.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (viF8m)

251 Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)

Are you saying we are blockading Cuba?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq)

252 Id be good with Trudeau going to Cuba as long as he takes Katy Perry with him

The Brit fella who used to be married to her said she farted. A lot.

Nasty bitch.

Posted by: Fat Titties Though at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (m8zKa)

253 We've set Cuba free 2xs. This time we keep it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (YubK1)

254 Vegetarian?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (kT/XV)

255 That is a solution! Trudeau-Castro runs for president of Cuba!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (g47mK)

256 Are you saying we are blockading Cuba?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq)
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No, I'm not.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (5aZAZ)

257 Maggie Smith's son played the white version of the main villain. I liked it !

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)

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We really liked the TV series Black Sails and Toby Stephenson was good in that; of course, they had to eventually make his character be gay.

The great Ray Stevenson -- who played Titus Pullo in Rome -- was in that as well. IIRC, he played Blackbeard.

Another great actor killed prematurely by the clot shot like the great -- and extremely fit -- Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)

258
Things getting sport in LA. A mother chases down and rams the vehicle of a gang of thieves that tried to break in her house while her children were playing inside:

https://is.gd/MBxDvX

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (w6EFb)

259 We keep Cuba but we keep Democrat politicians out.
They are the one's that 'help' Puerto Rico.
Cubans don't need that help.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (YubK1)

260 Watching the left lose their marbles on steroids because Cuba's communist government collapsed would be a chefs kiss for the first year of Trump's second term. Trump going to Cuba and yelling " Cuba Libre" would be epic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (MoRvC)

261 246 How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.

submarines.

*touches side of nose*

Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (v3pYe)

262 168 "the rest *does math"

TWEEEEET!
On the defense, #168 Math, Encroachment.
15 yard penalty. Automatic 1st down

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (WI7ox)

263 I saw Cucker Tarlson repeatedly tormented by the Jews of Barsoom in John Carter of Mars in '81.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (nljXp)

264 How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)

I'm sure the only real obstacle to Russia's sending assistance to Cuba is Putin's complete lack of interest in getting involved there. Why piss off the American Eagle, and spur it to attack the Bear in the Ukraine?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (npFr7)

265 Cuba today is a dying island populated mainly by the elderly, the chronically sick, and the mentally infirm. The ones who couldn't leave.

So it's like New York City.

Posted by: 53rd and 3rd at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (m8zKa)

266 246 How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.

submarines.

*touches side of nose*
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM

Milchkuh

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (jc0TO)

267 Mimetic Theory posits that the vast majority of people obtain their desires from external sources (eg. propaganda, influencers, culture, etc.)

Come to your conclusions.

BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.

Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Yes and no. Initial preferences can be set as such but real world personal experiences trump whatever blather is out there over time. Same reason that massive control over society and propaganda couldn't save the Soviet Union--too many people knew of all the regime failures.

The idea of image and news control is alluring to shitheads on powertrips but it doesn't produce lasting effects on most of the population over time. Experiences do. Former pollster, a guy named Yanklelovich, calls this coming to public judgment and it is true for all societies in the long run.

Leaders can't outspin reality for long periods of time, it always ends up destroying their credibility and right to rule when rectification occurs.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (WDjG6)

268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK8)

269 We really liked the TV series Black Sails and Toby Stephenson was good in that; of course, they had to eventually make his character be gay.

The great Ray Stevenson -- who played Titus Pullo in Rome -- was in that as well. IIRC, he played Blackbeard.

Another great actor killed prematurely by the clot shot like the great -- and extremely fit -- Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)

agree, it started well, then everyone became ghey. Lance Reddick dies of heart problems, heart disease.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (g47mK)

270 250 Chile is a very cool country. I could hang there.

lots of carrots in chile. better than those in richese.

Posted by: third stage guild navigator at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (v3pYe)

271 We've set Cuba free 2xs. This time we keep it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (YubK1)

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Make it a Floridian Island.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:34 PM (FH6GK)

272 Good news on Peru: they impeached their turd of a president and on 10 October they got a new one. Jose Jeri, who is center-right.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:34 PM (sDWtc)

273 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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With what Navy?

Really? Yet another Cuban Missile Crisis? To what end?

Its much easier and effective to continue to fund the internal destruction of the US and Europe through purchased politicians, cyber attacks against infrastructure, and a myriad of other asymmetric warfare that has been going on.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (U4c/V)

274 258
Things getting sport in LA. A mother chases down and rams the vehicle of a gang of thieves that tried to break in her house while her children were playing inside:

https://is.gd/MBxDvX
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Reason 999 to drive a beefy vehicle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (YubK1)

275 232 HUH?? that was TPUSA poll, what are you raging about, boomer ?
...
Mimetic Theory... Come to your conclusions.

It has become a full operational Hyperstition, a strategic political science (and in this case, the very cause of LIB Strategic Insanity) -- an engineered self fulfilling fiction -- why the LIBs ceaseless quest for the unearned remains forever Ceaseless: because the value illicitly retains no value.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell
There will be no peace as long as Kirk (charlie) lives -- or even if he dies, or even remember,ed or forever whatever....

forWAR'd !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (KDKen)

276
Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (w6EFb)

277 OT: Washington St. Cougars are beating up the Aggies of Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. I had to post this very important information. You're Welcome! There are some WSU fans around here, though they post later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

278 265 Cuba today is a dying island populated mainly by the elderly, the chronically sick, and the mentally infirm. The ones who couldn't leave.

So it's like New York City.
Posted by: 53rd and 3rd at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (m8zKa)

_________________________

I'm sorry, but you guys are woefully misinformed. Paul Krugman and the NYT's assures me that Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (dIske)

279 I forgot about Ray Stevenson ! His last role was in Ahsoka, played Baylan Skoll. Did a good job with it. They had to look for a replacement.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (g47mK)

280 238 Travis Kelce is pregnant!
Posted by: for

DAMN IT! How the hell are we supposed to rig the Super Bowl now!?!??! They're already eliminated from the playoffs! Guess we'll just have to "eliminate" another team to slide them in...

Posted by: Roger Goodell at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (8yrSp)

281 Rescue Plan for Cuba: Government collapses, don't have the American government spend a penny on it. Instead, give the entire island to Donald Trump and his family as their personal property, to do with as they wish.

Within 10 years that place will be the Glory of the Caribbean!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (uWKK8)

282
The mother is smart. She says she didn't intend to ram the vehicle, she was just running on adrenaline. They may or may not be true, but it's smart thing to say, especially in CA.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (w6EFb)

283 I'm sure the only real obstacle to Russia's sending assistance to Cuba is Putin's complete lack of interest in getting involved there. Why piss off the American Eagle, and spur it to attack the Bear in the Ukraine?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (npFr7)
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That and the fact that Cuba is 90 miles from a US Naval base and if anyone really wanted to test it we'd smoke check anyone that F'd around in about five minute, but mostly also that.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (5aZAZ)

284 276
Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.
Posted by: publius

Issue there is that Southern Hemisphere covers only their half of the sky. Northern Hemisphere has stars too. Hawaiian grifters don't want us looking at them.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (sDWtc)

285 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

286 There are some WSU fans around here, though they post later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

That's because they are slow and went to a cow college.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)

287 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK

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"The Anti Industrial Left: Return of The Primitive."

Is there nothing collectivism can't destroy? /rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (FH6GK)

288 Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (w6EFb)

Mt. McKinley ought to be a good spot for an observatory. Drive a tunnel into the mountain at the base, then make a vertical shaft all the way to the peak. Who knows, you might hit some valuable minerals on the way there, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (npFr7)

289 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (w6EFb)

Brave mom.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (Nx5jP)

290 The Kansas City Chiefs are MOVING! Across the river to KC, Kansas. That should put a smile on their faggy billionaire owner.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (cxFcK)

291 213 1. Trump ruins Cuba
2. Cuba becomes a US Territory
3. Democrats take Congress
4. Democrats make Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Washington DC 4 new States.
5. 8 More Democrat Senators and at least 4 more Democrats in the House.
6. Trump Impeached.
7. Vance Impeached.
8. Johnson switches parties to Democrat, and Resigns.
9. Hakeem Jeffries Sworn in as President of the United States.
10. Jeffries DOJ indicts, prosecutes, and convicts Donald Trump.
11. Trump dies in Prison.

you forgot the step where hillary becomes president

Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (v3pYe)

292 268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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As Maggie Thatcher said about socialism, "Sooner or later you run out of other people's money to spend."

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (WDjG6)

293 72 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (RuTUS)

294 I'm sorry, but you guys are woefully misinformed. Paul Krugman and the NYT's assures me that Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet.
___

Well, he was right about the internet being just a fad.

Posted by: Parker at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (qUkBO)

295 >>Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.

I took a flight from Rio to Santiago. They made us sign a release in the event of an unscheduled landing on the Andes.

It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)

296 268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Second look at the French?

Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

297 277 OT: Washington St. Cougars are beating up the Aggies of Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

well, it wouldn't be aggie football if they didn't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: anachronda, usu class of '86 at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (v3pYe)

298 290 The Kansas City Chiefs are MOVING! Across the river to KC, Kansas. That should put a smile on their faggy billionaire owner.
Posted by: Blutarski
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All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (WDjG6)

299 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?
Posted by: m

Probably at a festive Yuletide Prometheus convention.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

300 300

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)

301 Yes and no. Initial preferences can be set as such but real world personal experiences trump whatever blather is out there over time. Same reason that massive control over society and propaganda couldn't save the Soviet Union--too many people knew of all the regime failures.

I'm not addressing those things that fall under Mass Formation Psychosis.

For example, where did this quest for bling come from? How does one form of music seem to connect to some cultures different than others?

From a theological perspective, Mimetic Theory provides the vocabulary to understand the interaction of spiritual influence beyond the Western materialistic way of justifying Free Will and temptation and Following God's Will.

in terms of the infatuation with Israel, Mimetic Theory play a strong role in manipulating Evangelicals into an irrational practical worship of the state of Israel.

From one who has studied propaganda and Mimetic Theory, the spike in ham fisted propaganda and emotional blackmail is so obvious to me but has blinded the sychophants to either a strong pro or strong anti Israel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (U4c/V)

302 >>> That's because they are slow and went to a cow college.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)

There are cows in the Pacific North West? Ok, I see they do @ 1.29% US.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (3uBP9)

303 suffering from spreading disease
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Yeah, but its a good thing they have better medical care than the US.

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (krQz2)

304 I took a flight from Rio to Santiago. They made us sign a release in the event of an unscheduled landing on the Andes.

It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)

Did they hand out little airline bottles of hot sauce, in case you crash-landed and had to resort to cannibalism?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (npFr7)

305 293 72 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?
Posted by: m
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Busy guy right now with his own YT channel, highly recommended if you like movies, job search, and kiddies around Christmas family events.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (WDjG6)

306 Newest staunch defender of Maduro ? Take a guess. Go ahead.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)

307 296 268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Second look at the French?
Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

"No French."

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)

308 The Paolo, he knows, how you say, about tunnels and shafts.

Posted by: Paolo at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (CDDVV)

309 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

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Zombie Sammy Davis, Jr. hardest hit ...

"I don't care what da white man say ...
Santa Claus was a Black Jew slave trader."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (FH6GK)

310 Newest staunch defender of Maduro ? Take a guess. Go ahead.
Posted by: runner

Candy O?

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

311 >>That and the fact that Cuba is 90 miles from a US Naval base

Cuba is also 0 miles from a US Naval base

Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)

312 There are cows in the Pacific North West? Ok, I see they do @ 1.29% US.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (3uBP9)

Quite a few, the more east you go, where WSU is located.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (dK+Kv)

313 That is right.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (kT/XV)

314 Candy O?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

not yet....

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

315 I would assume most know that Russia is still a big trading partner with Cuba. Is our navy Russian freighters out of the Caribbean?

There was also an agreement with Russia in 2023 to provide oil annually . Shipments were made but have now been sporadic for a number of reasons.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (KDPiq)

316 And I don't much care about intellectual theories about how societies work, or how people think, or any of that high-flown nonsense.

What is going to increase the quality of life in America? How are America's interests served by this trade deal or military alliance?

That's it. That's the only question that matters, and it's not meant for Aztecs, or Qataris, or anyone else.

It's about us, and nobody else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (BI5O2)

317
For example, where did this quest for bling come from? How does one form of music seem to connect to some cultures different than others?

From a theological perspective, Mimetic Theory provides the vocabulary to understand the interaction of spiritual influence beyond the Western materialistic way of justifying Free Will and temptation and Following God's Will.

Does mimetic theory explain those people who Just Got Dat Boogie Rythm?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (uWKK8)

318 The Kansas City Chiefs are MOVING! Across the river to KC, Kansas. That should put a smile on their faggy billionaire owner.
Posted by: Blutarski
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All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.
Posted by: whig

Yup. And I, for one, am glad to have their hands out of my pocket.

Posted by: MkY at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (q6tQZ)

319
Hey! I are a proud gradU8 of Clempson Cow Collidge. Don't be dissin' cow collidges.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)

320 Newest staunch defender of Maduro ? Take a guess. Go ahead.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)

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Tucker?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (FH6GK)

321 nood something

Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v3pYe)

322
Mt. McKinley ought to be a good spot for an observatory. Drive a tunnel into the mountain at the base, then make a vertical shaft all the way to the peak. Who knows, you might hit some valuable minerals on the way there, too.

Which would be cheaper and more effective?

Giving Elon Musk the contract to dig your Mt McKinley observatory or to launch one into space?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (PVBkQ)

323 >>>All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.

Posted by: whig

>The Chicago Bears have entered the chat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (nljXp)

324 Cuba is also 0 miles from a US Naval base
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)

"I can't gitmo naval action."

Posted by: Fidel Jagger at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (npFr7)

325 Would Cubans want to be a US territory?

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (RuTUS)

326 We keep Cuba but we keep Democrat politicians out.
They are the one's that 'help' Puerto Rico.
Cubans don't need that help.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
......

Make it part of Florida.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v0R5T)

327 >>Did they hand out little airline bottles of hot sauce, in case you crash-landed and had to resort to cannibalism?

No, but I did make a point of checking out my fellow passengers to see which ones might make a tasty snack.

Proper Planning and all that.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (viF8m)

328 in terms of the infatuation with Israel, Mimetic Theory play a strong role in manipulating Evangelicals into an irrational practical worship of the state of Israel.

From one who has studied propaganda and Mimetic Theory, the spike in ham fisted propaganda and emotional blackmail is so obvious to me but has blinded the sychophants to either a strong pro or strong anti Israel.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Eh, I think Muzzie past actions and their behavior over here have as much impact over time thinking Israel is a friend. Terrorist assholes tend to get a bad rep over time along with a religion that encourages such across the globe. In comparison, Jews haven't done such in Western societies and been far more likelty to be victims than abuser.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (WDjG6)

329 Tucker?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (FH6GK)

no, another female

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (g47mK)

330 >> Hawaiian grifters don't want us looking at them.

What is that controversy about some sacred ground or some shit?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

331 305 293 72 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?
Posted by: m
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Busy guy right now with his own YT channel, highly recommended if you like movies, job search, and kiddies around Christmas family events.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (WDjG6)

Maybe he'll stop by to say hello.

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

332 319
Hey! I are a proud gradU8 of Clempson Cow Collidge. Don't be dissin' cow collidges.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)
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Is this serious? Cool if so. I also have an elite degree from Cow Collidge in upstate SC.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (5aZAZ)

333 321 nood something
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v3pYe)

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

334 I took a flight from Rio to Santiago. They made us sign a release in the event of an unscheduled landing on the Andes.

It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)

A promise not to eat fellow passengers?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (KDPiq)

335 Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)
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And Bosch.

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (krQz2)

336 Make it part of Florida.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v0R5T)
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Key South

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (5aZAZ)

337 All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (WDjG6)

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This is especially true for college sports.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (PWcY+)

338 Odysseus at the beach, addressing his crew:
"And now men, I call on you to join me as we begin our great odyssey. "
Sailor raises hand: "Excuse me, what's an Odyssey?"
Odysseus: "It is a long and difficult journey, so full of dangers that only the leader will survive."
Sailor: "Oh Okay thanks. Wait what???"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)

339 My son went to Cuba, among the 40 nations that he visited. Said Cuba was the creepiest. And he's been to Syria.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (wBaIH)

340 285 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.
Posted by: Bulg
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To be fair. If there were no Atlantic there would have been no Atlantic slave trade. Think of the poor sharks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (YubK1)

341 I would assume most know that Russia is still a big trading partner with Cuba.

It's not working out.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

342 We seem to have lost the value of "stability" in foreign policy. IOW, Cuba may be a communist shithole, but I don't want to make it our, post-communist shithole to rebuild, police, feed, etc etc

We should support the locals diplomatically, morally, etc. but I don't want to start "color revolutions" (or worse) in a way that Uncle Suger is going to be pressured to pick up the pieces. Enough with the post WWII Pax Americana Empire crap already.

Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)

343 341 I would assume most know that Russia is still a big trading partner with Cuba.

It's not working out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

what's killed that is that Cuba has nothing left to trade. They destroyed the sugar plantations, even the slave trade is down to the toothless ones with rickets.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)

344 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.
Posted by: Bulg

There is an African slave farm in there somewhere too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (/lPRQ)

345 We should support the locals diplomatically, morally, etc. but I don't want to start "color revolutions" (or worse) in a way that Uncle Suger is going to be pressured to pick up the pieces. Enough with the post WWII Pax Americana Empire crap already.
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)

There's a worse fate than revolution or civil war - and that is when a country lets itself grind so far down that it just collapses, and it's not worth it to anyone to come in and try to take it over because it's nothing but a money pit. This is how cities, once vibrant, just sink back into the jungles that were there before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)

346 what's killed that is that Cuba has nothing left to trade. They destroyed the sugar plantations, even the slave trade is down to the toothless ones with rickets.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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What's killed Cuba is communism.
Cuba has natural resources and the Holiday
tourist potential surpasses Hawaii.

Viva Cuba

CUBA LIBRE!!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (YubK1)

347 "in terms of the infatuation with Israel, Mimetic Theory play a strong role in manipulating Evangelicals into an irrational practical worship of the state of Israel."

Take your jew hating shit somewhere else

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (WI7ox)

348 CUBA LIBRE!!!
____

What's rhe best rum for a rum and coke?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)

349
Per Candace Owens...

I bet there were a few Jews you could find working as financial backers for the Atlantic flesh trade. It's a profitable business, it'll attract capital, and some will be Jews. But most of the peddlers in the Americas were Brits and Spaniards.

And of course, all the supply was provided by blacks and Arabs, many of whom grew fabulously rich from the trade.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (BI5O2)

350 Cuba could collapse too?

Yay.

Hardest hit? Karen Bass.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (RRCAT)

351 #31 — see: Manhattan Island...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (/RQ+2)

352 #34[9 the Atlantic slave trade was largely uphold by the upperclassmen of British society. They financed anonymous "foreign" ships even up to and beyond, well beyond, "legitimate" Trade...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (/RQ+2)

353 At least Tuca brings on folks that the establishment hates. I will always listen and then judge.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 22, 2025 06:26 PM (mNOhh)

354 Your constant whinging about TC is really getting old.

Posted by: Mav at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (FmhTN)

355 Muh Israel!!

Posted by: Mav at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (FmhTN)

356 It was Castro who introduced Chavez to Voting Machine Fraud, which was then spread worldwide by the CIA. including America.

Especially America.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (NaCHI)

357 354 Your constant whinging about TC is really getting old.
Posted by: Mav at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (FmhTN)

He can’t say much with your tongue so far down his throat.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (4786I)

358 We should support the locals diplomatically, morally, etc. but I don't want to start "color revolutions" (or worse) in a way that Uncle Suger is going to be pressured to pick up the pieces. Enough with the post WWII Pax Americana Empire crap already.
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)

Supporter number eight million on AoS of a whiny, toothless America.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 09:17 PM (4786I)

359 About that guy quoted...In 2020, Shannon, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."

Posted by: birddog at December 23, 2025 09:56 AM (s5LY2)

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